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31 July 2013

Relative Costs #nlpoli

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Leave entirely to one side the spectacle of the guy who gets paid as the consumer advocate sitting there on the CBC flailing his arms around...
30 July 2013

The Cabana Cases #nlpoli

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For those who want to read them, here are two decisions related to Brad Cabana’s recent Muskrat Falls case. The first is the decision on h...

Voids and Spatter #nlpoli

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Watch too many crime shows and after a while a few of the ideas start to sing into your skull. Take blood spatter for example.  In some ki...
29 July 2013

Yakabuski nails it… again. #nlpoli

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Konrad Yakabuski warned in 2006 that Newfoundland and Labrador would probably get a huge financial shock  trying to develop the Lower Churc...

More Gil Bennett nuttiness #nlpoli

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Gill Bennett is a smart guy.  That’s why he is in charge of a project as large as Muskrat Falls. So when Gil Bennett says something that o...
27 July 2013

Look to Quebec courts, not prov gov for disclosure: Marshall #nlpoli

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The people of Newfoundland and Labrador won;t get information on Muskrat falls water management from the provincial government or its energy...

Dunder-Dex offside with Emera #nlpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli

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Premiers Kathy Dunderdale and Darrell Dexter may be telling everyone that the Maritime Link can;t be stopped but the private sector company ...
26 July 2013

The price of a dam #nlpoli

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If crap was electricity,  Nalcor would have the market cornered. Da byes running the Muskrat falls project are very good at spewing words ...

Like water for muskrats #nlpoli

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Wednesday it was Kathy Dunderdale. Thursday, they sent Tom Marshall to chat with Bill Rowe on Open Line to do damage control in the wake ...
25 July 2013

Bubbles and the Politics of Neener-Neener-Neener #nlpoli

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Kathy Dunderdale called Bill Rowe on Wednesday [via daveadey ] to have one of her periodic core dumps on what is going on in the universe. ...
24 July 2013

The Hydro-Quebec Statement of Claim #nlpoli

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Via labradore , the statement of claim filed on behalf of Hydro-Quebec earlier this week. You can search it and read it in English.  Thos...

A party like the others #nlpoli

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Among the oldest of old Canadian political jokes is that you went to the Tory conventions to drink, the Liberal conventions to get laid, and...

There’s desperate and then there’s Dunderdale #nlpoli

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Take away the bluster :  “The agenda won’t be set by Quebec in terms of how we do our work, how we develop our resources, and how we access ...
23 July 2013

UARB: “substantial uncertainty” about Nalcor supply of market-priced energy #nlpoli

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You can read the full decision by the UARB ( pdf ) but here are some points to note. Right off the bat, you will see in the full report th...

Pride goeth, more undisclosed risk, and all that #nlpoli

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There are so many ways that Ed Martin, his crew at Nalcor, and the provincial Conservatives and all their supporters have screwed themselves...
22 July 2013

Hydro-Quebec to seek clarity on contract rights #nlpoli

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From Hydro-Quebec : MONTREAL, July 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Hydro-Québec is filing a motion today with the Québec Superior Court to obta...

So what’s Kathy’s problem? #nlpoli

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So if Stephen Harper’s staffing problem is that “ all the good ones quit ”,  what is the story on the staffing problems in Kathy Dunderdale’...

The Imaginary Nation #nlpoli

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Look at the shelves in any bookstore around town these days and you will likely see endless copies of Greg Malone’s book Don’t tell the Newf...
19 July 2013

History’s Bitch #nlpoli

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A half century ago, a bunch of very smart fellows – some of the smartest fellows of any generation ever – wanted to build a massive  plant i...
18 July 2013

You got cash? They’ve got a party. #nlpoli

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The party that brought the province its first and only election finance law in 1991 is currently in the midst of a campaign to select its o...