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
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The future will be something #nlpoli
The association representing the province’s offshore supply and service businesses paid a consultant from London to look at the potential for development of the oil located in very deep water offshore Newfoundland. As CBC’s Terry Roberts tells us, the goal of the exercise was to help NOIA members get ready
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Somewhere in Newfoundland and Labrador, someone may not have heard the news.There is oil and natural gas in the ground under water off our coast.Never mind that this has been widely reported since the 1960s when someone first started exploring se…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Same circus #nlpoli
Somewhere in Newfoundland and Labrador, someone may not have heard the news.There is oil and natural gas in the ground under water off our coast.Never mind that this has been widely reported since the 1960s when someone first started exploring se…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A troublesome and costly pattern #nlpoli
There are so many problems raised by Premier Paul Davis’ zeal to sign an agreement with Statoil for the Bay du Nord that it is difficult to know where to begin. Perhaps the best place to start is with the deal announced the day before Davis’ oil news. The provincial
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: An Unwavering Commitment to Inaction, Indecision, and Extra Pork #nlpoli
In 2010, the provincial government appointed Captain Mark Turner to look at the “province’s offshore oil spill prevention and response capabilities.” He produced the 273 page report and the provincial government dutifully released it along with a lovely news release. Then-natural resources minister Shawn Skinner committed that the provincial government
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: CNLOPB announces 2012 call for bids on offshore parcels #nlpoli
From the offshore regulatory board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today the details of a Call for Bids in the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area. Call for Bids NL12-01 (Area "C" – Laurentian Sub-basin) will consist of six parcels, which comprise 1,589,738 hectares. Interested parties will
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