You really do have to wonder how anyone could be expected to keep things straight when the people they rely on to help them understand keep changing their statements. Take, for example, the fight between the provincial Conservative administration in Newfoundland and Labrador a decade ago over offshore oil royalties
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 2018-2019 Offshore Review #nlpoli
In 2003, the new Conservative administration set as its first task to renegotiate the Atlantic Accord. They hadn’t campaigned on that issue. The campaign election platform included a pledged to change the Equalization system in order to address the supposed claw-back of oil revenues. Still, they started out wanting to
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The cheque’s been cash. There’s no more cash flowing. But the deal is not quite done, yet. (Read more…)
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nothing was further from the truth #nlpoli
A decade ago, the offshore regulatory board reduced its estimate of the recoverable reserves in the Terra Nova field from 405 million barrels to 354 million barrels. Danny Williams was trying to squeeze additional transfer payments out of the federal government in the guise of getting provincial oil royalties that
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