CBC’s got the story:
ExxonMobil will be able to move work related to the Hebron oil project out of Newfoundland within days, as the possibility fades for an agreement to use local fabrication facilities.
“We’re not making any real progress, and it doesn’t appear that mediation will solve the issue,” Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy told CBC News late this week.
Kennedy can rattle on all he wants about what a great case he believes the provincial government had.
Talk, as SRBP noted in June, is exceedingly cheap. When the provincial government signed the Hebron agreement in 2008 they were not concerned about local benefits at all. They took what the companies had on the table and nothing more. Ed Martin’s view as head of Nalcor seems to be the same view of local industrial benefits he held when he worked for Big Oil.
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