Here’s some background on
the issue of Muskrat Falls and Public Utilities Board exemptions.
At the end you should know what an exemption
is all about, how the exemptions – there are more than one – came about – and what
that means for now and in the future as far as electricity rates go. We’ll deal with mitigation in another brief
post next week.
The information here is
based on material in the public record plus additional research and information
accumulated over 30 years working on public policy issues in the province. That
includes the 15 years of SRBP, much of which wound up being about the Lower
Churchill project.
Let’s start with what an
exemption is.