When there is so much official bullshit flying around, it shouldn’t be surprising that conventional news media wind up piling it higher and deeper on their own.
From the only newspaper Newfoundland nationalists care about comes a comment that ties Shawn McCarthy with the Ceeb’s Vic Adopia for most ludicrous assertion of the day by a reporter:
He has been battling Quebec Premier Jean Charest for years over Hydro-Québec’s refusal to transmit power from the Lower Churchill project through its existing transmission grid to markets in Ontario and the United States.
Hydro-Quebec hasn’t refused to wheel Lower Churchill power. NALCOR energy has refused to option space on the grid or start talks to build any needed extra transmission capacity.
But it gets better.
Since April 2009, NALCOR has been wheeling Churchill Falls power through Quebec to Emera at the New York border. That deal – which came long after the Lower Churchill transmission requests involved in recent Regie decisions – prompted Danny Williams to state proudly that Labrador power was no longer stranded:
This is truly a historic and momentous occasion for the people of our province, as never before have we been granted access through the province of Quebec with our own power.
But what is really amazing about the Globe piece is that Danny Williams actually spent five years trying to get Hydro-Quebec to take an ownership stake in the Lower Churchill without redress for the 1969 deal set to one side.
Oh, and just for fun, here’s what Danny Williams said in St. John’s on Thursday about whatever it was he announced with Darrell Dexter:
This is a day of great historic significance to Newfoundland and Labrador as we move forward with development of the Lower Churchill project, on our own terms and free of the geographic stranglehold of Quebec which has for too long determined the fate of the most attractive clean energy project in North America.
Historic agreement with Quebec.
Historic agreement with someone else because Quebec wouldn’t agree.
Which is it?
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7 comments:
Not only do you sound bitter and angry Ed, but I am wondering what your point is?
Slagging the CBC and Globe, as well as he said this and he said that....what does this have to do with the Nalcor and Emira arrangement that was announced yesterday?
Your pissing in the wind Eddie
Pointing out these obvious contradictions can hardly be compared to "pissing into the wind".
When the state funded media have been reduced to cheerleaders, surely SOMEONE ought to point out the fact that we have been wheeling power through Quebec since last year?
Isn't it important for the public to see the different versions of the "truth" as announced at different times by our leaders?
If there is no critical media, no examination of detail, how does the public make an informed decision at the ballot box?
Nonsense. The post is all about diversions. The fact that we have been wheeling power through Quebec, the fact that the Premier got the date wrong and the fact that "different past truths" have been announced have SFA to do with this arrangement that was signed yesterday.
Quebec has nothing to do with this, The Globe has nothing to do with this and the local media have nothing to do with this. Who gives a rats ass what their agenda or incompetencies are....
Lets talk about what's on the table today and discuss the merits or cons about the arrangement signed yesterday
Well, if your reply is to summarily dismiss some questions as "nonsense", there is not much point trying to engage in any meaningful debate about it.
However, it is remarkable that the 2009 successful wheeling arrangement has been forgotten, and Quebec is now once again described as having a "stranglehold" over NL.
Labradorians in particular might also wonder about the apparent inconsistency between the original position of the Premier, who promised that they would receive the benefit from the development, only now to learn that the coast of Labrador will continue to rely on diesel generators, something decried about in the case of Holyrood.
Maybe this is all "nonsense" to you. But some of us would appreiate more detail and less cheerleading from the media.
Hey Eddie,
I noticed you have been rather silent about the Liberal candidate in the upcoming Conception Bay East - Bell Island by-election.
What do you think of this so-called "star candidate" that Dr. Linda Goodyear had been talking up the day the nominations were opened for the by-election.
Sad times for the provincial Liberal Party, me thinks.
A proud Dipper!!
Ed, Ed, Ed.
Every paper Danny signs is "historic". A VISA slip at Boston Pizza? What a historic restaurant bill!
Every thing Danny does is "historic". When he gets out of bed (on the right side, naturally), it's historic. When he brushes his teeth, it's historic. When he clenches them, it's historic.
His farts are historic.
Are you allowed to speculate about His farts?
It's all historic.
"The post is all about diversions."
Of course it is.
So was yesterday's press conference.
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