Ed Martin in the hot seat over Muskrat disclosures, transparency | CBC News
“I’m putting to you that you did the wrong thing,” Learmonth stated.
Top bureaucrat ‘shocked and angered’ at evidence of Nalcor project team’s secrets | CBC News
Martin was the project “gatekeeper,” and largely
responsible for providing information to government, which is the 100
per cent shareholder of Crown corporation Nalcor Energy.
But
there’s growing evidence that Martin, likely based on the argument that
the information was commercially sensitive, was very selective in the
amount of information shared with government — especially in relation to
cost estimates.
PCs’ policy on fish processing cost the industry millions, says Gerry Byrne | CBC News
In 2013, negotiations between
Canada and the European Union over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement, or CETA, included talks on how Newfoundland and Labrador
might be compensated for losses once the deal was implemented. The
provincial PC government of the time insisted on a $400-million
compensation program, noted Byrne.
“I can certainly understand why they’d take that position,” Byrne said.
But
that fund never materialized, and Byrne today blames the loss of
millions in compensation on the province’s minimum processing
requirements — or MPRs — which were established in 2001 to prevent
processors from bypassing fish plants and sending whole fish directly to
market.
“They effectively torpedoed their own arguments,” he said.
Mercury rising: how the Muskrat Falls dam threatens Inuit way of life | The Narwhal
“Half the
people here can’t afford to buy from the stores,” Flowers told The
Narwhal. “We’ve depended on that food for decades and centuries as a way
of life.”
But this
spring will be the last that Flowers and her daughter, who is five
months pregnant, consume country food from the Lake Melville area
without fear of health impacts from methylmercury, a neurotoxin so dangerous the World Health Organization ranks it among the top ten chemicals of public health concern.
In the next year, when the Muskrat Falls
hydro dam on Labrador’s lower Churchill River floods an area twice the
size of the city of Victoria, methylmercury will immediately start to
contaminate the food chain as microbes feed on inorganic carbon stored
in flooded soils and vegetation, setting off a sequence of events.
N.L. voters re-elect Dwight Ball’s Liberals to form minority government
With most of the polls reporting, the Liberals were
elected or leading in 20 ridings, the Tories were elected or leading in
15, the New Democrats had three and there were two Independents. A total
of 21 seats is needed for a majority.