When you survey the present political scene, at least from my vantage point, disappointment awaits on all fronts. In my home province, a major inquiry report into the Muskrat Falls Hydro Project has just been released. This is the project that has seen its capital cost go from $6.2 Billion to $12.7 billion. A project, that in its failure, subjects the Province to near bankruptcy (saved because it is a province of Canada) for years to come. A project that sees the residents of the neighbouring province of Nova Scotia pay less for Muskrat Power than the residents of Newfoundland, and Labrador, the province in which the project resides and under whose authority it was commissioned and executed. The report is damning and demonstrates the incompetence and deception underlying the project’s execution. It actually says that Nalcor Energy, the Crown Corporation implementing the project, deliberately withheld information from the Government. It says the Cor...
A discussion on political, economic and social issues in British Columbia, and Canada