Cynthia Downey, ace provincial Conservative cheerleader, declares her unflinching support for the plan to double electricity rates in the province in a recent letter to the Telegram:
I, for one, am glad to have a government with a good plan for developing the hydroelectric power and making it profitable for us by selling it in the northeastern U.S.
Unfortunately for Cynth, that’s not true.
Nalcor vice president Derrick Sturge said recently that Muskrat falls power may never go to the United States. Nalcor isn’t counting on the United States market.
There’s good reason, too. Right now the Americans can pump out so much cheap electricity that they are selling it into New Brunswick. And that’s pretty much the forecast for the near future, at least out to the time Muskrat Falls will start pumping.
It doesn’t get any better, at least for Cynthia Downey.
She recites reason after reason for backing the deal but every one of her reasons is as wrong as that one about selling power to the United States.
She even trots out the old chestnut about shutting down Holyrood.
You’d think that a person who’d already been sucked in by a load of malarkey once before would learn to spot it again.
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