All around in circles 2 #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
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All around in circles 2 #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
All around in circles #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
Reality Control #nlpoli
The Memory HoleNineteen eighty-four is popular these days. People think that the ideas in the book like the memory hole are modeled on communist or fascist dictatorships from the early…
Reality Control #nlpoli
The Memory HoleNineteen eighty-four is popular these days. People think that the ideas in the book like the memory hole are modeled on communist or fascist dictatorships from the early…
Reality Control #nlpoli
The Memory Hole Nineteen eighty-four is popular these days. People think that the ideas in the book like the memory hole are modeled on communist or fascist dictatorships from the…
Muskrat committee flags cost risk for potential alternate transmission software #nlpoli
At the end of December 2019, the Muskrat Falls Oversight Committee added development of alternate protection and control software for the high voltage direct current transmission system – that is,…
Cleaning up the mess of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
There are a couple of points in his 1,000 page report where commissioner Richard LeBlanc refers to politicians and other officials of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as being…
Interesting news, buried under bull #nlpoli
There are two aspects to Monday’s announcement about Muskrat Falls and electricity rates: political and practical items related to Muskrat Falls. Another set of decisions are actually related to the…
A mouthful of burp #nlpoli
Not one mitigation scheme. Not two mitigation schemes. Three mitigation schemes. Delivered by the end of January. All wonderful grand and all believable if you have had the sense knocked…
No change in the weather? No change in we. #nlpoli
The problem we have is not a lack of options and opportunities to sort out the government finances ourselves. The problem facing Newfoundland and Labrador is that the leading people…
Restoring Power: destroying the monster #nlpoli
The threat from Muskrat Falls can only be removed by concerted action that addresses the project’s financial burden, restores integrity to the system of electricity regulation, and that breaks, once…
Luncheon Speech: From Muskrat Falls to the Future #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler will be speaking to the St. John’s Rotary Club about getting beyond Muskrat Falls on Thursday, August 1, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland. Luncheon starts at…
Restoring Power: The Section 92A Option #nlpoli
One of the potentially most valuable revenue sources would be a new tax on electricity production that could yield upwards of $450 million a year. The bulk of the tax…
The Kick in the Guts #nlpoli
Those following the Muskrat Falls inquiry last week will likely have noticed that one of the big issues not discussed during Dwight Ball’s testimony was the circumstances surrounding Ed Martin’s…
Quebec appeals court decision on Churchill Falls contract no win for Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Media reports, political comments, and pundit opinions are wrong about the decision last week by the Quebec Court of Appeal in a case about the renewal clause of the 1969…
Restoring Power – Mitigating the Impacts of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
Left untended, the Muskrat Falls project threatens the financial well-being of the government and people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The threat cannot be removed merely by directing money from one…
A CHEAP Framework – the PC and Liberal Muskrat Falls plans #nlpoli
The Conservative and Liberal Muskrat Falls rate mitigation plans are the same. Both include magical assumptions of revenue. Both omit crucial details. Note: Some people asked on Monday for comment…
Napalm sticks… #nlpoli
The latest poll from MQO is being reported as a statistical tie by NTV , while CBC says it shows a “neck and neck” race between the PCs and Liberals.…
Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli
Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in the province nine years after the project started and the…