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Showing posts with label NB Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NB Power. Show all posts
22 February 2011

Atlantic energy co-operation: where Lower is higher

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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner is in Halifax talking energy co-operation with his counterparts in the Maritime provinces. Odd t...
20 July 2010

New 500 MW intertie for NS and NB

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New Brunswick Power and Nova Scotia Power are looking at the prospect of building a new 500 megawatt connection between the two provinces. ...
09 April 2010

Let he who didn’t oppose The Deal…

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cast the first stone against New Brunswick Power’s proposed 3% rate hike or any of the other proposals aimed at coping with the company’s f...
25 March 2010

Shawn the Bullet Dodger

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labradore makes a couple of very interesting points about Danny Williams and the failed New Brunswick Power deal, what with a major story ...
24 March 2010

Graham abandons NB power deal

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The deal to sell New Brunswick Power to Hydro Quebec is dead. Both sides are pointing to risks and problems that turned up apparently by ...
18 January 2010

NB Power deal: it’ll all be over soon

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First there was talk about reworking the deal. And now a cabinet minister says publicly he won’t be backing it. Oh yeah and the schleme...
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...
12 January 2010

As bad deals go…

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Okay. So like, let’s just make sure we are all clear on this. First, there was the disastrous deal with Venezuela that was supposed to ...
21 December 2009

They can’t re-blackball him

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Publisher Craig Westcott’s recent editorial from the Business Post has found its way to a New Brunswick newspaper . Wonder what the local...
18 December 2009

Purely coincidental: Hydro-Quebec/NB Power version

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Some of these things are linked.  Some may be purely coincidental. 1.  Hydro-Quebec plans to buy NB Power including the Point LePreau nucl...
15 December 2009

Bon Deal. Bad Deal.

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Turns out buying NB Power could be a very bad deal for Hydro-Quebec. Of course, that would make it a very good deal for New Brunswickers....
13 December 2009

Energy audio and video roundup

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1.  From CBC New Brunswick , a panel discussion involving the leader of the New Brunswick Conservative, Green and New Democratic parties and...

On the one hand…

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Jean-Thomas Bernard, economics professor at Laval, finds the Hydro-Quebec move to the Maritimes a bit puzzling since he believes that HQ wi...
04 December 2009

Graham smacks NL local preference policy

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New Brunswick premier Shawn Graham has taken a poke at Danny Williams, accusing the Newfoundland and Labrador premier of engaging in cheap ...

What makes news: the recycled edition

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News – by definition – is supposed to be new. New, as in not the same as something before. The CBC news from yesterday on the latest jih...
03 December 2009

The NB Power deal: AIMS releases comment

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The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies today released its assessment of the NB Power/ Hydro-Quebec memorandum of understanding.  The a...

Cutting to the heart of the matter

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If Shawn wants to shut Darrell and Danny up pretty fast, here’s a draft reply designed to do just that.  It’s called the “Money talks.  B...
21 November 2009

Yet more on the NB Power, Hydro Quebec, Danny Williams racket

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  1.  Shawn Graham had some strong words in advance of yesterday’s meeting of the Atlantic premiers. At the end of the meeting things wer...
20 November 2009

The Tempest Tick-Tock: key events in the Hydro Quebec and NB Power tirades

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It helps to put a timeline on things sometimes. 2006 May:   While a bill that is supposed to create the energy corporation is intr...
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...