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Last week you spewed out something about New Brunswick wanting a block of power - yep they want more than that - they probably want Newfoundland and Labrador to pay for the Power Corridor they want with Maine - funny they have a Memorandum of Understanding - what do we have?
Another one at the trough for Labrador Power to develop industry in Maine and New Brunswick.
Here's the latest out of Maine - you know - our potential customer!
Here's a taste of a story in the Bangor Daily News:
BANGOR - Maine and New Brunswick committed Friday to exploring a joint power pool from which the state and province could draw and share electricity.
Gov. John Baldacci and Premier of New Brunswick Shawn Graham beamed as they signed an agreement to form a partnership and analyze the legal, technical and environmental implications of sharing power across the border.
They addressed an audience of about 30 local business owners, lawyers and representatives of local power companies at the Eastern Maine Community College library.
"I’ve talked more on the phone to Premier Graham [in the last four months] than I have to any other premier in the last four years," Baldacci said. "Together we can expand the clean energy market, reduce carbon pollution, all the while creating new jobs and increasing the production of a clean, environmentally responsible product we can export to both countries."
Now what does that say Williams - when the Governor of Maine is on the phone with Shawn Graham (Premier NB) 4 times more than with you or any other Premier? Who is it that has all the power potential again?
Gas
Oil
Wind
Tidal
Wave
Hydro
That's Newfoundland and Labrador - what does New Brunswick offer????
6 comments:
New Brunswick has plenty of electric power to offer including from Point Lepreau.
Your last question suggests you really don't know what we have over here.
How come you didn't print a copy of the agreement?
Your comments sound like so much sour grapes.
No at all - congratulations New Brunswick - You are however interested in a block of our clean hydro power and also the export of it. You are not oil and gas rich and not comparable in the wave tide and wind potentials.
Else you would want to remove non-renewable resources from the equalization formula.
I was not addressing New Brunswick - I was addressing Danny Williams.
Sue - If Newfoundland and Labrador put a question to Canadians asking
Canadians if they thought Newfoundland and Labrador was void of resources, and whether they thought it was a basket case, I bet you 95% of Canadians would say that we are just that and that we are a drain on Canada. They would hold the opinion of someone like the late Charles Lynch. Just imagine a learned man not knowing what we possessed in resources. But, then, how do you expect Canadians to know? We are not out there touting our horns telling them what we have, what we have given away to Canada and the world, and how we truly have been treated in Canada.
When I read the comment of your first Anon who appears to be from New Brunswick and thinks New Brunswick is well endowed, the question above came to my mind. This person probably does not have an inkling as to what Newfoundland and Labrador possesses in Energy. We have to educate these people or how else will they get to know? Their politicians are not going to tell them how much Newfoundland and Labrador contributed to Canada, certainly not Federal politicians, that will be divulging what Newfoundland and Labrador contributes to Canada. Politicians would rather keep that a secret and let people think Newfoundland and Labrador have no resources and that we rely solely on equilzation monies, all the while contributing nothing in return.
We have to shout it out to Canadians that we are a very resource rich province and that is the only way they will ever find out.
It has been kept very quiet, too quiet, for far too long as to what Newfoundland and Labrador contributes to Canada. It is now time that we shouted it from the rooftops. I, for one, do not want to be treated like the poorer cousin any longer in this country.
Sue, as I said yesterday, your comments sound like sour grapes or maybe something else.
New Brunswick isn't interested in a block of your clean hydro power and also the export of it.
New Brunswick already has power it can export to Maine. We don't need your hydro power. And no we don't have hydro power so the whole thing with non-renewables is different here. What you want to do will screw us to the wall, but I guess that doesn't matter.
You go fight with Danny Williams all you want, but leave New Burnswick out of it.
And hey, other anonymous, if you people don't even know what goes on in New Brunswick like you and Sue don't seem to know, better spend time educating yourselves. Don't need to waste time "educating" me or anyone else.
You and Sue make it pretty clear you don't know what's going on.
What's odd here - is that the comment from NB is coming from a NL address...
Canada's dirtiest biggest secret is what Newfoundland and Labrador contributes to Canada. I blame the Newfoundland and Labrador politicians who served this province poorly and kept their mouths shut so as not to disturb what they themselves would reap from political life, and of course, Canada was only too happy to oblige with the secret since it kept things quiet on the Quebec front, especially when it came to the Hydroelectric Energy and Minerals that were going out of Labrador to the province of Quebec. It made things much easier for Ottawa, and Newfoundland and Labrador politicians had much more cushy jobs as a result, because they didn't even open their mouths to tell our side of the story of how it was impoverishing Newfoundland and Labrador.
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