Let's see if we can follow a path.
I really appreciate these routes from here to there.
Today comes the announcement that former Premier Danny Williams has accepted an appointment as Special Advisor to the Chairman of Alderon Iron Ore Corporation.
In this case he follows his Former Clerk of the Executive Council and Secretary to the Cabinet - Gary Norris who announced his retirement when? Well that was announced on November 30th 2010 and took effect December 3rd of 2010.
He had been appointed to the position by Danny on May 30th 2007.
Danny's Retirement Announced on November 25th of 2010 effective December 3rd of 2010.
Well just so happens that Gary Norris had also landed at Alderon - yes he in fact is the Executive VP - Government and Community Affairs - Alderon.
Now Gary Norris held the position of Deputy Clerk - under Brian Tobin - then as Clerk under Beaton Tulk then was moved out of the office by Roger Grimes when he became Premier.
Now Alderon also has another familiar name - Brian Dalton - he is on the Board of Alderon - and of course is the President and CEO of Altius Minerals. Then of course:
Altius entered into an agreement with respect to
its Kamistiatusset ("Kami") iron ore project in November 2009 as part of its
merchant-banking like approach to co-found a new public company to explore the
project and western Labrador region. The agreement resulted in the restructuring
and financing of Alderon
Resources Corp. (ADV:TSX-V) who in December 2010 fulfilled its option agreement terms
with Altius to earn 100%
interest in the Kamistiatusset iron ore project (“Kami”) by issuing Altius 32,285,006 payment shares of Alderon (representing approximately 37% of the
issued Alderon common shares). Altius also retains a 3% gross sales royalty
relating to any potential future mining operations.
Now Brian Dalton did this: The royalty was created in June 2005 following 2 years of successful
exploration in the CMB when Altius and its partner, Fronteer Development Group,
restructured their exploration alliance as part of a longer-term business
strategy to create a new pure uranium company - Aurora Energy Resources Inc. (TSX:AXU).
The agreement structure and launch of Aurora effectively converted Altius
property ownership into an equity stake in the new uranium company and an
underlying royalty covering Aurora's Labrador properties. By October 2007
Altius had sold its entire equity stake in Aurora for gross proceeds in excess
of $200 million, while still retaining its royalty position over the properties.
Now Aurora then appointed Dean MacDonald to it's Board of Directors - problem was Dean was also the Chair of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro. The appointment lasted 48 hours. Dean resigned - funny that.
Meanwhile back at the ranch there was a fellow called Todd Burlingame - who up until 2011 was sitting as the Manager of Environment and Aboriginal Affairs for Nalcor including during the Joint Review Panel. Well guess what? Mr. Burlingame is also now on the payroll of Alderon and was appointed the same day as Gary Norris.
Mark J. Morabito Executive Chairman Board of Alderon - described Burlingame and Norris this way: “Our Executive VP of Environmental and Aboriginal Affairs is Todd
Burlingame,” Morabito adds. "His last big permitting project was the
Lower Churchill hydro project, 3,000 megawatts and right in the same
area with all the same stakeholders. Gary Norris was the former head of
the Newfoundland civil service; he’s our VP of Government and Community
Affairs."
Next of course we will follow then the path of Canadian Imperial Venture Corporation, Brian Tobin, Consolidated Thompson, Dean MacDonald, Persona, Cable Atlantic - and all the Labrador projects you can suffer.
Also we have to see what all were up to when in November of 2011 Province to Participate in Asian Conference in Support of Mineral Exploration and Investment Opportunities
Participating
companies include Alderon Iron Corporation, Altius Minerals Corporation,
Century Iron Mines, Grand River Ironsands, Labrador Iron Mines, and New
Millennium Iron Corporation.
By the way is Dean going to run for the leader of the Liberal Party or will he try and influence from another position within the party? Gotta keep the train going. Brian Choo Choo - Danny Choo Choo - and Dean Choo Choo. What kind of train do you think they might be operating?
2 comments:
Thanks Sue! I can't help but muse on how, we, the unsuspecting electorate, have been shafted for the past 500 years, and especially so for the past 62 years.
Two Masters cannot be served at the same time, and it seems like our politicians, down through the years, served themselves and severely neglected us, their electorate.
I can't wait for the corruption era, which seems to have been brought about by Global Free Trade Movement, to end.
I wonder what the Icelanders did about this issue when they rewrote their constitution?
Blind Trusts are clearly not enough. Using politics to gain access to these resource companies and our resources is not fair game.
Can we insist on a five year clause in all executive positions in government that will keep people who leave politics from being involved in resource development?
All correspondence between resource companies and executives need to be made available to a committee elected by the people.
This needs a new solution, that's for sure. It has gone on for far too long and these people are enriching themselves at our expense.
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