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01 March 2009
Who got ABC cash?
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The blood feud between Danny Williams and Stephen Harper may have netted Danny Williams something for the $81,000 his ABC campaign reportedl...
28 February 2009
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
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Or maybe not, according to the Russians. David Pugliese has a neat blog entry on the whole flap of the past 24 hours coming out of the de...
27 February 2009
No Lower Churchill in Nova Scotia Green Plan
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Two things to note from the release of Nova Scotia’s green plan for energy conservation: 1. Talk is cheap, again: They actually have a...
Use power profits for region: Pike
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Former Abitibi public relations executive Roger Pike is suggesting the provincial government create a fund using the money generated by the...
26 February 2009
Freedom from information: the federal case
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The federal information commissioner released his report card today on the performance of federal departments under the access to informati...
25 February 2009
“The most serious threat to Gros Morne”
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A report prepared as part of the 1987 application process to declare Gros Morne a World Heritage site labelled proposed transmission lines t...
So where is the sustainable development act?
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We asked the question already but in light of the Gros Morne fiasco, one must wonder what happened to a piece of legislation we were told i...
Gros Morne controversy hits the Globe
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Only a couple of weeks ago the tinfoil hat brigade was crowing because one of their cherished delusions made it to the Globe. Then the Pre...
24 February 2009
NALCO: the power of confusion
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A sample of the conflicting policy statements on the Lower Churchill, Holyrood diesel generating plant and the rationale for slinging hydro ...
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...
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