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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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23 February 2009
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...
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