Forget everything else that you know about Muskrat Falls.
The entire project hinged on Nalcor's ability to control water flows on the Churchill River. Nalcor's internal assessments showed that without the ability to control water flows, Nalcor's Lower Churchill project would reliably produce only about 17% of its nameplate capacity. That means that Muskrat Falls would have a firm generating capacity of about 140 megawatts, which is less than the free block of power Nalcor guaranteed Emera and Nova Scotia.
Nalcor gambled on a dubious interpretation of the 1969 power contract and lost.
The impact on Muskrat Falls will be devastating.
Here's why.
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05 November 2015
Media Training 101: Truth and Credibility #nlpoli
Last Friday, CBC’s David Cochrane asked Ryan Cleary about information Cochrane had – apparently from NDP sources - that Cleary had tried to run in a district where the New Democrats already had a candidate.
They asked him specifically about Virginia Park-Pleasantville, where the NDP had already announced lawyer Bob Buckingham would be the star candidate for the party.
Cleary replied: “Absolutely not.”
That wasn’t true, as CBC’s Terry Roberts confirmed on Wednesday.
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