So the provincial Conservatives are still looking to Uncle Ottawa for a loan guarantee to build the Danny Williams Memorial Money Pit, a.k.a Muskrat Falls and a bunch of transmission lines. This is a really old story.
Danny Williams claimed he had a commitment at one point but for some reason the provincial Conservatives have to keep asking for it.
In the latest version, Kathy Dunderdale – Williams’ chosen heir – is asking again, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is carefully examining the whole project that he supposedly already committed to fund.
Well, at least that’s what Kathy told us what Stephen said which is basically what happened before when Danny told us over an dover again that Stephen gave a loan guarantee which he apparently never did since Danny and Kathy have to keep asking for it.
Yes, yes, it is just more of the same but let’s just make this really simple.
Let’s remind everyone of what Stephen Harper said in 2006 when Danny Williams asked him to finance the Lower Churchill:
A Conservative government would welcome discussions on this initiative and would hope that the potential exists for it to proceed in the spirit of past successes such as the Hibernia project.
Hibernia project.
1992.
8.5% Equity stake.
How big a piece of the Muskrat Falls pie is Kathy willing to sell to Stephen Harper to build Danny Williams’ legacy?
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6 comments:
There is no way Stephen Harper is going to assist in this project - period. He may have been smacked about (politically) by NL, but he doesn't want to hurt her that bad. Even if her politicians do. When he says publicly that he needs "many questions" answered it translates to: As a provincial government you don't know what the hell you are doing. Doesn't it? How many governments tell each other publicly that they have to review the business plan of the other? Especially in an election year. Then go back to the photo op in Ottawa, and look at the coffee table in the picture. Green file closed. Closed. This government may want to sacrifice it's people on the alter of personal glory, but some of us don't. I include the PM in that category. Like him or hate him, right now he is saving us from our own prov government. Ironic, but thats the facts.
Ed, it's "Steve".
Maybe this LEGACY thing is just smoke and mirrors .
Is this LEGACY or RAPACITY ?
Will the people of this province wake-up one fine day and find out that Williams is a major shareholder in EMERA ?
Prediction....
Tonight's byelection loser will blame the weather on voter turnout and how their supporters stayed home because of it
Ullr is smiling down on Mark .
From REFB, who asked for the comment to be posted:
And if some of us are right, that as long as a substantial amount of the power from Muskrat stays in (or appears to stay in) Newfoundland, then the Public Utilities Board has legal right to up our electricity rates to pay (no excuse me) subsidize, the power that is being sold to Emera at $95.00 MWh but is gonna cost $143.00 to $165.00 per MWh to produce..(Dunderdale's own words) Where's the fairness in that... ? NALCOR can't loose... they're protected by every possible changed law that Danny could put in place while he was Premier, including being EXEMPT from the Freedom of Information Act.... And likely once this "extension Cord" is plugged in to Labrador, we here will not only be by-passed by ALL the power, our rates could hike by 6 times, if we're then considered to be on the Island Grid... Not too shabby Dunderdale and Williams... you get to thumb your nose at Quebec, Get Danny's name on one dam and maybe Dunderdale's on another, and screw up any possibility of truly green power every getting a toe hold on the Island or in Nova Scotia by spending every last cent and then some that we have in credibility.... and the rest of us get to pay for your "fun in the sun". Rate payers on the Island and in Labrador need to be warned. This is a boondoggle of a project economically, socially, and for bloody sure, environmentally!
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