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Showing posts with label Ed Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Martin. Show all posts
01 June 2016

Anger Ball

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Premier Dwight Ball got angry on Tuesday. He's angry at the suggestion that he approved paying severance to Ed Martin. Well, reall...
26 May 2016

Alarums and Excursions #nlpoli

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Dwight Ball is hiding details of his involvement in the decision to give an enormous and unwarranted severance package paid to Ed Martin des...
25 May 2016

Ball digs himself deeper into hole #nlpoli

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Dwight Ball's latest version of Ed Martin's departure from Nalcor only deepens the political quagmire  into which the Premier and hi...
21 April 2016

Offense and Defense #nlpoli

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If you're not on offense, you are on defense. And in politics, if you are on defense, you are losing. The Liberals wound up on the d...
20 April 2016

Getting while the getting is good. #nlpoli

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As if on cue,  Danny Williams' publicist tweeted praise for Ed Martin as soon as news broke that Danny Williams' right-hand for so m...

Actions and words #nlpoli

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The provincial cabinet has known since January - at least - that the powerhouse at Muskrat Falls is only 15% completed despite a huge payout...
05 February 2016

Old whine still sour #nlpoli

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"I'm concerned that we have an aging asset,”  natural resources minister Siobhan Coady  told CBC in explaining the most recent brea...
13 January 2014

The Third Line #nlpoli

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Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador never think about the electricity into their homes.  They don’t know where it comes from and they c...
10 January 2014

The Confidence Campaign #nlpoli #darknl

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The provincial government started its campaign to gain control of the political agenda on Thursday with its announcement that it would appoi...
09 January 2014

Dunderstan #nlpoli

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In January 2012, Ed Martin and his nasally drone ridiculed the idea of shifting demand for electricity from one part of the day to another ...
06 January 2014

The Great Blizzard/Blackout 2014 #nlpoli

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Some observations: 1.  Yep.  It’s a crisis. When you have a major utility cutting electricity to people in a blizzard at random, for ran...
09 October 2012

Muskrat, Martin, and Meaning #nlpoli

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Note the number of times Ed Martin says “open”  or “transparent” within the first five minutes of his weekend interview for On Point with Da...
22 June 2012

Looking beyond the Hebron sandbox #nlpoli

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ExxonMobil drew a line in the sand this morning, and the minister and I are here to draw another line in the sand, as far as this project...
21 July 2011

Bullshit then or now? Nalcor boss changes story on natural gas and Muskrat megadebt project

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Ed Martin dismisses the idea that natural gas might be a sensible replacement for burning Bunker C at Holyrood. Here’s the whole story fro...
17 December 2010

Muskrat Falls: Internal contradictions

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Nalcor headman Ed Martin is supposed to be selling the Muskrat falls plan for the Conservatives to help their re-election bid. He is talk...
02 November 2010

Lower Churchill: more potato, potato

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Sometimes really interesting things crop up in two stories about the Lower Churchill.  Take for example, the likelihood of a deal with Eme...
17 January 2010

Lower Churchill, Nova Scotia and NB Power: “The sheer economics of it…”

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And it is not like people haven’t said this before : Premier Darrell Dexter said he’s not surprised Newfoundland and Labrador is lookin...
03 December 2009

Too bad wishing didn’t make it so

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There are times you have to feel sorry for Ed Martin.  The fellow was hired out of a successful career in the oil industry to try and crea...
13 November 2009

What Hydro Quebec gets in the Maritimes

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Quebec Premier Jean Charest revealed today that Hydro Quebec has started negotiations to take over electricity delivery on Prince Edward is...
10 September 2009

Hydro Quebec not an issue: Ed Martin

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A few days before Danny Williams tried to blame Hydro-Quebec for delays and problems in the Lower Churchill project, NALCO chief executive E...