The Population of the Province is down again from last year.
Where's the need for power?
Industry gone - people continue to go - where's the increase?
There will continue to be a loss of people - go to Nova Scotia for cheaper power rates and industry being developed there.
If you are looking for ship building - go to Nova Scotia.
If you are looking to fish - go to Iceland or go to China for processing jobs.
If you are looking for industry like pulp and paper, smelting, aerospace, auto sector, just move to Ontario and Quebec.
If Muskrat goes ahead - we will have set ourselves on a path of no return. All will be lost.
Dunderdale said last night in the debate that nobody has been able to show them where their figures are wrong.
Is their prediction on oil prices 20 years out - a fact?
Are their predictions regarding "need" for new power facts?
What a joke.
I can say that - although oil kept us away from most recessionary problems - doubling electricity rates will cripple business and industry and poison discretionary spending by consumers. It may very well cause a local recession.
The Premier also forgot the criticisms of the Independent Review Panel. Did they question anything?
The only scary thing in this election is the Muskrat Falls deal. It must be stopped.
The best comment in the debate was from Aylward when he suggested the Ms. Dunderdale should be the Premier of Nova Scotia. That was appropriate based on the Muskrat deal proposed.
Everybody is wrong except Nalcor, PC Cabinet, and Navigant.
Be prepared Newfoundland and Labrador - wait until Hydro HAS to be privatized and Gull Island will have to be developed by private interests. Of course they will also claim this new power will have to go through Quebec. Sold out!
How much time did the Premier spend talking about the benefits to Labrador?
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Oh No! Helping Pensioners, Rebuilding Rural NL the fishery, Stopping Muskrat
The minute Liberal leader Kevin Aylward said that he had a solution for the public service pensioners - the place went up. The Leader of the NDP, Lorraine Michael - the professed protector of seniors and the promoter of quality of life for all - says Kevin is irresponsible. Amazing - well it's simple for the pensioners isn't it? No raise no vote. Well that puts 22,000 people in the Liberal camp. They would have family too and that could bring it to well over 40,000 people.
Then there are the fishermen and plant workers. The loss of 40,000 people times 2 and the continued decimation of this tremendous founding resource. The outmigration, the breakup of families either permanently or temporarily, in order to survive what is the biggest industrial loss per-capita on the planet. A billion a year lost from our economy. Seniors without their children and grandchildren. Communities lost to greed by other countries, gross mismanagement at the hands of our Federal Government, continued merchant mentality, incompetence within our provincial government, and the lack of caring by people that are self-absorbed with an "it does not affect me" attitude. So Kevin Aylward speaks to this and attempts to start to put things right. Let's all attack this? Okay so coastal rural Newfoundland and Labrador are all in the Liberal camp. Their children and grandchildren are all in as they watch their communities die.
Next up the pharmacy owners from throughout the province with decades of service to rural communities and inner-city neighbourhoods. The PC's say no to even talking to these people. The NDP have avoided the subject in their campaign, and the Liberals have the most progressive policy in the country - dealing with issues such as lowering drug costs, medication and disease management - all of which save money and improve service. Well that must mean tens of thousands of people are with the Liberals. The Tories new platform has the cost of drugs going down - but with no plan for pharmacy to be able to dispense and counsel on those drugs. Rural NL will be gutted.
Then there is a forestry policy or the lack thereof from the Tories; who have managed to remove two-thirds of the industry from our province. The party who claims to be helping Stephenville and Grand Falls-Windsor has through incompetence removed the grand forestry sector heritage. They have removed high-paying jobs and sent more people to collect a check in Alberta. So Aylward wants to redevelop this sector - must be thousands involved here.
Then we have Muskrat Falls - the giveaway of our life-time - and Aylward is standing square against it. Willing to look at alternatives - taking a better route to find a deal. Gilbert Bennett - remove Holyrood and help out Nova Scotia - and spend 6 1/2 billion to do it? Excuse me?
I will wait to see more from Libs on energy policy.
Rural Newfoundland and the Big Land have to oust this government or they will be sold down an all to familiar river. The Churchill should be etched in our heads so that we may finally start to do something right - this time around.
Then there are the fishermen and plant workers. The loss of 40,000 people times 2 and the continued decimation of this tremendous founding resource. The outmigration, the breakup of families either permanently or temporarily, in order to survive what is the biggest industrial loss per-capita on the planet. A billion a year lost from our economy. Seniors without their children and grandchildren. Communities lost to greed by other countries, gross mismanagement at the hands of our Federal Government, continued merchant mentality, incompetence within our provincial government, and the lack of caring by people that are self-absorbed with an "it does not affect me" attitude. So Kevin Aylward speaks to this and attempts to start to put things right. Let's all attack this? Okay so coastal rural Newfoundland and Labrador are all in the Liberal camp. Their children and grandchildren are all in as they watch their communities die.
Next up the pharmacy owners from throughout the province with decades of service to rural communities and inner-city neighbourhoods. The PC's say no to even talking to these people. The NDP have avoided the subject in their campaign, and the Liberals have the most progressive policy in the country - dealing with issues such as lowering drug costs, medication and disease management - all of which save money and improve service. Well that must mean tens of thousands of people are with the Liberals. The Tories new platform has the cost of drugs going down - but with no plan for pharmacy to be able to dispense and counsel on those drugs. Rural NL will be gutted.
