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Showing posts with label hydroelectricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hydroelectricity. Show all posts
19 December 2014

PEI buying Quebec electricity #nlpoli

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Prince Edward Island is in the market to buy 100 megawatts of electricity from Hydro-Quebec, according to media reports on Thursday. -srb...
14 March 2012

Unions oppose energy conservation device #nlpoli

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Unions representing Hydro-Quebec employees are oppose to a plan to install so-called smart meters in Quebec homes.  According to the Montrea...
07 October 2011

If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes

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An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to V...
04 August 2011

Resource give-away

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The provincial government’s energy company controls billions of dollars worth of hydro-electric and oil resources  - much of it handed over ...
20 June 2011

Making the Most of Our Energy Resources (Part I – Electricity Reform)

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In slightly more than a decade, fundamentally bad policy decisions by Liberal and Conservative administrations have turned the provincial go...
31 August 2010

Bury my lede at Muskrat Falls

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The Proponent [NALCOR Energy] has failed to justify the Project in energy and economic terms and has not provided an assessment of greenh...
29 August 2010

Maine’s energy future

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Maine Governor John Baldacci can easily list off the elements of his state’s energy future. “This year Maine signed a Memorandum of Un...
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...
10 August 2010

Disclosure and scheduling delay Vermont/Quebec hydro deal

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A 25-year power purchase agreement between Hydro Quebec and Vermont is being held up because of HQ’s concerns about disclosure of sensitive ...
31 July 2010

Quebec and Vermont to keep talking power

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Quebec and Vermont have extended the July 31 deadline to reach a long-term power purchase agreement but officials quoted by Bloomberg are o...
24 January 2010

Hydro: the wet weekend round-up

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1.  A foundation of purest sandstone:   For those who are still following these things, the Telegram’s Rob Antle has a tidy little summary...
01 December 2009

The 1969 Churchill Falls Power Contract

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For those who might be interested in these things, here’s the 1969 power contract between Hydro-Quebec and Churchill Falls(Labrador) Corpor...
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...
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 _____________________________________________________...
09 November 2009

Lower Churchill a long way off

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In another Telegram story not available on line Danny Williams admits the Lower Churchill is still a long way from being a reality: “W...
29 October 2009

Eating his own

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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is tearing strips, not off New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham or Hydro-Quebec but his own d...
28 October 2009

Williams miffed that HQ beat him to market again

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In his written reply to Shawn Graham released today, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams reveals that his government energy c...
27 October 2009

Shawn to Danny: sod off, mate

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New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham sent Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams a polite letter on Wednesday telling him to keep hi...
25 October 2009

Kremlinology 10: Ah to be a Tory in Gander in October, when the dogs are fit to wag

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When the political going gets tough, what better way to handle it than to launch a phoney jihad against a completely imaginary enemy over a...
24 October 2009

$10 billion for NB Power

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A deal is close according to the Globe and Mail that would see Hydro-Quebec buy all of NB Power for $10 billion. But the Globe story con...