Konrad Yakabuski wrote on the Romaine project in September 2006 and your humble e-scribbler linked to the story at the time and covered the follow-up stuff.
You can find the full article - “Only the brave gamble with Hydro Quebec” – various ways online.
It’s worth talking the time to go back and read it, worth it that is if you actually are looking for information as opposed to being party to the latest manufactured crisis.
Among other things, the Globe columnist puts the whole Romaine issue in the wider context of the Lower Churchill.
The real kicker, as noted by one commenter on a recent post, is that he draws attention to the local talk radio shows and their conspiracy theories.
Yes, the local Dominion stores sold out of ALCAN foil in record time this week as new rumours abounded about some giant plot by the latest crowd of Evil [Insert name of this week’s official enemy here] who have supposedly always had it in for people who wear tinfoil hats all the time.
While you are prowling the Bond papers archives for September 2006, you can find a couple of other goodies:
- “he spoke. and rapidly drank a glass of water.” On the 2004 Old Christmas Eve massacre of a speech on the supposed financial crisis facing the province.
- Danny channelling John Kennedy but getting mixed up in the transmission. or maybe not.
- A discussion of the Telly-torial at the time which stoked some of the tinfoil paranoia at the time.
- The start of a series at the twice before and now finally defunct Independent on negotiating terms of union with Canada, again. Some of us miss the Indy for its weekly dose of inadvertent humour. Sorta like what Night Line has become: the new home of repetitive strained-reality syndrome. Where else could you hear a guy who has pontificated on everything there is to say about the 1969 Churchill Falls deal admit he just finished reading the only serious book on the subject, written by the by in the mid-1970s. Or talk about “the latest poll” showing Provincial Conservative supported had plummeted. Said “latest poll” was on a blog, something clearly previously claimed he never read and, in this instance, on a blog written by someone he has smeared personally before. [Hint: it’s obvious the night-time host didn’t actually understand whatever it was he read on the blog of the guy he smeared even if he actually read it in the first place.]
- A post on Equalization – wait, it’s only short – noting that the federal Conservatives had plans for Equalization that the most unwillingly “have” province in the country wouldn’t like one bit. “The only question that remains is how long will it be before Danny Williams declares a jihad on Steve Harper?” your humble e-scribbler asked in September. Turned out to be less than 30 days before the Premier was urinating on the federal wingtips. Again.
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