Venus in Furs: Muskrat Falls edition
There’s a kind of political writing that makes you squirm. On the face of it, and in isolation, a sentence can be perfectly correct. The problem comes when the politician,…
Muskrat Falls
Misleading the House: recall the whole recall power story
Why would Nalcor mislead the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, asks finance minister Tom Marshall with all the seriousness he can muster. Yes folks, the fellow with one of the…
The Muskrat Falls Loan Guarantee Memorandum of Agreement
From the NRCAN website: In its June 3, 2011 Speech from the Throne the federal Government expressed its commitment to support the lower Churchill River hydroelectricity projects, as an important…
Feds to announce MOU on loan guarantee
NTV News broke the news reported Wednesday evening that an unspecified number of federal cabinet ministers will be in St. John’s on Friday to announce that the federal and provincial…
The truth is out there…Nalcor version
The truth is out there. You just really have to read Nalcor’s stuff really carefully to find it. Take, for example, a recent letter in the Telegram by Greg Jones, …
Debt, electricity rates and Muskrat Falls #nlvotes
The editorial board at the Telegram understands the point exactly. It’s a point your humble e-scribbler has been harping on for six years to one extent or another. And it’s…
Turd Buffing
Russell Wangersky’s column on Tuesday discussed some of Nalcor’s efforts to deal with criticism of the Muskrat Falls project. He notes the company letters to the editor and interviews efforts…
Nalcor ignores natural gas, local studies back cheaper alternative to Muskrat Falls project
The provincial government’s energy corporation didn’t study natural gas as an alternative to using Muskrat Falls to replace the Holyrood generating plant according to the company’s final written submission to…
Bullshit then or now? Nalcor boss changes story on natural gas and Muskrat megadebt project
Ed Martin dismisses the idea that natural gas might be a sensible replacement for burning Bunker C at Holyrood. Here’s the whole story from VOCM in the event they disappear…
Former Tory fin min not giving up in fight against Muskrat
Former Conservative finance minister John Collins is fighting the Muskrat Falls project as fervently as ever. The 80-something has a new letter in the Telegram taking issue with recent comments…
Noticed
My gosh but today's Telegram editorial today has a few very, very familiar elements to it.
Telly takes wind out of Muskrat
The Telegram editorial on Thursday linked the Muskrat Falls project with the recent announcement by Kruger Inc of a wind energy project in Quebec: Power, apparently, is cheaper in Quebec.…
Did I say yes to Muskrat? I meant “no”: Jones
Political decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador are apparently like the local weather at least as far as the current crop of party leaders in the province is concerned. Wait a…
Ahem
From the e-mail inbox this week came a gentle reminder from Kevin Kelly, editor at the Herald: Just wanted to point out that in last week's Newfoundland Herald, (the one…
Veracity from Vermont
You can follow this link to CBC Radio's Radio Noon interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, talking about the proposed Lower Churchill hydro development at Muskrat Falls, and discussion around…
The Ballot Question: October 2011
Here’s the question for voters to decide in this fall’s general election as the party leaders themselves have defined it. If you want: guaranteed high electricity prices in Newfoundland and…
A world of their own
Kathy Dunderdale showed up in the province again to talk about the wonderful reception her Muskrat Falls megadebt project got from the New England governors. Two things stood out right…
All three NL parties back Muskrat project
Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador who are worried about the current Tory administration’s plans to double the public debt and public electricity rates need worry no longer. The project will…
Disconnected from Connecticut
Tuesday's papers will undoubtedly be picking up on this CP story in which the topic of discussion flowing from the New England Governors and Eastern Premiers was the delay in…
Dexter admits NS didn’t do Muskrat Falls homework
In an interview with The Coast, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter admits his government didn’t exercise due diligence before signing onto the Muskrat Falls project: The Coast: Has the Nova…