The politics of table salt #nlpoli
Tom Hedderson would probably like a do-over. Responding to an opposition call for a ban on road-side pesticide use by Hedderson’s department, the minister compared the toxicity of the chemical…
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Thinking about Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
People in Nova Scotia are doing a lot of thinking about Muskrat Falls, so it seems. Here’s part of an opinion piece by Brendan Halley that appeared in the Thursday,…
That would be so cool… #nlpoli
All that stuff about peak oil, oil shortages and ever increasing oil prices? You know, the sort of stuff that some people claim justifies Muskrat Falls. Yeah, well maybe they…
Bench Mark #nlpoli
The names of two lawyers who might appear in an upcoming news release: James Walsh Lori Marshall -srbp-
Take Tom with a grain of salt #nlpoli
Apparently, a herbicide used by the provincial government is about as toxic as table salt. For those who missed it, here’s transportation minister Tom Hedderson explaining why the herbicide is…
August Muskrat Round-up #nlpoli
First up, there are lots of ways to make bad decisions. The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky did a fine job on Tuesday of pointing out that natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy…
Williams sides with Quebec on energy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Danny Williams always likes someone who stands up for his or her province. Well, likes them as long as the someone doing the standing up standing in the way of…
The Multiple Muskrat Falsehoods #nlpoli
Zack: Check it out, all about planets this month. Leonard: That’s an atom. Zack: Agree to disagree. That’s what I love about science, there’s no one right answer. Ya gotta…
The Farce just goes on and on… #nlpoli
The farce that is the provincial government’s effort to sell the Muskrat Falls project continues to roll along. There are no timelines, the Telegram tells us, or at least none…
A change might be as good as a rest #nlpoli
A sign of the problems plaguing Kathy Dunderdale’s aging Conservative administration and their dramatic fall in the polls: she’s punted her communications director and hired a new one. Lynn Hammond…
The cut-throat world of economics #nlpoli
Anyone who attended Wade Locke’s presentation on Muskrat Falls got a tiny glimpse of the vicious world that is modern academics. it came in the unusually large bit where Locke…
If Ontarians jumped off the wharf… #nlpoli
Ontarians subsidized electricity exports from their province to the tune of about $2.50 a kilowatt hour according to a recent report by the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy and…
Kathy’s Experts #nlpoli
Would you take advice on a megaproject from a company whose own megaproject is 86% over budget and 26 months behind schedule – and counting? ladies and gentleman: Manitoba Hydro…
A Big Tell on Muskrat Falls Exports #nlpoli
A meeting of the Eastern Canadian premiers and all the New England Governors and the provincial government here sends Keith Hutchings. Who? The minister in charge of the innovation and…
A finalized term sheet? #nlpoli
Nalcor and Emera signed a finalised term sheet to develop Muskrat Falls in November 2010. The next step was supposed to be negotiation of a final agreement between Nalcor and…
The Art of Budget Forecasting #nlpoli
The provincial government set its budget this year based on an oil price forecast of US$124 a barrel in 2012. As we move up on the midway point in the…
Those friggers from [insert name of province] #nlpoli
Anyone steeped in the whole Quebec-Newfoundland fight over hydro-electricity exports will look at the whole Alberta-British Columbia fight over oil exports and see the connections. Sure, they are there. The…
The Magic Number #nlpoli
“Nalcor’s position”, wrote the joint federal-provincial review panel on the Lower Churchill project, “was that up to 800 MW of energy from the Project would be required to meet provincial…
Demand Forecasts #nlpoli
Yesterday’s offhand reference to Nalcor’s electricity demand forecasts brought home a couple of points to your humble e-scribbler. The biggest one is that a great many people still do not…
NL wheeling power through Quebec #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From April 2009, here’s Kathy Dunderdale – then the province’s natural resources minister – quoted in a news release on an historic agreement that saw Nalcor wheeling electricity from Churchill…