Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background

Powerplant at Churchill Falls under construction.
(Photo:  Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation)

Not every SRBP post on Labrador hydro-electricity and Muskrat Falls but it's a good place to start.

Update:  September 8, 2016

The Overview

• The development of our country (September 2016)
• Jerusalem, Eldorado, and Perdition (September 2016)

The Beginning(s)

• Going it alone...with partners (May 2006)
• First Lower Churchill proposal unveiled (March 2005)
• Williams Announces Political Exit Plan (October 2010)

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

• Joint review panel final report 

Churchill Falls

• Churchill Falls background (2006)

Critics

• Muskrat Falls - the benefits of a phased development (PUB submission by "JM")
• We All Can't Be Wrong (November 2011)

Decision-Making

• How to Make Bad Decisions (May 2012)

Electricity Demand Forecasts (Newfoundland and Labrador)

• Demand Forecasts (July 2012)

Financial Issues

• Dazed and Confused:  Muskrat Falls Proponents version (December 2011)
• Muskrat Falls:  the kamikaze venture (January 2012)
• Danny and Jerome! on Muskrat Falls Financials (February 2012)
• Not Even Close to a Heritage Fund (June 2012)
• Major Policy Shift on Muskrat Falls, or Uncle Tom's Problem (June 2012)
• Who does he think he is fooling?  - US sales (September 2016)  

The JM Series

• Muskrat Falls - the benefits of a phased development 
• Upper Churchill:  an unexplored alternative
• Labrador Mining and Muskrat Falls
• The Simple Litmus Test
• The Importance of Transparency
• Demand and Costs
• The Water Management Agreement
• Two Variants of the Interconnected Option
• A relapse of the free market society
• Delayed dividends and more equity required
• UARB decision and implications for the taxpayer in Newfoundland and Labrador
• If Nalcor got the peak load wrong...
• An estimate of electricity prices in Newfoundland and Labrador

The July 2012 Series

• The Inevitable Muskrat Falls
• Cost Over-runs and Muskrat Falls
• High Politics and Muskrat Falls
• Executive Politics and Muskrat Falls
• Going Down by the Front End (Decision-making biases)
• The Stuff We Don't Know (Uncertainty)

Muskrat Falls:  Official Information

• Nalcor submission to the Public Utilities Board

Nalcor:  Corporate Issues

• Nalcor's Dark Secret (June 2012)

Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia would get Muskrat Falls power for free (March 2012)

Power Issues

• More Pesky Details (January 2012)
• Terawatts for Terra Nova and other fun (February 2012)
• Adams and Nalcor:  Second Round (February 2012)
• Water Rights and the Muskrat Falls Disaster (August 2016)

Prices

• Nalcor:  generations
• Muskrat Falls electricity prices
• Consumer electricity prices to jump by 51%
• Consumers to pay 19.8 cents a kwh for electricity

Public Utilities Board

• Comments and Submissions by Private Individuals
• PUB Final Report

Quebec

• Way Back [Guaranteed Winter Availability Contract]  (January 2008)
• Danny Williams, Hydro-Quebec and the Lower Churchill [includes Williams' redress statement from 2002] (November 2009)
• Williams prepared to wrap arms around Quebec (August 2012)

Risk

• Pride goeth, more undisclosed risk, and all that

$#*! Politicians Say

• Jerome! edition (March 2012)
• A fresh smear of lipstick (April 2012)

Wade Locke's Assessment (January 2012)

• Part 1 
• Part 2 
• Part 3 
• Locke admits assessment was "probably not" fair

Water Management

• When engineering becomes imagineering
• Water management controversy hits Nova Scotia
• The Mystical Lords of Musk'ra'At Fa'Alls
• Gil Bennett won't retweet this post (2011)
• Adding the technical to the legal on WMA
• Firm and Unfirm
• Water Rights and the Muskrat Falls disaster (August 2016)