The PUB, Exemptions, and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Here’s some background on the issue of Muskrat Falls and Public Utilities Board exemptions. At the end you should know what an exemption is all about, how the exemptions –…
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Electricity prices, risk, and what the editors didn’t say #nlpoli
Okay. What Muskrat Falls will do to electricity prices is not funny. Never was. But what *is* extremely funny are columns like Russell Wangersky’s latest hand-wringer about the most recent…
Muskrat Falls Inquiry Terms of Reference – Comments #nlpoli #cdnpoli
MF Inquiry TOR Commentary EGHollett by Edward Hollett on Scribd
Don’t blame me (-dia) #nlpoli
Now that Muskrat Falls is officially a boondoggle, all sorts of people are rushing forward to criticise it. Others are also rushing forward to ensure we all know that they…
Multiple Interlocking Rationalizations #nlpoli #cdnpoli
In announcing an inquiry into some aspects of Muskrat Falls on Monday, the Premier muddled up some numbers that suggest the confusion at the heart of Monday’s big news. He…
The Quebec Demon #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The fancy word for it is revanchism. People who study words and language call it a borrowed word, meaning that we use it in English but got it from the…
Muskrat, risk, and memory #nlpoli
There’s a great column in Saturday’s Telegram by Pam Frampton than anyone concerned about Muskrat Falls should read. It’s the latest in a string of columns that Pam’s been writing…
Traces of the Grossly Impudent Lie #nlpoli
There’s a phrase in Pam Frampton’s Saturday column on Muskrat Falls. A bunch of words dropped in easily, maybe offhandedly. Nothing that really stands out. Just a simple fact. The…
No Market Research Required #nlpoli
In the House of Commons, members can put questions to cabinet ministers several ways. One of them is called Questions on the Order Paper. Ask a sensible question. Get a…
No Market Research Required #nlpoli
In the House of Commons, members can put questions to cabinet ministers several ways. One of them is called Questions on the Order Paper. Ask a sensible question. Get a…
Sovereignty #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the very few countries on the planet that got itself into such a financial mess that it gave up self-government. The people gave up…
A muskrat by any other name… #nlpoli
Memorial University economist Jim Feehan proposed in the December issue of Canadian Public Policy that the provincial government should change the way electricity is priced in Newfoundland and Labrador once…
Putting the sunk in sunk cost #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Muskrat Falls is basically an $800 million tax on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. That’s roughly the amount you get using numbers Nalcor chief executive Stan Marshall made public…
Public Support for Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates isn’t the only pollster in the universe, no matter what some people locally seem to believe. CRA released the results of a question the company asked during…
Spin, illustrated #nlpoli
Spin is a bit more than a mere biased interpretation or a clever reframing of an idea. In other words, there’s more to it than saying the glass is half…
Megawreck #nlpoli
Over the past couple of weeks, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador have been shown more and more the lunacy that is Muskrat Falls. Nothing better exemplifies the crazy world…
Faint hope #nlpoli
Nalcor won’t be able to install a boom upstream from the powerhouse construction. The result is that there will likely be damage to the dam construction, according to Nalcor boss…
Mazel Tov Cocktails #nlpoli
Scottie Nell Hughes is one of the legion of ident-a-bots who turned up on news programs during the recent American election spouting lines from the Trump campaign. She’s already famous…
The graveyard of ambition #nlpoli
Think of it as an inside joke. James McLeod interviewed Premier Dwight Ball about the horror show that has been Ball’s first year in office. “Ball also came under heavy…
un autre pet de cerveau de Jones #nlpoli
Labrador member of parliament Yvonne Jones got so effercited at the prospect of more hydro-electric development with Hydro-Quebec that she wanted to offer arctic and sub-arctic regions outside Labrador as…