Then there is a forestry policy or the lack thereof from the Tories; who have managed to remove two-thirds of the industry from our province. The party who claims to be helping Stephenville and Grand Falls-Windsor has through incompetence removed the grand forestry sector heritage. They have removed high-paying jobs and sent more people to collect a check in Alberta. So Aylward wants to redevelop this sector - must be thousands involved here.
Then we have Muskrat Falls - the giveaway of our life-time - and Aylward is standing square against it. Willing to look at alternatives - taking a better route to find a deal. Gilbert Bennett - remove Holyrood and help out Nova Scotia - and spend 6 1/2 billion to do it? Excuse me?
I will wait to see more from Libs on energy policy.
Rural Newfoundland and the Big Land have to oust this government or they will be sold down an all to familiar river. The Churchill should be etched in our heads so that we may finally start to do something right - this time around.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Overpass Syndrome in Reverse - Rural NL taking back the Power
This election is starting to get real interesting. The Overpass syndrome is starting to reverse. Rural Newfoundland and Labrador is starting to move toward "it's our turn", and so it is.
You see the PC's and NDP can fight it out in St. John's Metro while rural districts can win the day by voting Liberal. The platforms are gearing up and policies are coming out. For rural communities and districts the message from the Liberals and leader Kevin Aylward is that it's time for oil wealth to be used to revitalize the rest of the province. It's time to deal with the fishery, the paper-mills, mining, renewable energy, and tourism.
If rural Newfoundland and Labrador wants to reverse the trend of outmigration, chronic unemployment, loss of industry, and diminishing services in health and education - then they vote Liberal and invest the oil wealth outside of St. John's Metro. With six percent unemployment in St. John's Metro and over twenty-five per cent in other regions there are plenty of reasons to take control of the seats in the House of Assembly.
From a Labrador perspective, the Lower Churchill could be focused on industrial development and clean hydro for all the Big Land with revenues generated to be spent primarily on an adjacent basis.
Labrador could reach it's real potential and not continually be hearing - we'll get you next time around. When one thinks that Muskrat Falls is being developed to remove Holyrood and provide Nova Scotia with cheaper power - Labradorians are hard pressed to see that anything has changed. The truth is Labrador should not allow anymore development of its hydro resources unless they get at least 10 permanent jobs a megawatt. Labrador will get the temporary construction jobs regardless of what the deal is - they need a longer term agenda. This is something they might get under the Liberals this time around.
The Tories cannot demonstrate the need for Muskrat - at least not for the need they suggest. The Tories are routinely telling people and groups to go away, stop getting on talk-show programs, stop protesting, do as we say, do not oppose, and if you want anything do not speak against us. The Tories are pointing accusatory fingers when the Liberals promise a needed increase for public service pensioners but do not at all question how they spend and on what. The Tories have abandoned the fishery, abandoned the paper towns, abandoned rural communities, abandoned ordinary Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, abandoned the Big Land, and increased cronyism and the public service by 20 per cent.
Yes the time for the overpass syndrome to be reversed is now - and I believe it may just happen. There's nothing better for arrogance than a swift kick by rural Newfoundland and the Big Land.
You see the PC's and NDP can fight it out in St. John's Metro while rural districts can win the day by voting Liberal. The platforms are gearing up and policies are coming out. For rural communities and districts the message from the Liberals and leader Kevin Aylward is that it's time for oil wealth to be used to revitalize the rest of the province. It's time to deal with the fishery, the paper-mills, mining, renewable energy, and tourism.
If rural Newfoundland and Labrador wants to reverse the trend of outmigration, chronic unemployment, loss of industry, and diminishing services in health and education - then they vote Liberal and invest the oil wealth outside of St. John's Metro. With six percent unemployment in St. John's Metro and over twenty-five per cent in other regions there are plenty of reasons to take control of the seats in the House of Assembly.
From a Labrador perspective, the Lower Churchill could be focused on industrial development and clean hydro for all the Big Land with revenues generated to be spent primarily on an adjacent basis.
Labrador could reach it's real potential and not continually be hearing - we'll get you next time around. When one thinks that Muskrat Falls is being developed to remove Holyrood and provide Nova Scotia with cheaper power - Labradorians are hard pressed to see that anything has changed. The truth is Labrador should not allow anymore development of its hydro resources unless they get at least 10 permanent jobs a megawatt. Labrador will get the temporary construction jobs regardless of what the deal is - they need a longer term agenda. This is something they might get under the Liberals this time around.
The Tories cannot demonstrate the need for Muskrat - at least not for the need they suggest. The Tories are routinely telling people and groups to go away, stop getting on talk-show programs, stop protesting, do as we say, do not oppose, and if you want anything do not speak against us. The Tories are pointing accusatory fingers when the Liberals promise a needed increase for public service pensioners but do not at all question how they spend and on what. The Tories have abandoned the fishery, abandoned the paper towns, abandoned rural communities, abandoned ordinary Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, abandoned the Big Land, and increased cronyism and the public service by 20 per cent.
Yes the time for the overpass syndrome to be reversed is now - and I believe it may just happen. There's nothing better for arrogance than a swift kick by rural Newfoundland and the Big Land.
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