In early September, natural resources minister KathyDunderdale revealed that the provincial government tried unsuccessfully for five years to get Hydro-Quebec to take an ownership stake in the Lower Churchill project. A key component of the offers to HQ included the pledge to set aside any talk of redress for the 1969 Churchill Falls contract. The talks were never revealed publicly until...
Natural resources minister KathyDunderdale on the potential that more oil in White Rose would be a good thing for the province’s energy corporation, and demonstrating the whole “control ” philosophy: This is outstanding news for the people of this province and it certainly proves our critics wrong. Our decision to take equity in these resource projects is already paying...
In light of KathyDunderdale’s revelation of secret efforts to start talks on the Lower Churchill with Hydro Quebec as part owner, it’s interesting to go back and look at what Danny Williams used to say when other people tried the same thing. The year is 2002. In fact, the release came two days shy of one year before Williams won the 2003 general election as it turned out....
For the record – via labradore – with full audio of natural resources minister KathyDunderdale's September 4 comments to randy Simms of VOCM Open Line to follow: Y’know, the Premier has gone to Quebec, and gone to Premier Charest, and, y’know, we’ve had NALCO(R) visit y’know Hydro-Quebec, I’ve been meeting with Ministers and so on. And we say...
... Nope. Not the Premier. Jean Charest is a keynote speaker, though. Nope. Not Ed Martin. Not even KathyDunderdale. There’s only Wes Foote, an assistant deputy minister in the natural resources department. And he’s not even an electricity guy. Wes is the oil ADM. If you really want to develop the supposed energy hub of North America surely goodness you’d be out there...
... media outlet has bothered to follow up on the stunning revelations from natural resources minister KathyDunderdale about the secret pitches to Hydro Quebec. -srbp-
... criticises the Churchill Falls deal in the Graham letter but, according natural resources minister KathyDunderdale, Williams was willing to set the issue to one side in exchange for Hydro-Quebec buying a piece of the Lower Churchill. In 2006 , Williams rejected a proposal from Ontario Hydro and Hydro-Quebec to jointly develop the Lower Churchill. Williams said the province would...
... selling off its natural resources to Hydro-Quebec. In September natural resources minister KathyDunderdale revealed some details about Danny Williams’ previously secret offers to Hydro-Quebec to take an ownership stake in the Lower Churchill. labradore offers chunks of the transcript of Dunderdale’s interview. So much for “despicable.” Those Dunderdale...
For the benefit of those who keep using the Premier’s comments on the NB Power story, here is what is really going on, in the words of natural resources minister KathyDunderdale : We know that if you come in here as an equity player that you have to have a good return on your investment. And we want you to have a good return on your investment. But it also has to be a good deal...
... at all. And that’s after five years of desperately trying : [Natural resources minister Kathy] Dunderdale told VOCM Open Line show host Randy Simms on Friday morning that over the past five years, the Williams administration “got a path beaten to their [Hydro Quebec’s] door” in an attempt to have HQ become what Dunderdale described as an “equity...
