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24 February 2009
New Dawn without light
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The Labradorian reported earlier this month that the Innu New Dawn land claims agreement vote scheduled for January 31 had been postponed ...
Tourism group/daily newspaper oppose hydro lines through UNESCO World Heritage site
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Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador has joined the growing list of groups and individuals opposed to NALCO’s plan to string hydro lines th...
23 February 2009
Attacking the messenger: the editorial reaction
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The Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser takes an editorial position on the Premier and his comments about Mark Griffin . For the Premier o...
The issue behind the Abitibi upset
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Human resources minister Susan Sullivan responded to Mark Griffin’s letter about Abitibi printed in last week’s Grand Falls-Windsor Advert...
Williams backs hydro lines through UNESCO World Heritage Site; protests mount on line
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Danny Williams sees no problem. “When park officials look at what the trade-off happens to be for the benefits we get at the end of d...
Norsk Hydro planning for two more years of downturn
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Like the groundhog seeing his shadow, Norsk Hydro is preparing for a economic downturn that will last at least another two years. The ...
22 February 2009
Verbal tics (5) and wandering into a math minefield
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Two things stand out from this scrum by the Premier and finance minister a little over a week ago. [ CBC video link : “Premier Danny William...
21 February 2009
Williams lends credence to other expropriation theory
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The Premier may have been trying to deflect one set of questions about the expropriation of AbitibiBowater’s hydroelectric assets when he to...
Mark Griffin: traitor
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The poor guy asks a few questions. This is what he gets for his troubles: "It's really unfortunate when one of our own com...
Chutzpah
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The old definition of chutzpah was killing both your parents and then seeking the mercy of the court because you are an orphan. The new de...
Bootie call stats – humping your leg version
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As labradore has noted, a story turned up on voice of the cabinet minister on Friday claiming that there had been 4900 live births in the...
20 February 2009
Holyrood an “absolute necessity” for decades to come: Hydro
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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is pushing the $10 billion Lower Churchill project and the multi-billion dollar power lines through a UNESCO...
Prov gov’t expropriated after it lost bid to buy hydro asset
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Human resources minister Susan Sullivan appeared on local talk radio today responding publicly to a letter by Grand falls-Windsor lawyer Mar...
Romanes eunt domus
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Somewhere in the cupboard, your humble e-scribbler has a coffee mug with the words “Illegitimi non carborundum” on the outside. Inside ther...
More offshore R&D cash
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The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal by oil companies into a court decision on research and development rules set by the ...
Hydro towers likely to confront cabinet in retreat
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The provincial cabinet may be retreating to Corner Brook for a couple of days but they won’t be able to retreat from a number of controvers...
19 February 2009
Auto sales in NL off big time
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According to DesRosiers Consultants , automobile sales in Newfoundland and Labrador dropped 34.2% in January 2009 compared to January 2008....
Paranoid delusions and the pain of loss
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The usual crowd on voice of the cabinet minister’s night time show are in a lather over Konrad Yakabuski’s column in the Thursday Globe and ...
NL new home starts forecast to drop by 17.4%
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ( CMHC ) is forecasting that new single home starts in Newfoundland and Labrador will be down 17.4% ...
That’s what that noise was…
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The giant pop was the bubble that was protecting the province from the global economic meltdown as it burst. Former finance minister Tom...
Recycled “stimulus”
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There is an unprecedented, historic level of money in yesterday’s provincial government pre-budget spending announcement that is recycled c...
18 February 2009
Freedom from Information: The “secret” inland fisheries review
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Former Provincial Conservative cabinet minister and retired supreme court judge Bill Marshall has been conducting a review of the province’s...
Math problems at provincial finance
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That 60 cycle hum you hear is not the turbines spooling up on the Lower Churchill. Nope. That noise would be the intense spin – torque w...
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...
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