All is well! #nlpoli
Nalcor and Emera announced on Tuesday that they’d agreed to put off the deadline on finishing a deal for the electricity line between Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia to…
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Missing deadlines #nlpoli
Nalcor and Emera announced on Tuesday that they would miss the November 30 deadline to reach an agreement on building an electricity line between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. They will…
In case you missed it, MF political panel version #nlpoli
All three political parties in Newfoundland and Labrador support Muskrat falls unequivocally. You can tell because all three party representatives on CBC’s On Point panel – Shawn Skinner, Siobhan Coady…
Rush job #nlpoli
There’s something about the memorandum of understanding released on Monday in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador that looks rushed. Maybe it’s the fact that the copy that the Nova…
Muskrat Falls Plot Points #nlpoli
On the week the memorandum of understanding between Nalcor Energy and Emera on the electricity transmission link between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and labrador is due to expire, take a…
Fooled him, too, did they? #nlpoli
Celebrity economist Wade Locke thinks it’s just great that the provincial government is going to use any surplus on its current budget to pay down debt. As he told the…
Nalcor’s own studies back NG as Muskrat alternative #nlpoli
According to Nalcor’s final submission to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review panel, the company dismissed natural gas as an alternative source of electricity instead of Muskrat Falls. This alternative…
She hasn’t heard? Part Deux #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale claims she hasn’t heard “any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are…
She hasn’t heard? #nlpoli
“I have yet to hear any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as…
We all can’t be wrong #nlpoli
There’s no small amount of humour in Kathy Dunderdale trying to claim that people who oppose the Muskrat Falls scheme are poorly informed. At last count, anyone with significant experience…
Muskrat review muddle and Nalcor competence #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy is a smart guy. It’s not that he is the smartest guy in a cabinet of dunderheads. Kennedy would be one of the smartest people…
Further to previous
The Western Star has latched on to a story that first ran this weekend in Halifax's Chronicle Herald about a coalition of environmental advocates calling for Nova Scotia Power to…
Cheap power for Nova Scotians #nlpoli
No, this is not about the official policy of both the Conservatives and new Democratic Parties in Newfoundland and labrador, although both parties have that as their major energy goal…
What does sanction really mean?
Here’s what Kathy Dunderdale told CBC’s David Cochrane about Muskrat Falls: "We're looking at sanction, at the earliest at this point in time, would be in the spring and the…
If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes
An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to Vermont of 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour when the electricity will…
Muskrat Falls support plummets: poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
Despite a massive marketing effort by the provincial Conservatives and the provincial government’s energy corporation, Nalcor, a new poll by NTV/Telelink shows a dramatic drop in support for the provincial…
Disconnect #nlpoli #nlvotes
Kathy Dunderdale says: "'s not intimidated by Mr. Aylward, nor should she be," Dunderdale said … but then the sentence finishes with: …during one of a series of stops in…
My work here is done #nlvotes #nlpoli
The Telegram quoted Kathy Dunderdale on Tuesday: "We have to find the cheapest way," she said today while campaigning on the west coast. "Muskrat Falls is that way unless somebody…
Quotable quotes
From Rob Antle's article in Atlantic Business Magazine, an interesting quote from federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver about Muskrat Falls, and the federal government's loan guarantee.“Look, the project, at…
Classical gas #nlpoli
Former Conservative policy advisor Cabot Martin knows a thing or two about energy. The guy worked in the energy department in the 1970s and was involved in every major policy…