The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Husky gambit last week presents the province’s leaders with a fundamental challenge.  Do we continue on the current path or do we change...

In a staged political event Thursday that was woefully short of basic details,  the provincial government and Equinor announced they will pr...

As  Bond Papers  noted on Thursday, part of the  Hebron  deal will involve a change to the provincial royalty  regime  local media are chara...

Rob Strong has been a key player in the local oil and gas industry pretty much since the earliest days.  He knows what he is talking abo...

“What this province needs is not just someone with the brains to figure out what's wrong with our economy,” future Premier Kathy Dunderd...

It didn’t take long for Paul Davis to get the comparison he was looking for last week. The Telegram - not surprisingly – offered it up in...

There are so many problems raised by Premier Paul Davis’ zeal to sign an agreement with Statoil for the Bay du Nord that it is difficult to...

In response to questioning in the House of Assembly last Tuesday and Wednesday , natural resources Minister Derrick Dalley confirmed that t...

Hebron is the last of the four, big, offshore discoveries from the 1980s. It’s due to come into production in 2017 based on a development ...

CBC news reported on Thursday that the topsides module for the Hebron project won’t be delivered on time.  Rather than arriving in 2015 f...

Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy admitted over the weekend that he had not done the calculation to figure out if the equity stake ...

The partners in the Hebron project sanctioned the development on New Year’s Eve and announced the decision on Friday. The new cost estimat...

Sending the third topsides module from Hebron outside the province was “ absolutely unacceptable ” to Premier Kathy Dunderdale back in June....

CBC’s got the story: ExxonMobil will be able to move work related to the Hebron oil project out of Newfoundland within days, as the po...

Lots of words came from Premier Kathy Dunderdale and natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy in their dispute over construction of a major...

Hear what comfortable words Jerome! sayeth, back when he was finance minister ( December 9, 2008 ): The $4 billion six-year plan is as ...

December 16, 2009 Mr. Speaker, their ignorance of this project is staggering, and what is frightening about it is they put this out lik...

November 27, 2008 : One of the things that I am proudest of – I mean, the benefits that we negotiated under the Hebron agreement have n...

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...

As an astute reader pointed out in a n e-mail Tuesday morning, the Hebron-Muskrat Falls connection is not really as important these days as...