Kathy Dunderdale claims she hasn’t heard “any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as we move on.”
Truth is there are plenty of arguments against her plan – left over from Danny Williams - to double the provincial debt, drive up electricity prices and all so that the provincial energy corporation can deliver discount power to Nova Scotia and anywhere but Newfoundland and Labrador.
The problem isn’t a lack of arguments against the scheme.
The problem is that Dunderdale - like her predecessor - refuses to pay attention.
Well, when she’s through reading Shawn McCarthy’s fluffier than usual puff piece in the the Newfoundland nationalists’ favourite newspaper – the Toronto Globe - she can wander over to a real newspaper – the Gazette - that reports real news. Dunderdale should prepare to have her ears blown off.
Hydro-Quebec forecasts it will have an electricity surplus in the coming decade. Lower-than-expected demand and lots of supply from natural gas.
That means electricity prices will be down.
Sounds like something the rest of us have heard before, like say most recently from David Vardy. He’s the Princeton-educated former Clerk of the Executive Council in Newfoundland and Labrador who is just the latest to chime in against the Muskrat falls scheme.
If Kathy Dunderdale hasn’t heard of any reasons not to pursue Danny Williams’ hare-brained scheme maybe she could read a few instead.
That way she could really distinguish herself from her predecessor. Scrapping Danny’s Muskrat insanity would be a damn-sight better for the people of the province than the fight-with-Ottawa from McCarthy’s piece as an example of how Dunderdale is not like her predecessor.
He never fought with Ottawa, did he?
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