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 Labrador (roughly double current rates),
- at least double the current provincial debt, and,
- subsidised electricity exports to Nova Scotia and anywhere else in northeastern North America…
then vote:
Progressive Conservative
or
Liberal
or
New Democratic
No matter what you chose, you get Muskrat Falls.
- srbp -
2 comments:
I have to sadly agree with you Ed. I am totally against the construction of any more hydro dams on the Churchill River but it is too far gone now. Nalcor has spent too much money for to just put an end to it right now. Which ever winning party comes out of fall election is going to continue the project in one way or another.
Dave, it isn't just that the project is too far advanced to stop. It isn't.
The point for this post is that each of the party leaders is backing the project.
Dunderdale's been in from the start.
Michael abandon any pretense of being environmentally aware or financially responsible when she stampeded with everyone else in the federal election. Any position the NDP takes now that questions the project will be as hypocritical as their claim they are opposed to taxes favouring the rich while at the same time cutting gasoline taxes and home heating fuel taxes.
As for the Liberals, I am sure I wasn't the only Liberal who shook their heads in disbelief as Yvonne Jones made her true position clear on Issues and Answers last weekend.
She won't be able to backtrack now that her position is in public. Not only is she basically behind the project (for the lamest of reasons) but her idea of letting the AG decide is just a complete abrogation of responsibility. Who in their right mind would want to hand basic policy decision-making over to an un-elected official?
It's as bad as letting the scheme be dictated by purely political considerations, as is the case with the Tories and the NDP.
What ever happened to the public interest?
There are cheaper, greener alternatives to Muskrat if the province needs power. There are better ways to go.
There is absolutely NO justification for the Nalcor plan to force their ratepayers to carry the full cost. It is the most hideous expression of monopoly power imaginable. It is a complete rejection of basic policy of providing the lowest cost power supply to consumers.
HQ gives its locals cheap power and takes advantage of exports to make money. Nalcor wants to stick it to local consumers and ship subsidised power for export. It's insane but Kathy, Lorraine and Yvonne think that makes sense.
And then consider that the three parties are talking up project only 4% of the province is interested in.
Meanwhile, they completely ignore health care education and economic development (stuff three quarters of people are interested in).
What a truly pathetic state of affairs from three leaders who won't even be in their jobs four years from now.
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