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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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23 January 2012
Muskrat Falls and debt: some quick points #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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There are some big misconceptions out there as a result of the way people in government talk about debt. That has implications for any discu...
Wading through Locke on Muskrat (Part 1) #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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An hour-long presentation, 48 slides and an interview with David Cochrane. For all that, some apparent confusion lingers about what Memori...
21 January 2012
Muskrat Falls: The Kennedy Tweets #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Here’s a string of tweets from natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy on Friday night: Jerome Kennedy @jerome_kennedy Let me try and ...
20 January 2012
Old Harry review delayed at proponent request #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board [paragraphing changed for online readability]: The C-NLOPB has recei...
Paying Attention 2: Muskrat Edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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You learn a lot when you pay attention to what people say. Like natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy when he says that “it seems tha...
Paying attention #nlpoli
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In order to understand what is going on in the world around you, then you just need to pay attention. Paul Wells makes plain the value of ...
Muskrat Falls: Cum on feel the Noize #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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According to natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy , criticism of the government’s refusal to give the public utilities board the time ...
19 January 2012
Kennedy slices into NDP’s Muskrat falls hypocrisy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy belled the NDP cat on Wednesday for the provincial party’s flip-flop on Muskrat Falls. As the Tele...
Locke admits assessment was “probably not” fair #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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In an interview with the Telegram that appeared in Thursday’s edition, Memorial University economist Wade Locke admitted that his assessmen...
Rumpole and the New Math
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The voice rasped down the phone line even before the receiver hit my ear. “On the Upper Path these days,” the familiar voice solemnly decl...
18 January 2012
Locke and Muskrat Falls: some quick points #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Memorial University economist Wade Locke delivered a presentation on Tuesday night about Muskrat Falls , a project he had already endorsed p...
17 January 2012
If this is bad… #nlpoli
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Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary thinks that Marine Atlantic’s 4.5% fare increase will put the province at a disadvantage when it ...
Sucking eggs, debating Muskrat Falls and other wastes of time #nlpoli
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Former natural resources minister Shawn Skinner thinks there House of Assembly should debate the Muskrat Falls deal. Ditto his replacement...
16 January 2012
Epic Fail Snail Mail
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If you wanted to promote something that was better than ever, especially high definition television, you certainly wouldn’t like to use a pi...
Rebirth for one, and for the other? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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The federal Liberal convention this weekend shows just exactly how out to lunch the overwrought media commentary about the devastated Libera...
15 January 2012
Dan-O-Matic Translator still works #nlpoli
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If David Vardy was wrong about Muskrat Falls or about the concern some people have about publicly criticising Tory pet projects, Danny Willi...
14 January 2012
Muskrat Falls, the kamikaze venture #nlpoli
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Not surprisingly Nalcor’s Ed Martin latched onto a pretty superficial argument to dismiss economist Jim Feehan’s critique of Muskrat Fall...
13 January 2012
Beleaguered utility blows raspberry at regulator #nlpoli
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Nalcor should be able to supply information to any regulatory or review process for the Muskrat Falls project because the company should hav...
12 January 2012
Cheaper Muskrat Alternative: Part Whatever Gigantic Number we are at now #nlpoli
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Hydro-Quebec just signed a deal to purchase 150 megawatts of electricity produced by biomass. “The price for the power, in 2012 dollar...
The limits of myth busting #nlpoli
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Coming to The Rooms in February: Wednesday, February 22, 7 pm The Limits of Myth Busting: Popular and Professional Historie...
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