Fracking: Democracy or deadlock?
Last month, Hampton councillors voted against seismic testing within town boundaries. Hours before, more than 70 citizens had peacefully protested in front of the town hall, showing they were ready to stand their ground. The message wasn’t lost, not on councillors who passed the unanimous vote, nor on the two companies in question - Seismotion Inc. and Windsor Energy Inc. A lot of [...]
The sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec died suddenly this week, either Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Shawn Graham delivered its eulogy at about 10:30 Wednesday morning. For perhaps the first time since the deal’s creation, the premier looked tired, the bags under his eyes betraying, perhaps, how little sleep he had had Tuesday [...]
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Jamie Ross – The Aquinian – Just days after about 1, 000 people turned out to the provincial legislature to protest the sale of NB Power’s generating assets to Hydro-Quebec, Premier Shawn Graham said this morning the energy deal has been cancelled. Graham said in a press release that Hydro-Quebec “asked for changes to the agreement that [...]
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NOTE: Since writing the column over the weekend, the province and Hydro-Quebec cancelled the NB Power sale. That said, the basic point of this column is still relevent. Mike Krzyzewski, the legendary Duke University basketball coach, famously said “The only poll I trust is my mother.” While the pun loses some of its punch in [...]
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Around 1, 000 people turned out Saturday at the provincial legislature to protest the sale of NB Power assets to Hydro-Quebec. Some opposed to the deal argue the government does have a mandate to sell the public utility and are calling for a referendum. The proposed deal would see most of NB Power’s generating assets [...]
Continue reading …Jamie Ross – The Aquinian Issues of identity, land claims and the repatriation of ancestral remains will be at the heart of Native Awareness Days –a week-long event to be held at STU later this month. “We have to stand up and speak out, and native awareness days gives us that opportunity,” said Frank Jr. [...]
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Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian Deal violates UN declaration: First Nations Council The First Nations community in New Brunswick is voicing its opposition to the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro-Québec. The Wolastoqewiyik Traditional Council of Tobic states that the deal is “illegal” because it violates articles in the United Nations Declaration on the [...]
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Shawn Graham temporarily saved his political career on Wednesday with the new MOU. But will is it a better deal for New Brunswick? Will it save his government? Let’s look at the facts. Under MOU II, New Brunswick keeps the NB Power name, the transmission grid (NBSO), the distribution company (Disco), and the fossil-fuel plants. [...]
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Megan MacKay – The Aquinian Nearly 1,000 turn out to voice concern over possible sale of utility Upwards of a thousand demonstrators braved the cold to stand in front of the legislature and express their anger with the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec last week. The deafening cry of “It’s our power, keep [...]
Continue reading …Mitchell Messom & Greg Rodger - The Aquinian Unless your brain has been sealed in a vat for the last couple of weeks, you are now aware that the NB Liberal Government tends to sell of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec. Our intention is not to talk about the deal directly in its specifics, but rather how [...]
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Canadian Television star and vigilante The Littlest Hobo stopped by the legislature to lend a paw to the NB Power Protest. “He kinda just showed up here,” one man said “No one saw where he came from… or where he went too.” Organizers were baffled when the Shepherd approached them and asked to join in [...]
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It’s New Brunswick’s biggest political story in the last three years, and perhaps in my lifetime: the sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec. It’s not quite a done deal yet, but the final agreement is likely going to look very much like this memorandum of understanding (MOU; .pdf file). In case you didn’t read a [...]
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