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: 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: 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: 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: 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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