"...will have the assurance of a redundancy of fibre optic networks connecting the province to the mainland"
Shawn Skinner 2011 Telegram Today
Now its all about redundancy and the importance of having mainland supply for backup. Think about what the Ministers are saying. Same message from Trevor and Shawn and the same arguments created by the Dean MacDonald's and Danny Williams of the world.
Our province should have had security of supply decades ago and it would have been self-reliance. Labrador should be fully powered by hydro - with redundancies - domestic built in - same way for the Island. Now it is make the shocking deal with Emera - necessary - in the same way they made the shocking deal with Persona necessary.
It`s all about getting money into shareholders hands - and not for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. If the media did some fact checking they would find other similarities with the two deals - like why tenders were not called and why our people were and are the ones holding the debt - and how long these two investments would take to pay themselves off.
This is not an energy plan and like the fibre optic deal it is going to cost us a fortune for particular shareholders to make a load of cash. I have not spent 20 years of my life dealing with energy issues in this province - for the sake of criticizing - I have done so to avoid catastrophic deals which in the end will ruin the future for yet more generations to come.
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Does it get any better than this folks ?
Import energy!!!! From Nova Scotia's EMERA maybe .At what price ,oh say 14.5 kw . We give it away and then we buy it back .Who pays for all of this mess , you and me , folks , you and me .
What's the use of planning for retirement in this province ,at the rate our politicians are giving it away , there won't be anything left for us . It will be 1949 all over again ,only this time the province won't have any resources to bargain with .
Do these ministers use their sleep time to dream up these calamitous schemes* ?
*We’re anticipating to mostly use it to export excess capacity, excess electricity into the Atlantic provinces and the northeast United States, but in the event of a catastrophe … it would be possible for us to import electricity,” Skinner said in a recent interview.
Unless there is something in this deal, that is not evident to the naked eye, that makes this Lower Churchill proposed Contract greatly beneficial to the province and people of Newfoundland and Labrador, well then I think it should not go ahead, and if there are benefits, then our government should point them out to us so that we are more educated on what we are blindly asked to accept in that secluded contract. (Without the details how do I know what our government has drawn up for us to accept, it could have no benefits at all for our people for 50 years hence and we might have to face an electrical bill that escalates out of sight); and there might not be a provision in it for an allotment of energy to fuel industry for the province. Our politicians know as well as we, the electorate, do on how badly we were shafted from creating a vibrant economy in our province from the fruits of the Upper Churchill contract over the past 40 years, and it is only right for us not to want to repeat such an Evil Deal and to be careful concerning what our government leaders sign for us on the dotted line. If we can't get a deal that creates some industry and jobs, and a subdued rate in our electrical bill, well then leave the natural surroundings the way they are and let the naturalists enjoy the beauty of the area instead of giving it away, the Toruism industry can bring in as many dollars as a bad energy-contract.
To conclude, I am sure our government will understand that we, the shafted Newfoundland and Labrador electorate, will want to know what is in that contract before the final signature is put onto it.
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