Still trying to gain some attention David Suzuki ................ Been trying to get some attention over here in Labrador ( the Muskrat Falls Disaster ) Please Mr David Suzuki i know not where to turn and i cannot afford anymore fines or jail time ........... could you all please like this post so i can make sure Mr David Suzuki see it .........PLEASE SIR ....... here is a little post i wrote on it awhile ago ......... Dennis Woodrow Burden Just going back over some stuff, most of it I picked up from others and could find links if you like ..... Well basically what happened was Danny Williams the “then” Premier decides to do this project and then turn over the reins to someone else and move on to bigger things - Tell us about the people involved? When Danny Williams announced damming Muskrat Falls in November 2010, there was no mention of power requirements in Labrador. Just months after resigning he resurfaced on the Board of Directors for Alderon, with an iron ore discovery in Labrador, and was talking about the need for Muskrat Falls’ hydropower to fuel mine development. Did correspondence with Alderon begin while Williams was Premier? Alderon should be asked to provide a copy of the letter in which this position was first offered to Williams. Matters of salary and other confidential issues can be redacted – we just need to see the date. And what about the party affiliations of key players? For example, consumer advocate Tom Johnson – who has endorsed Muskrat Falls – was appointed by the PCs and practices law with Tom Williams, Chief Fundraiser for the PC Party (and Danny’s brother). Gilbert Bennett of Nalcor worked with Danny Williams at his cable company and Brian Crawley – a VP with Nalcor who is now leading the Muskrat charge – is Williams’s former chief of staff. I’d like to see a diagram that shows ‘friend and party’ appointees, and their positions of influence within the Muskrat Falls schematic. And then the corrupt Nfld Government goes and create new laws to hide it all - Bill 29, 60, and 61..... New Muskrat Falls’ legislation ensures the project will generate the cash flow to cover all borrowing costs, removing PUB oversight of rates and enshrining Nalcor as a monopoly for wholesale power. The legislation forces the Public Utilities Board to accept all Muskrat Falls-related costs when setting final power rates. And the new laws also ensure that Nalcor will maintain its monopoly as the wholesale electricity generator on for both Newfoundland and Labrador. There will be no new entrants permitted. The Newfoundland and Labrador government has introduced new laws to push forward with development of a hydro-generating facility at Muskrat Falls (pictured) in Labrador. (Greg Locke/Reuters) Newfoundland Power has certain assets, and they will remain the same, Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy said. However, there will be no new generation allowed under the act. Restricting competition ensures a revenue stream to Nalcor at a rate required to cover Muskrat Falls-related financing costs. It will be necessary to show lenders — and it has been necessary to show lenders and rating agencies — that the rates charged to the ratepayers will be sufficient to cover the costs of the generation and the transmission of Muskrat Falls power, and that the revenue obtained from the rates will flow unfettered, Kennedy said. Kennedy acknowledged that ratepayers will bear the risk of cost overruns. The third and longest of the three Muskrat Falls transmission lines is the 1,100-kilometre Labrador-Island connection (a $2.6-billion extension cord between the Lower Churchill Project and Soldiers Pond, near St. John’s). In central and southeastern Labrador, the 400-km transmission line will cross 194 rivers and streams including the Kenamu River and St. Paul River. On the island, 700 km of transmission lines will span 392 rivers and streams before it reaches Soldiers Pond........ They will dump crushed rock on top of the transmission line across the straights of Belle Isle in hopes of protecting it from the Icebergs. There is a lot of Uranium in the rock in that area also as I receive a lot of confidential information about the Muskrat falls project; This major information will have serious impact on the cost of electricity and also a huge impact on the Strait of Belle Isle, the gulf and the St-Lawrence river. Facing that information there is also a need for a new environmental evaluation. (Chronicle Herald) A federal loan guarantee for the Maritime Link requires the province to promise it wont try to change the multibillion-dollar project after the regulator has approved it. Seems it changed... Thank you for your concern. Subject: Strait of Belle Isle (détroit entre Terre-Neuve et Bass-côte-Nord/Labrador) Nalcor Energy is in the process of developing the Lower Churchill River for hydro power. They plan to bring the power to Newfoundland by trenching the transmission lines across the Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland. For protection of the transmission lines from iceberg scour, they plan on building three massive berms to deflect the icebergs before reaching the position of the transmission lines. That is a huge problem and irresponsible because it will change the current flow in the Strait of Belle Isle and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The circulation in the Gulf is controlled by the inflow through the Strait of Belle Isle and by the flow from the St. Lawrence River. The majority of the Gulf water exits through Cabot Strait. Interference with the inflow of the Labrador Current water through the Strait of Belle Isle could affect the circulation in the whole Gulf of St. Lawrence. It will certainly disrupt the fishery in the Straits and on the Quebec Lower North Shore. It may also interfere with the salmon run to the Quebec rivers and those in the Atlantic provinces. I do not know the size of the 3 berms because it is a highly confidential project. The berms would have to be enormous to deflect an iceberg. The contract to partially fill in the Strait of Belle Isle has been awarded by Nalcor Energy to Tideway Offshore Contractors in The Netherlands. The project is presently in the engineering planning phase. The plan is to construct a large wharf in Forteau, Labrador where local rock is to be crushed and loaded on a large barge being brought over from The Netherlands. The local crushed rock is to be dumped into the Straits on the Labrador side. [redacted] company was contracted to measure the waves near the wharf construction site in Forteau for the engineering wharf design. The purpose of the wharf was discovered accidentally. The project must be stopped. Canada no longer has an Environmental Protection Agency and habitat management within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been disbanded. The environmental regulators are no longer in place. The Environmental Assessment for the Lower Churchill Project did not include this component of the project. And then they hit us with Bill 29...... David Cochrane asked the Centre for Law and Democracy to analyze the changes proposed in the bill, which is currently being filibustered by the opposition in the house of assembly. “The new cabinet exception is, well, breathtaking in its scope,” said Toby Mendel who runs the Centre. Mendels group says the changes in Bill 29, when implemented, would make the provinces open-records laws weaker than those in Mexico, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, Guatemala and Uganda. “I think it’s one of the widest exceptions of that sort I’ve seen anywhere.” An expert on international access-to-information laws calls key changes in Bill 29 “breathtaking,” and says Newfoundland and Labrador will rank lower than some Third World countries if the amendments pass.
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