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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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18 February 2009
Churchill Falls “go-it-alone”: not so much edition
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It’s not like you haven’t heard this before but the provincial government isn’t going alone on the Lower Churchill if the Lower Churchill go...
Lower Churchill EIS: first observations
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NALCO released the environmental impact statement for the Lower Churchill development on Tuesday. Following are some initial observations ...
17 February 2009
Lower Churchill EIS released
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NALCO released the environmental impact statement for the Lower Churchill project on Tuesday. The environmental review will not be comple...
Local crude holds above US$40
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While the most widely reported front-month crude price – West Texas Intermediate – continues to sit below US$40, the benchmark for local cru...
NALCO handling expropriation talks: AbitibiBowater
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The province’s energy corporation is handling talks on compensation with AbitibiBowater for the latter’s expropriated assets, according to A...
16 February 2009
The border war that wasn’t
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Told ya. Meanwhile the tinfoil hat brigade which usually bitches about the Globe and Mail not covering their stories now blame the Glob...
Ruelokke, Rowe and the Rule of Opposites
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A couple of years ago, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a comment by Danny Williams to the effect that Max Ruelokke as head of ...
15 February 2009
And what about Signal Hill, 2012?
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As it turns out, 2012 marks the anniversary of several major events in Canadian history but so far there has been very little talk of any co...
14 February 2009
Hydro towers through UNESCO World Heritage sites: the editorial view
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The Telegram Saturday editorial takes a dim view of NALCO’s proposal to string high voltage transmission lines through Gros Morne. Th...
Not quite so way-back machine: September 2006
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Konrad Yakabuski wrote on the Romaine project in September 2006 and your humble e-scribbler linked to the story at the time and covered the...
Political Darwinism
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How appropriate in this week of celebrating the guy who pointed out natural selection to the rest of us that the federal Conservatives shoul...
13 February 2009
Nurses, government do the power dance
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First, government tried threatening the nurses with an imposed settlement and back-to-work legislation in hopes of frightening them off thei...
Experience counts: Gerry Byrne
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Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte member of parliament Gerry Byrne’s letter to the editor of the Western Star appeared today. In it, Byrne out...
Hydro towers in national parks: first Gros Morne, now Mealy Mountain
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The proposed Lower Churchill infeed will also involve stringing an electrode from the main transmission line into the territory of the propo...
12 February 2009
IOC expansion on hold until markets improve
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Rio Tinto Group will be cutting its capital expenditure budget from US$9.0 billion to US$4.0 billion in 2009 in an effort to deal with the g...
Freedom from Information: Nat Res Two-fer Thursday
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The province’s natural resources department had rough day Thursday when it came to answering straight questions with straight answers. As ...
Expropriation bill companies report financial results
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Two of the companies affected by the expropriation bill last December reported dramatic financial turn-arounds last year. Manulife report...
Freedom from information: no comment on process because the process exists
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On January 8, your humble e-scribbler sent an e-mail to the natural resources department seeking some clarification of issues related to the...
The notional national media
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Go to the Globe and Mail website. Try and find a story from the February 11 edition by Rheal Seguin on a supposed border flap between Que...
11 February 2009
The dark side of local media celebrity
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“The cost of celebrity” - the first of a four-parter at Geoff Meeker’s media watch blog. Thank the stars or whatever that bloggers don’t ...
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