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14 August 2010

Traffic Drivers, August 9-13

  1. The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts
  2. The World the Old Man Lives In
  3. NALCOR: the power of constipation
  4. Connies, pork and electoral ridings
  5. AbitibiBowater creditors meeting
  6. The Search for Meaning Challenge
  7. Connies and “Stimulus”
  8. Jerome! if you want to
  9. Disclosure/scheduling delay Vermont/Quebec hydro deal
  10. [tie]  A summer like no other:  torquing in Technicolor on the cheap
  11. [tie]  Williams-era capital spending pales in historical terms

Quebec and Vermont signed a long-term power purchase agreement on August 12.  here’s the Montreal Gazette version.

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