Below is a quote from former Premier Danny Williams as reported by CBC NL
"People have a right to scrutinize. People have a right to ask questions. You know, I welcome that," he said. "The last thing that I would want to do as a former premier or Premier Dunderdale would want to do as the current Premier is do a bad project. So the more questions that are asked and answered are good. And I'm sure whether it's premier Dunderdale or It's Nalcor energy, if they see something they can tweak and make that a better project, they'd only be too delighted. it's better to find out now than later."
So Danny is finding a way to stick this deal to Kathy Dunderdale - clever as always. Read it carefully. Tory Cabinet Ministers should read their former boss's comments carefully. They had better make sure they "tweak" the deal or they might make a bad deal.
He knows what the problems are with the deal - at least the problems that are evident for the people/ratepayers. The money boys are all over it and want us - the owners of the resource to line their pockets with profit.
When Newfoundland and Labrador is already supplying 10% of the clean hydro power to Canada compared to under 1% supplied by each of PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Alberta, and less than 2% from Saskatchewan - we are hardly "needing" to contribute more to greening up Canada.
Worse when mighty Ontario is generating less hydro-power than Newfoundland and Labrador yet is full of industry and growing in population - Minister Skinner, Premier Dunderdale and the rest of Cabinet had better rethink the strategy of delivering our superior power to them. This is beyond "inadequate" - this is ludicrous.
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1 comment:
ex-Premier Danny Williams says "People have a right to scrutinize. People have a right to ask questions".
WELL MR. WILLIAMS how can we scrutinize and ask questions on what's in the Muskrat Falls Contract when certain parts of it are off-limit to us? Most likely the parts of the contract that are off limit would be where any questions we have would be focused? How can we put our okay on it? So Premier Dunderdale expose the whole Contact to the people who should know what is contained within it, the electorate of Newfoundland and Labrador.
And Yes, Sue, Premier Dunderdale will be on the hook equally as much as ex-Premier Williams will be if she allows a bad contract to be inked.
When ex-Premier Williams was at the helm I felt confident that bad deals on our natural resources were a thing of the past and never again would it happen. From all the info I have so far gleaned on this Muskrat Falls Contract it appears to be as bad as the Upper Churchill Contract.
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