Two things to note from the release of Nova Scotia’s green plan for energy conservation:
1. Talk is cheap, again: They actually have a plan, unlike Newfoundland and Labrador.
One was promised in 2005 but so far – and in keeping with the inability of this administration to do anything in a timely way – no details haven’t emerged that actually create meaningful targets for anything.
2. Contrary to the sentence in the Chronicle-Herald’s coverage, there is no reference to the Lower Churchill in the plan itself.
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2 comments:
I just don't know why we all haven't been discussing why the Lower Churchill WILL NOT Be GOING AHEAD.
The reality is that, with all the delays and non progression of agreememnts with Quebec over the project, I think Quebec decided to "go it alone" because we haggled with ourselves over not doing a deal with them.
Time is a great boon for the Romaine river projects and the Lower churchill just keeps getting colder...
That fact, and the capital costs themselves, of bringing a line down the island portion of the province and then under water to Nova Scotia makes this project not feaseable in its own right, and that's not even to mention the fact that Labrador residents are still left in the cold with the most heavily subsidised electricity in North America.
No argument from me, Geroge. I've bene banging that drum since the beginning.
I have just found it really useful to go through the who project as laid out and see what they talk about anyway.
BTW, the is $10 billion for the two dams and upwards of another $3-4 billion for the infeed., not counting Holyrood costs for refurbishment etc.
That's more than double the provincial debt all of which would have to be guaranteed by local taxpayers OR be udnerwritten by a sweetheart price deal
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