It’s called schadenfreude, the satisfaction you get from someone else’s misfortune. Some Albertans may be feeling it this week after the referendum in Maine that rejected a Hydro-Québec transmission line through their state. Projected to generate $10 billion US for Hydro-Québec over 20 years, the project, known as the New
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Quebec appeals court decision on Churchill Falls contract no win for Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Media reports, political comments, and pundit opinions are wrong about the decision last week by the Quebec Court of Appeal in a case about the renewal clause of the 1969 Power Contract between Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation and Hydro-Quebec. The Court decision leaves Hydro-Quebec with virtually all of the electricity
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Ball, Coady confirm secret talks with Quebec on Labrador hydro #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Premier Dwight Ball confirmed in the House of Assembly on Wednesday that officials from this province are talking to officials in Quebec about significant development of hydro-electric assets on the Churchill River. We know that something very serious is going on – in secret – because of the way that
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: CF(L)Co v. Hydro-Quebec (Court of Appeal) #nlpoli
The full text of the Quebec Court of Appeal decision in Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation v. Hydro-Quebec: pdf-srbp-
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: La Romaine: on or off? #nlpoli
On Monday, Quebec premier Philippe Couillard left the impression that the third and fourth dams on the La Romaine river were in doubt. Couillard told reporters as he headed to the meeting of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers that Hydro-Quebec would finish the first two dams, currently under
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor following wrong energy path #nlpoli
Think back to last December. A couple of Nalcor guys bragged about the company’s strategy of importing electricity when they needed during the months when prices were low and then exporting our own electricity when electricity prices were high. Brilliant idea. It worked for Hydro-Quebec for most of the past
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Negotiating from Weakness #nlpoli
Markets in northeastern North America are already awash in cheap electricity, thanks in large part of the discovery of massive amounts of natural gas in the United States. They’ll be that way for decades to come. Current forecasts New England’s regional electricity transmission organization hold that improvements in energy efficiency
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor’s Complaints to the Regie #nlpoli
Last week, the Quebec Superior Court dismissed a motion to hear an appeal from Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro over decisions taken by the Quebec’s energy regulator in 2010. As NTV reported on Friday, “Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro asked for transmission access from Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie in January 2006. But Nalcor says
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Access denied: CFLCo and Hydro-Quebec version #nlpoli
Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation tried but failed in 2012 in an effort to see hundreds of thousands of pages of confidential Hydro-Quebec documents on the 1969 Power Contract between CFLCo and Hydro-Quebec. A decision by the Quebec access to information commissioner in November 2012 denied CF(L)Co access to the documents
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Hydro-Quebec Statement of Claim #nlpoli
Via labradore, the statement of claim filed on behalf of Hydro-Quebec earlier this week. You can search it and read it in English. Those of you using Chrome will find the translation very simple. If the text here is too small, then click on the title – Hydro-Quebec Statement of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Hydro-Quebec to seek clarity on contract rights #nlpoli
From Hydro-Quebec: MONTREAL, July 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ – Hydro-Québec is filing a motion today with the Québec Superior Court to obtain a declaratory judgment. The company is asking the Court to confirm that two recent positions taken by CF(L)Co with respect to the Churchill Falls Contract (the Contract) are
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: History’s Bitch #nlpoli
A half century ago, a bunch of very smart fellows – some of the smartest fellows of any generation ever – wanted to build a massive plant in the middle of Labrador to make electricity. One of the problems the project faced was a combination of costs and markets. As
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, January 2013 (via GreenCarReports)
My column on plug-in car sales in Canada for January 2013, is now up at GreenCarReports. Since it’s hard to write ~600 words about sales statistics in the very small Canadian market, I discuss how Quebec — not B.C.! — is the leading province for plug-in vehicle adoption, and reasons
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Gil Bennett won’t re-tweet this post #nlpoli
After a few weeks’ break, Telegram editor Peter Jackson had another go Thursday at the water management controversy involving Nalcor and the 2041 Group.Jackson wrote about it in his Hallowe’en column. After digging up some additional information, h…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Williams prepared to wrap arms around Quebec #nlpoli
There’s something just too funny for words about former Premier Danny Williams sometimes. It’s the kind of “too funny” where you don’t know whether he gets the joke and is just having a laugh at his own expense or is so completely blind to how asinine his own words make
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dunderdale: Hydro-Quebec equity in Lower Churchill and no ‘69 redress part of ‘win-win’ for HQ #nlpoli
For five years, the provincial Conservatives secretly tried to interest Quebec in part ownership of the Lower Churchill, according to Premier Kathy Dunderdale. Dunderdale: September 2009 In September 2009, she told Open Line host Randy Simms (audio at right) about the secret efforts made by then-Premier Danny Williams, Dunderdale and
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Williams sides with Quebec on energy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Danny Williams always likes someone who stands up for his or her province. Well, likes them as long as the someone doing the standing up standing in the way of something Danny wants. . Anyone who wondered why Williams turned up in the Globe praising British Columbia Premier Christy Clark
Continue readingCo2 Art: Quebec Total Ban on Fracking as USGS Links it to Earthquakes
Last Tuesday the Quebec environment minister announced an absolute ban on fracking while the process is studied. That move is looking like a stroke of genius today, as the U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a report showing an unprecedented increase in earthquakes occurring in the U.S. heartland. The study identifies
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