Ok.
So the political theatre that is the Lower Churchill project is now pulling into a another location already mapped out on the route.
It is a route pre-determined by amendments to the Electrical Power Control Act in 2007 but only put into force this past January.
That’s right.
2007.
Two whole years ago.
Because the provincial government’s energy corporation couldn’t reach a deal on water management on the Churchill River with Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation, the whole thing is headed off to the public utilities board where the Premier’s hand-picked appointee and a couple of other people will oversee the imposition of an agreement.
Hands up anyone who thinks the water management agreement that inevitably results from this process will not be exactly what the government’s energy corporation wants it to be.
And what exactly makes this some sort of giant obstacle supposedly thrown by Hydro Quebec to the development of a project which – as of this moment – has no customers, no financing and which, by the Premier’s own version of things is not even close to being started?
Good question.
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