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Showing posts with label energy plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy plan. Show all posts
10 October 2013

Government Abandons Energy Plan … quietly #nlpoli

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These days, you have to hunt around the government website to find the provincial energy plan .  That’s despite the claim on the website – o...
19 June 2013

The Ever-Changing Provincial Energy Plan #nlpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale told delegates to the provincial offshore oil and gas industries association on Tuesday that the provincial govern...
31 May 2011

Reductio ad argentum: senatorial elections version

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With the Conservatives who have been running the province since 2003, everything reduces to cash .  For them, the only principle is cash ....
15 March 2011

No more give-aways indeed: Big Oil’s L’il Buddy considering cash breaks for major oil companies

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According to the cover story in the latest issue of Natural Resources magazine, the provincial government and representatives of the major ...
20 February 2011

What it means to be an energy warehouse

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Governors of New England states come to visit you looking for more juice.  In this case, Vermont’s top political leader took a two-day trip...
05 January 2011

The Fragile Economy: finance minister complains about his own policies

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Finance minister Tom Marshall thinks its time for the private sector to step in and boost the economy around Corner Brook. “Other than ...
23 November 2010

Ontario to double electricity rates

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Ontario’s new energy plan will see the province’s electricity rates double, but in 20 years, not seven. [ Globe and Mail ] This is the...
09 September 2010

Time to retire the old schtick

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On a certain level, you can’t blame Danny Williams for saying the same stuff over and over. After all, audiences like today’s gathering at...
12 August 2010

The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts

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labradore lays bare the foolishness that is the Old Man’s latest anti-Quebec tirade . Score one for His Premierness’s crack research a...
11 August 2010

A summer like no other: torquing in Technicolor on the cheap

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One of the great things about summer for perpetual campaigning is that cabinet ministers can spit out sheer nonsense and reporters for the l...
09 August 2010

NALCOR: the power of constipation

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Supposedly all we need is to know that the provincial government’s energy corporation, d.b.a. NALCOR, is “ aligned” and will take all the t...
22 January 2010

Samsung signs energy deal with Ontario

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Under a deal announced Thursday, Samsung Group of South Korea will develop 2500 megawatts of wind and solar energy in Ontario at a cost of ...
20 December 2009

Yipppeee! Bring on those higher energy prices

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From the New York Times : In 2009, some 31,000 households in Rhode Island will have their utilities shut off, and the effort to juggle...
23 November 2009

Five years of secret talks on Lower Churchill: the Dunderdale Audio

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In early September, natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale revealed that the provincial government tried unsuccessfully for five years ...
19 November 2009

The Philosopher’s Stone at Work: the Hebron fiscal agreement

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Consistent with government policy of selling off energy assets – converting principle to cash - clause 8.4 (A) of the Hebron Fiscal Agreeme...
18 November 2009

Danny Williams and the Philosopher’s Stone: Converting Principles to Cash

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  “It's giving away their future.” Danny Williams on the NB Power sale _____________________________________________________...
17 November 2009

Danny Williams and the Philosopher’s Stone: Control and Resources

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“Securing equity means having greater leverage to control our own destiny.” “The principle of making our own way and taking cont...
10 November 2009

So where’s NALCOR?

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The 17th annual bilateral (U.S.-Canada) conference on energy issues is taking place in Boston this Thursday and Friday. The conference the...
02 November 2009

An energy warehouse

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How can it be that Prince Edward Island is getting 15% of its energy needs met by wind power but all Newfoundland and Labrador has are two ...
01 November 2009

Scoping out the wind energy deficit

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The current issue of The Scope includes a front page feature on wind energy in the province or – to put it more accurately - the lack of an...