More than six months after they shut it down, the company that owns the Come by Chance oil refinery wants to sell it. And they want provincial taxpayers to pay. According to Saltwire, “Glen Nolan, president of the United Steel Workers Local 9316 union, said that in recent conference calls
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Policy confusion does no one any good #nlpoli
Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be the day when governments buried announcements, they didn’t want anyone to notice. They’d take out the trash, as the day came to be known, by slipping out a
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: John Crosbie #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Left to Right: Bill Doody, Brian Peckford, John Crosbie, Jane Crosbie,and Beth Crosbie at the 1983 federal PC leadership convention The outpouring of praise in memory of John Crosbie, who died on Thursday, has been such a flood of cliché and, in some cases, fiction that it does a disservice
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Difference between Then and Now #nlpoli
A few months ago, SRBP wrote a two-part piece that described the change in the way politicians, bureaucrats, and the public looked at management and control of offshore oil and gas resources. It’s worth looking at this again in light of a couple of recent developments. In broadest terms, the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 2005 and 2019 Federal-Provincial Agreements #nlpoli
The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways. There is the agreement between the Government of Canada and the provincial government that established the joint management framework for the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore. At the same time, there is the political prop and the associated mythology that has,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Atlantic Accord: background to the 1985 agreement #nlpoli
The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways. There is the agreement between the Government of Canada and the provincial government that established the joint management framework for the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore. At the same time, there is the political prop and the associated mythology that
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Jim Thistle, 1954 – 2016 #nlpoli
Most of you have likely never heard of Jim Thistle.Jim passed away on Thursday after a brief illness. He was only 61 and until he was diagnosed with a very serious and ultimately fatal illness, Jim had more mental and physical energy than most of…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Offshore Ownership Fight Examined #nlpoli
Last year was the 30th anniversary of one of the most significant events not only in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador but of Canada as a whole. The agreement between the federal and provincial governments known as the Atlantic Accord resolved a dispute over the control of oil and
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Myths, then and now #nlpoli
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
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 2019 should be interesting #nlpoli
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: Why separate? #nlpoli
Last week, the federal Auditor General pointed out many serious problems with the state of offshore search and rescue. Last week, the usual gang grabbed any microphone they could find to call – yet again – for everything from a provincial public inquiry into the state of search and rescue
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