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Showing posts with label Abitibi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abitibi. Show all posts
08 September 2014

Trash, Give-aways, and Conservative Policy #nlpoli

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Friday is trash day in the world of political communications. It’s the day when you slip out stuff that is unpleasant in the hopes people wi...
24 May 2013

Lowest Cost Option #nlpoli

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Note:  The words glory hole and shaft in this post are terms used in the mining and oil and gas industries. The provincial government is alm...
08 December 2012

The Pattern Proved #nlpoli

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Consider the latest failure of a lawsuit launched by the Greatest Legal Mind and Premier Ever in light of another case, Henley v. Cable Atl...
11 April 2011

Province settles expropriation with Enel, Sun Life and others

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Compensating a group of companies involved in the Star Lake affected by the Abitibi expropriation will wind up costing the taxpayers of this...
11 March 2011

AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest

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There’s a new commentary from an Ottawa-based think tank on the AbitibiBowater expropriation.  The commentary is basically Brian Lee Crowley...
19 January 2011

AbitibiBowater properties up for sale

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An advertisement appearing in the Telegram on Wednesday put the Stephenville and Botwood properties still owned by AbitibiBowater up for sa...
13 December 2010

Dunderdale confirms Bond story on Fortis and Enel

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As you read here on Friday , the provincial government is handing back property seized in December 2008 to Fortis and Enel. NTV ran the st...
10 December 2010

Conservatives to give back seized hydro assets

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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner gave notice on Thursday of a bill that is part of the compensation for two companies caught in the ...
19 November 2010

AbitibiBowater announces pensions agreement

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Issued by AbitibiBowater on Friday, November 19: “MONTREAL, Nov. 19 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater announced today that, as part of its res...
08 October 2010

AB fishing camp mystery solved

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As it turns out, the numbered company registered in Alberta that is buying a fishing camp in Labrador from AbitibiBowater for $ 1.4 million ...

Mystery company looking to buy AB fishing camp

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A numbered mineral exploration company registered in Alberta but headquartered in Newfoundland and Labrador is looking to buy a fishing camp...
14 September 2010

Unsecured creditors accept AbitibiBowater restructuring plan

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News release issued by AbitibiBowater: BWTQ (OTC) MONTREAL, Sept. 14 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater is pleased to announce that the Compa...
28 August 2010

Danny Williams and the National Post: Fact Check

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No surprise Danny’s miffed at the National Post .   Nor is it any surprise that the most thin-skinned person on the planet  - short of so...
26 August 2010

And the NAFTA/expropriation winner is…

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In their offices in the Sun Life Building in the heart of Montreal’s financial quarter, the boys at AbitibiBowater are likely making toasts ...
24 August 2010

AbitibiBowater reaches expropriation settlement

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The Government of Canada and AbitibiBowater announced a settlement today of AbitibiBowater’s NAFTA challenge of the 2008 seizure of its prop...
19 August 2010

The Expropriation Fiasco drags on

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Danny Williams hasty, ill-considered and thus far unexplained expropriation of AbitibiBowater assets may well end up costing the people of N...
30 July 2010

Sins of omission

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“Five key bridges in the western portion of the T’Railway Provincial Park that closed in 2008 are now re-opened to park users. … [The fiv...
28 May 2010

Every nickel counts

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Officially, the Old Man noticed the thousands of people affected by the nine-month old strike at Vale Inco. So he calls his buddy the Prem...
26 May 2010

Don’t mention the war

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It could be an episode of Fawlty Towers . Then again mentioning Germans and industrial development in Newfoundland and Labrador is more l...
20 May 2010

Fortis and Enel getting special treatment from Williams gov under expropriation bill

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At least two of companies whose long-term power purchase agreements were ripped up under the December 2008 expropriation bill will still get...