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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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16 March 2012
Nova Scotia would get Churchill Falls power for free #nlpoli
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If you’ve been following the ongoing Muskrat Falls saga, you will recall that energy analyst Tom Adams raised some questions a couple of mo...
15 March 2012
The Ides of March, 2012 #nlpoli
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Twitter is a wonderful thing except that sometimes you can’t use the whole of a great quote. The following is a larger bit of one quote th...
To Encourage the Others #nlpoli
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Lots of people look to leaders in a crisis to see what lessons they can learn. Well, Kathy Dunderdale is special. She is an excellent e...
Government hiring process revealed #nlpoli
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From your humble e-scribbler’s e-mail this week came a copy of what is purported by an anonymous e-mail to be a sooper sekrit document. It...
It’s all about export, eh #nlpoli
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On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 p...
14 March 2012
If the people are silent… #nlpoli
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…if the people are silent, you call them content; if they protest, you say that they are given to disorder; and in the one case as in th...
Unions oppose energy conservation device #nlpoli
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Unions representing Hydro-Quebec employees are oppose to a plan to install so-called smart meters in Quebec homes. According to the Montrea...
When you suddenly become the enemy… #nlpoli
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For those of us in Newfoundland and Labrador who - from the outset - opposed the political style that settled on this province after 2003, ...
13 March 2012
Discussion is healthy, indeed #nlpoli
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From the Telegram a former chief of staff in the Premier’s Office puts it as eloquently as only he could: If public discussion, questi...
Lay-offs, Noseworthy and other things the Premier talked about #nlpoli
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Listen closely and you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck of government comms as it backs up on the idea of laying off public ...
Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn’t say #nlpoli
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In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told ...
12 March 2012
Government cash give-aways #nlpoli
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CBC’s Rob Antle has updated work done over the past couple of years on government give-aways to private sector businesses in the name of ec...
Poll Math #nlpoli
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Just for the heck of it, here’s the most recent CRA marketing poll adjusted to take out the misleading way CRA reports its clients poll num...
Dundernomics 101: Public Sector Employment Numbers #nlpoli
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In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane , Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the p...
10 March 2012
The truth is an absolute defence #nlpoli
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Seems that the goings-on in the provincial legislature are weighing heavy on many brows at the end of the first week the place is back in se...
09 March 2012
CNLOPB announces 2012 call for bids on offshore parcels #nlpoli
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From the offshore regulatory board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today the details...
Kremlinology 38: what they left out #nlpoli
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In a news release from the federal natural resources minister that heralded the future of Newfoundland and Labrador is energy, they didn’t ...
Enough of the Political Day-Care #nlpoli
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In some respects, it is a threat that would strike fear only into the hearts of Danny Williams’ Tories: If this problem is not resolve...
08 March 2012
How much is that Muskrat in the window? #nlpoli
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So without much effort, the cost of Muskrat Falls, also known as the island infeed project, has gone from $6.2 billion to $8.9 billion . T...
They who lived by the bullshit… #nlpoli
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Regular readers of these e-scribbles will know that the quarterly Corporate Research Associates poll is cause for nothing if not a fair bit ...
Shooting fish in a barrel #nlpoli
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Okay. So with the Premier babbling about cuts or not cuts, you could guess where the opposition parties would go during their second Quest...
07 March 2012
Studies on mortality questioned #nlpoli
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Studies that claim exercise reduces the risk of mortality can’t be true since the risk of mortality is absolute. You can delay death, but ...
Checking Jerome’s Numbers #nlpoli
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In the House of Assembly on Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy said: The Muskrat Falls Generating Station will cost $2...
Dundernomics 101: The Cleary Factor #nlpoli
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The gang at CBC shouldn’t feel sheepish. They might have been the ones who pushed it most aggressively but they weren’t the only news out...
06 March 2012
He said. She said. “Expenditure review” edition #nlpoli
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Starve reporters for real news and you can apparently make them believe anything. That seems to be the case with the idea that Kathy Dunde...
New partners and new supplicants #nlpoli
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After the throne speech, the leaders of the opposition parties get to have their say in the legislature. Just as the throne speech sets t...
New Energy? Same Old Stuff #nlpoli
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After more than a year in office and the better part of six months after the last election, the Dunderdale Tories delivered their second thr...
05 March 2012
…fairness and balance for all the people of our province… #nlpoli
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Excerpts from remarks by Clyde Wells, Leader of the Opposition, in the House of Assembly, in reply to the Speech from the Throne, March 10, ...
Sound Advice #nlpoli
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Some people don’t like John Furlong’s ideas. Here’s his latest one – on the fishery , again – but it is equally applicable to just about e...
Can we believe anything he says? #nlpoli
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Climb-down Cleary is at it again. Not surprisingly, Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is furiously sucking back his latest ef...
03 March 2012
Our plastic history, utter contempt version #nlpoli
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On Friday, the Telegram’s Brian Jones takes issue with fisheries minister Darin King: Fisheries Minister Darin King’s tantrum this we...
02 March 2012
$#*! politicians say, pensions edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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If you could get Noob Bloc-NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth , you could ...
Electricity prices round-up #nlpoli
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In Quebec , Arcelor Mittal mines is looking to hang onto its industrial discount electricity rate of 4.5 cents per kilowatt hour even thoug...
01 March 2012
Countering Nalcor Negativity #nlpoli
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In a speech to the St. John’s board of trade this week, Nalcor chief executive Ed Martin dissed natural gas as a possible alternative to his...
The Old Boys (and Girls) Club #nlpoli
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The always provocative and informative labradore posted a chart on Wednesday showing the number of days the House of Assembly sat in each s...
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