New Brunswick Tory Opposition leader Danny Williams said today that New Brunswickers should rise up and oppose the plan to sell NB Power to Hydro-Quebec.
Williams, who is also Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, said that "if [Quebec also] acquires P.E.I. and Nova Scotia [power], we will find ourselves in a situation where one province will have energy control of the entire Maritime provinces. It will be attempting to strand Newfoundland and Labrador. So good, cheap, competitively priced energy, can't be offered to that whole region.”
Williams is worried that HQ might also buy Nova Scotia Power?
Of course, that would be the Nova Scotia Power that is owned by the same company - Emera – that Williams is paying to sell electricity from Churchill Falls into New York state.
Yes that’s right. While Williams was frothing about the negative impact of the NB Power deal on Lower Churchill power sales to the United States, he is already selling power through Quebec and happily agreed to pay $19 million annually to do so.
So much for blocking the Lower Churchill, right?
And now Williams is concerned that Emera will bail on him in favour of selling their Nova Scotia subsidiary to HQ.
Things must be getting really bad for Williams if he believes that even his business partners are abandoning him. That’s on top of reports that have his party organizers blaming Trevor Taylor, the former member of the provincial legislature, for Williams’ loss in the Tuesday by-election. Talk about clubbing the fans.
Next thing you know he’ll be accusing his campaign donors of screwing him over too.
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