There’s no greater yada than a yada yada #nlpoli
The Nunatukavut are a group of aboriginal people living in Labrador. They used to be known as the Labrador Metis. In October 2003, Danny Williams told them – in writing…
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Managing Electricity Demand #nlpoli
Nalcor’s forecast for electricity demand on the island of Newfoundland doesn’t really show a massive increase over the next couple of decades. Earlier this year, Memorial University economist Jim Feehan…
Gander at the goosing #nlpoli
Apparently, your humble e-scribbler got on Steve Kent’s nerves. The Conservative politician and his friends have been bombarding Twitter and Open Line shows since the middle of July will all…
Some help for the St. John’s Board of Trade #nlpoli
…who have suddenly discovered that the provincial economy is in serious need of diversification: a 2010 series called the Fragile Economy. Staying the course (March 2010) Reductio ad argentum (April…
Repsol may sell New Brunswick LNG port #nlpoli
Spanish oil and gas company Repsol may be looking to sell its interest in the Saint John New Brunswick liquefied natural gas facility. The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal reported the…
The tone at the top – federal version #nlpoli
Marni Soupcoff has got it right about the campaign finance scandal currently swirling around federal intergovernmental affairs minister Peter Penashue (pronounced Pen-ah-shoe-ay). People should be concerned about the money Peter…
There’s reality and … #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to talk about reality on Monday. A reality check she called it: “Everybody sees what’s happening with the price of oil, and I see every day…
Reality Check: drops and buckets version #nlpoli
Via labradore, a chart that plots Conservative unsustainable public spending since 2003 with recently announced controls on discretionary spending. -srbp-
Magical Thinking and the Muskrat Falls Tax #nlpoli
Muskrat Falls seems to be intimately connected to magic, at least in some people’s minds. For a while there, the gang at Nalcor sounded like they had found a way…
More Muskrat Falls Sunk Cost #nlpoli
That $350 million in sunk costs from Monday morning’s post wasn’t the whole story, of course. You’ll find more detail – and lots more cash – documented in the public…
Rae backs Muskrat…sort of #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Big screaming CBC headline: Federal Liberals support Muskrat Falls project: Rae Then you read the story. “Newfoundland is rich in hydro-electricity, and it’s not right that hydro-electricity should be cooped…
Sunk Cost – Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The chart below is taken from a Nalcor information hand-out describing the project’s capital expenditures to the end of March 2011. What that covers are the various costs for engineering,…
Ya wanna know what stupid is? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
According to information supplied to the news media – and widely reported already – the helicopter from 444 Squadron used for a training flight than ended with a bit of…
Dazed and Confused: Swinimer version #nlpoli
You know things are bad when even the people who back Muskrat Falls without question start challenging stuff that has long ago been proven correct. The heir to the Moon…
New Page: The Ghost in the Turbines #nlpoli
Look up and you’ll see a new page: The Ghost in the Turbines. You’ll eventually find there all the major SRBP posts on Labrador hydroelectric development from the earliest days…
The Stuff We Don’t Know #nlpoli
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know…
Community Values, Part Deux #nlpoli
Political science grad student John Samms’ has lengthy post on the antics of local politicians on Twitter. To complain about the asinine behaviour of local politicians these days is like…
Felix Collins: laughingstock #nlpoli
labradore takes issue with a letter to the editor by justice minister Felix Collins. He systematically demonstrates that Collins’ claim about the “frivolous and vexatious” provisions in Bill 29 are…
Going down by the front end #nlpoli
In the late 1980s, the Progressive Conservative administration in Newfoundland and Labrador committed more than $11 million to a plan to grow cucumbers and tomatoes using hydroponic technology developed by…
Executive Politics and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
In this series, we are not concerned with whether or not the Muskrat Falls project is good or bad. That is a separate issue. Nor are we presenting information you…