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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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15 September 2009
Half-million in free money for local business
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Called a contribution, $500,000 handed out today to a local offshore supply and service company from the provincial government doesn’t have...
Way less for way more in Lewisporte
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While everyone is talking about the removal of laboratory and x-ray services from Lewisporte, a much larger cut seems to have escaped publi...
Reaping the wind
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A little over a year after the contract was awarded, Technip and StatoilHydro have launched the first floating wind turbine offshore Norwa...
The joy of accountability
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Here’s a picture of a government being held accountable for its actions. At left is a picture of the parliamentary secretary to the gove...
14 September 2009
There are no coincidences, Northern Peninsula version
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There is absolutely no connection between a sudden announcement that the Premier would make a big money announcement within two hours and...
Much less for way more in St. Anthony
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Costs for a new sports and conference centre for St. Anthony have already jumped 70% over the original budget and no one has even broken gro...
13 September 2009
Questions in search of answers
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Just a few observations on announcements from the province’s health ministry lately. 1. labradore points out that others – like the loca...
Duff points out obvious: Keith Coombs has no cred on city finances
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Okay, right off the bat there has to be the fairly obvious point: the guy who oversaw the Mile One stadium money pit and has been known to ...
The Cruel Shoes
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The picture says it all. Suddenly, Jack Layton is suddenly not so keen on an election. He’s talking about making parliament work, about ...
12 September 2009
Megamania: NL falls farther behind in wind energy development
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While it has huge potential in wind energy, Newfoundland and Labrador currently has less than 60 megawatts in production or in development. ...
From the rumour mill: municipal politics version
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Stuff you hear around. Could be real. Could be something else. You decide. 1. Win or lose – and more likely the latter than the for...
11 September 2009
From the rumour mill: electricity stuff you hear around town
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A compendium of the stuff ordinary people have been saying. Could be true. Could be complete bullshit. 1. NALCO will have to do a m...
10 September 2009
Hydro Quebec not an issue: Ed Martin
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A few days before Danny Williams tried to blame Hydro-Quebec for delays and problems in the Lower Churchill project, NALCO chief executive E...
Signing his own death warrant
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Newfoundland and Labrador information commissioner Ed Ring is welcoming a court case that will settle once and for all a dispute with the ...
Just say “No!”
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Federal finance leprechaun Jim Flaherty thinks the federal government will take a while to get out of deficit spending and doing that will t...
Oram and Williams give wildly contradictory accounts of Lewisporte decision
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As a sharp-eared reader picked up, the raw video of the Premier’s scrum revealed that Lewisporte MHA Wade Verge knew about cuts to health s...
Expropriation by the numbers
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At long last the rest of us get to see some of the simple print ads that have been causing such political consternation in central Newfound...
09 September 2009
Freedom from Information: thousands of bucks for the Premier’s public speeches, redacted
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It’s a bit of a hairy-assed editing job but the youtube video posted by VOCM includes a curious reference by the Premier to some of the acce...
Cross Rhode Island off the power purchase list
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Remember the missing memorandum of understanding with Rhode Island that was supposed to study shipping a couple of hundred megawatts of pow...
A curious misuse of words
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Over the past couple of years, Premier Danny Williams and his cabinet got into the habit of referring to 2041 as the year that the Churchill...
NL caught screwing with Churchill Falls: the quotes
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Yet more on the story of the year that everyone has thus far ignored. 1. What part of “F**k off!” wasn’t clear? From Dave Bartlett’s ...
Churchill Falls reversion fails for second time
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The Newfoundland and Labrador government is making quick changes to a 2008 law after lawyers for the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation...
08 September 2009
Giving HQ an ownership stake in the Lower Churchill
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Via labradore, yet more connected to Kathy Dunderdale’s surprise admission last Friday that the provincial government wants Hydro Quebec t...
07 September 2009
Signs of impending fun…
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1. An IP address from Hydro Quebec starts prowling around. 2. Dipper astroturf starts showing up in the comments section of any post tha...
So what happened to the Chinese?
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The year is 2004. The provincial government signs a secret deal with a group of companies – including one owned by the Chinese government...
06 September 2009
Forward not backward!
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We’ve had Rip-Off Ron , the mayoral candidate who likes to lift other people’s campaign slogans . Now, we have a deputy mayor who makes th...
04 September 2009
Williams miffed Hydro Quebec rejecting ownership stake in Lower Churchill
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Far from going it alone on the Lower Churchill or seriously pursuing a transmission route around Quebec, the Williams administration has be...
Clued out
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Lorraine Michael needs to read more or get better research staff . "I'm glad that the premier has finally shown that he believ...
03 September 2009
You’re welcome
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“The argument was made, quite rightly , by people that you don’t want to create an eyesore in…one of our best tourism attractions in the ...
Two wrongs… and you get a news story
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Both VOCM and the Telegram incorrectly reported the latest poll results from government sponsored polls on Thursday. VOCM reported that t...
If we build it…
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From nottawa , one take on the curious case of a government building a new health centre while at the same time shifting health services out...
Timing
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According to Premier Danny Williams , the Tory backbencher representing Lewisporte was told “some time ago” that health services in the town...
Late summer re-run
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Pushing the Lower Churchill, the 2006 version. Pushing the Lower Churchill, the 2009 version. After all, it worked so well the last ti...
Freedom from Information: Conference Prep Kit
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Information and privacy commissioners from across Canada can count on support from Bond Papers as they gather in St. John’s next week for t...
A mine of information for an enemy
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What Maxime Bernier left laying about, courtesy of Le Devoir . Les documents oubliƩs par Maxime Bernier chez Julie Couillard en avril 2...
Convenient Craftiness?
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Tory backbencher Wade Verge is pissed because he wasn’t told health services in his district were on the chopping block. The Premier is d...
02 September 2009
Meanwhile, down the other rabbit hole…
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The Dippers - who only a few days ago were sending around publicly-funded propaganda about the number of times Liberals have backed Stephen...
It’s still fire truck month
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With Labour Day falling late this year, the government’s official pollster is likely still in the field. That likely explains the flurry o...
A world of his own
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“If I had a world of my own,” said Alice, “everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn...
Confusion reigns in election story
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So which is it? Are election campaigns too expensive or is “at large” candidate Sheilagh O’Leary having trouble raising money because none...
Campaign College: Sign Design 101
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There is a difference between political communications and advertising. Here’s a simple, graphic example. One of the signs in these pi...
01 September 2009
Curiouser and curiouser!
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Even in the Land Through the Looking Glass that is Newfoundland and Labrador these days, a news release about an emergency session of the Ho...
Municipal election reality reminder
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There are three weeks left in the municipal election in St. John’s. Ballot kits go out in the mail on Friday, September 11 and they will s...
Big poll goose but less money for forestry than claimed
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Throughout 2008 and 2009, the provincial government claimed it created a forest sector diversification program in 2008 worth $14 million, bu...
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