There’s independent and then there’s Navigant #nlpoli
Nalcor chief executive Ed martin told a CBC audience on Thursday that the Navigant report meets the joint review panel’s requirement for a complete, independent review of Kathy Dunderdale’s plan…
Muskrat Falls
Word Clues
According to the St. John’s Board of Trade, “Newfoundland and Labrador’s considerable assets include … captive consumer market worth over $10 billion annually.” Interesting choice of words that. “Captive”. Prisoner.…
SRBP on Radio: Muskrat Falls
For those who missed it, here’s the audio from your humble e-scribbler’s Labour day call to Open Line. h/t to Dave Adey who has been relentlessly documenting Muskrat calls to…
Aylward questions Nalcor on choice of consultant
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward has sent a letter to Nalcor boss Ed Martin asking about Nalcor’s use of Navigant as the consultant the company chose for a review of the…
Dateline: Desperation, Newfoundland
Finance minister Tom Marshall called the province’s major radio talk show on Thursday to promote the Muskrat Falls power project. He quoted from a book by Wally Read and L.J.…
Danny, Gary and Steve: old inconsistencies die hard
Apparently your humble e-scribbler isn’t the only one who found it amusing that an anti-Harper former premier is campaigning in pro-Harper country for a Conservative who doesn’t share the Old…
RCMP investigating SNC Lavalin officials over corruption allegations
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating officials of the engineering firm SNC Lavalin, according to media reports on possible corruption charges related to a $1.2 billion bridge project funded by…
We can always sell it…
You can tell the gang pushing Muskrat falls are having trouble meeting the arguments against their scheme to jack up power rates and the public debt. They are now talking…
Grand Riverkeepers call Joint Review Panel Report “victory” for Labradorians
From the Grand Riverkeepers news release: HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, NL – “The Review Panel’s report reflects what we have been saying all along,” said Clarice Blake Rudkowski, president…
Et maintenant, le deluge…
In his regular column in the Wednesday edition, Telegram editor Peter Jackson succinctly explains why Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls scheme is a very bad idea: Reading the review panel’s comments,…
NL ratepayers to carry full cost of Muskrat Falls plus more #nlpoli
If there is anyone left who doesn’t understand who will pay for Muskrat Falls, let him or her read the joint review panel report: The Panel notes that the main…
Muskrat Falls: lost opportunity
The claim: Nalcor stated in its final submission to the Panel that without the Project the Province would lose an opportunity to create long-term revenue to fund social programs.…
Muskrat Falls: what an independent review really looks like
The provincial Liberals included a handy table with their Friday news release on the joint federal/provincial environmental panel’s report on Muskrat Falls. The chart compares what the environmental panel said…
MF Traffic Report
Turns out the MF deal is a mf, at least for the political fortunes of the gang who cooked up the scheme to ship discount power to Nova Scotia paid…
Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all…
Muskrat Falls fails joint federal/provincial environmental review #nlpoli
… if the recommended economic and alternatives studies show that there are alternative ways of meeting the electricity demands of the Island over the medium term in a manner that…
Joint environmental panel slams Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The federal and provincial governments released the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review of Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat falls project. Big fail, across the board. Like no one could possibly have seen…
NDP avoids straight answer on Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
You can tell if a provincial opposition party politician supports Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls plan by how many words it takes to explain his or her position. New Democratic Party…
The Power of Confusion: The Three Amigos Update #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t understand the criticism of the federal government’s recent announcement of a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls megadebt project Provincial NDP leader Lorraine Michael, for one,…
Subsidizing subsidized industry…somewhere else
“Curiouser and curiouser”, cried Alice, so overcome by the photograph that she momentarily forgot how to speak English properly. “Is it some sort of uniform?” “Might well be,” her companion…