Nearly a year after the Liberal government announced it would
carve out Nalcor Energy’s oil and gas division, the House of Assembly
began debating legislation Monday to establish a separate Crown
corporation.

The corporation will report directly to the
Department of Natural Resources, and will be charged with maximizing the
province’s offshore resources as part of government’s Advance 2030
plan.

“[That] is not an adequate public release of vital information,” he said, noting that the map isn’t anywhere online in the company’s incident reports.

“The takeaway from this is that the responsible party for an oil spill seems to be in charge of releasing information about their own pollution event which, if you think about it, is totally absurd.” #nlpoli

Words of caution about a global slowdown in labour productivity were essentially ignored by Nalcor Energy, says a risk consultant who repeatedly assessed the project over the years.

That was one of the highlights Monday of testimony by Keith Dodson, co-owner of Texas-based Westney Consulting Group, at the Muskrat Falls inquiry as hearings began for a second week in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. #nlpoli

Ecojustice, acting on behalf of clients including the Suzuki Foundation, Nature Québec and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit in 2017 alleging that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board illegally granted Corridor Resources another offshore drilling licence after time ran ran out on its first one in January 2017.

Lawyers for Ecojustice, the petroleum board and the company appeared in the provincial Supreme Court on Monday. #nlpoli