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31 July 2012

A Big Tell on Muskrat Falls Exports #nlpoli

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A meeting of the Eastern Canadian premiers and all the New England Governors and the provincial government here sends Keith Hutchings . W...

A finalized term sheet? #nlpoli

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Nalcor and Emera signed a finalised term sheet to develop Muskrat Falls in November 2010. The next step was supposed to be negotiation of ...
30 July 2012

The Art of Budget Forecasting #nlpoli

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The provincial government set its budget this year based on an oil price forecast of US$124 a barrel in 2012. As we move up on the midway ...

Those friggers from [insert name of province] #nlpoli

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Anyone steeped in the whole Quebec-Newfoundland fight over hydro-electricity exports will look at the whole Alberta-British Columbia fight o...
27 July 2012

The Magic Number #nlpoli

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“Nalcor’s position”, wrote the joint federal-provincial review panel on the Lower Churchill project, “was that up to 800 MW of energy from ...

Demand Forecasts #nlpoli

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Yesterday’s offhand reference to Nalcor’s electricity demand forecasts brought home a couple of points to your humble e-scribbler.  The bi...
26 July 2012

NL wheeling power through Quebec #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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From April 2009, here’s Kathy Dunderdale – then the province’s natural resources minister – quoted in a news release on an historic agreeme...

There’s no greater yada than a yada yada #nlpoli

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The Nunatukavut are a group of aboriginal people living in Labrador.  They used to be known as the Labrador Metis. In October 2003 , Danny...

Managing Electricity Demand #nlpoli

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Nalcor’s forecast for electricity demand on the island of Newfoundland doesn’t really show a massive increase over the next couple of decade...

Gander at the goosing #nlpoli

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Apparently, your humble e-scribbler got on Steve Kent’s nerves. The Conservative politician and his friends have been bombarding Twitter a...
25 July 2012

Some help for the St. John’s Board of Trade #nlpoli

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…who have suddenly discovered that the provincial economy is in serious need of diversification: a 2010 series called the Fragile Economy ....

Repsol may sell New Brunswick LNG port #nlpoli

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Spanish oil and gas company Repsol may be  looking to sell its  interest in the Saint John New Brunswick liquefied natural gas facility.  Th...

The tone at the top - federal version #nlpoli

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Marni Soupcoff has got it right about the campaign finance scandal currently swirling around federal intergovernmental affairs minister Pet...
24 July 2012

There’s reality and … #nlpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to talk about reality on Monday. A reality check she called it: “Everybody sees what’s happening wit...

Reality Check: drops and buckets version #nlpoli

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Via labradore , a chart that plots Conservative unsustainable public spending since 2003 with recently announced controls on discretionary s...

Magical Thinking and the Muskrat Falls Tax #nlpoli

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Muskrat Falls seems to be intimately connected to magic, at least in some people’s minds. For a while there, the gang at Nalcor sounded li...
23 July 2012

More Muskrat Falls Sunk Cost #nlpoli

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That $350 million in sunk costs from Monday morning’s post wasn’t the whole story, of course.  You’ll find more detail – and lots more ca...

Rae backs Muskrat…sort of #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Big screaming CBC headline : Federal Liberals support Muskrat Falls project:  Rae Then you read the story.

Sunk Cost – Muskrat Falls #nlpoli

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The chart below is taken from a Nalcor information hand-out describing the project’s capital expenditures to the end of March 2011. What ...
21 July 2012

Ya wanna know what stupid is? #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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According to information supplied to the news media – and widely reported already – the helicopter from 444 Squadron used for a training fli...