The Telegram - Opinion - Letters to the editor. Nalcor not telling the truth Published on July 25, 2011

FINTIP

- July 25, 2011 at 12:32:37

Clouter is correct of course in asserting that wind, like any other source of power, can be stored. Methods include thermal (heat sink), compressed air, hydrogen, salt, and hydro-electric (including new stand-alone facilities using pumped storage and upgrading of existing plants through resevoir expansion). Efficencies of up to 99% are claimed for some of these technologies. Beyond wind there is solar, geo-thermal, wave, and waste (e.g. garbage and wood fibre). Retrofitting Holyrood to run on natural gas is a major opportunity, not only to lower production costs but to drastically reduce greenhouse gases. In addition to more efficient load levelling on the production side, there is demand side load levelling - the latter involves incentives for off peak consumption of power. Many homeowners and even some commercial operations can easily be persuaded to shift some of their energy intensive uses to non peak hours. There is also, as exists in other jurisdictions, the mandate obligating electrical utilities to compensate private producers of electricity for excess power fed into the grid. There is as yet a largely ignored opportunity to promote conservation at the home and consumer level using an almost insignifcant part of the investment required for Muskrat. Suffice it to say that we have a very staid, fixated, unimaginative, technologically challenged group of people leading our utilities and governments in this country and this province in particular. By bulldozing ahead with Muskrat and the Anglo-Saxon project, Newfoundland and Labrador is undermining its remaining legal challenge to the Upper Churchill contract. It is also destroying much of its leverage in dealing with Quebec and/or extracting maximum value from new markets once the Upper Churchill contract expires. And finally it is ignoring an opportunity to take advantage of new energy technologies and to establish this province as a leader in innovative power generation. A large part of the problem is that NALCOR operates as a closed shop. The process of evaluating and finding solutions to energy problems in this province needs to be opened to a much wider discussion and input from professionals and energy groups of all kinds. Only then can the consumer be assured that we are not assuming an enormous debt for a mega project that was unnecessary or unwise in the first place.

HE IS VERY CORRECT. SO CORRECT I'D VOTE HIM TO BE CHIEF OF nalcor RATHER THAN THE BLUNDERING SUITS RUNNING 'OUR COMPANY' NOW.

Fisheries Claim of Right: Community Linkages

From Ray Johnson and da byes over at Community Linkages...

Notice of Intent and Statement of Claim

TO: Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

I, ____________________ a Newfoundlander and Labradorian, do hereby state the
following:
WHEREAS, Canada has failed and abandoned their obligations under the Terms of
Union to effectively and responsibly manage and sustain our fisheries;
WHEREAS, the recreational fishery and the restrictions on my right to fish, is a
violation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act because it does not uphold the rights of
citizens in Newfoundland and Labrador to participate in their culture and heritage;
WHEREAS, families and individuals have relied on the fishery for generations as a food
supply and major source of employment in Newfoundland and Labrador;
WHEREAS, fishing is a basic established right, a fundamental element to our society
and the well-being of our province, our rural communities and the future of our children;
WHEREAS, my culture and heritage depends on the fishery;
THEREFORE, let it be known that I have the right to be a steward of the fishery, and to
be included in any discussions around restructuring of the fishing industry, quotas, and
interests off Newfoundland and Labrador’s shores;
THEREFORE, I declare that under the principles of Magna Carta, I am entitled from my
descendants, a community of settlers, to declare fishing rights up to the 12-mile limit and
the first three miles from the high water mark be reserved for local use and the purposes
of our heritage, culture and the well being of our economy;
THEREFORE, let it be known that I have a public right to fish from the first three miles of
water for my personal consumption and the consumption of my family;
THEREFORE, let it be known that I claim hook and line as a sustainable fishing method;
THEREFORE, let it be known that no decisions, changes, or influences should be
carried out on the fish resources or the fishing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador,
without my consent or the consent of all Citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador;
THEREFORE, I request the Government of Canada, its Parliament and the Province of
Newfoundland and Labrador recognize my claim and the importance the fishery has on
the historic, cultural, and socioeconomic significance to Newfoundland and Labrador.

I have mine ready sent already.

An interactive map of festivals from coast to coast this Summer. From The Independent.

This is a great resource for travelers and vendors this summer..

MAP: Summer Festivals 2011

Cod: Renewing a Bountiful Catch

Watch this and learn

http://www.curra.ca/features_cod_dvd.htm

Community Linkages Report Needs More Attention

This report written by the group Community Linkages certainly needs more airing out. It is well written, concise and could provide a good portion of the solution to the issues in our inshore fishery. It's a starting point that no politician or industry leader would take up simply because of the sheer size of the task. That is not good enough. More needs to done to stabilize the economies of our rural communities and ensure many more generations of Newfoundlanders can fully enjoy the true quality of life many outport people have come to appreciate and love.

Here's the interview with the gov't and industry dudes. Which side has rural Newfoundland in its heart?

Long awaited NL Fisheries Management MOU

Now's the time to stand up and make yourself heard Rural NL. This MOU is the nail in the coffin for a 500 year old way of living with the land & sea we all so dearly cherish.

Here's Jackman getting pulled apart by David Cochrane of the CBC

 http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/NL/Web_Exclusive/1303113032/ID=1818322846

Newfoundland National Anthem

Kruger's new enterprise on the west coast

When Kruger shuts its doors in Corner Brook they have a few other plans up their sleeves. I wonder how this project fits into EMERA's transmission link?

Harry Manx - Take this Hammer

Canada dead last in freedom of information requests study

Democracy is almost dead in Canada apparently. Is this what we want our children to inherit? Time to wake up people, the suits are gettin' a bit too comfortable in their ivory towers.

Global warming is coming faster than we've been led to believe.

wow. that's scary. from this artical in USA today comes some not so good news. history in the making here folks, they don't release this kind of information everyday.

The first twitter revolution?

Tech savvy youth in Tunisia have carried out the first revolution using social media.

Spooks beware out there....you're not the only ones who get to say Boo! now.

This ain't the Niger Delta.

Someone needs to tell Danny Williams that.

He seems to be trying to put himself in league with the likes of Shell Oil and their ilk. Well, he should take another look around and perhaps consider who he's dealing with. We're the same ones the Americans hired to go over to Afghanistan and try and talk some sense into the most hardened fighters in the world. That's not an easy job, and I certainly don't see any Nigerian battle groups there (if you get my point).

Trying to run our province like a third-world country has gotten him in over his head. The media cannot be controlled (completely), you cannot go into peoples houses and threaten them (without it coming out in the media), there's no militia to kick down doors and carry out extra-judicial killings (yet), no mob for hire to do false flag riots so martial law can be induced (unless Danny and his hockey buddies wanna start some shit on George with da fishin' and farmin' boys).

Our province is no longer for sale to the highest bidder (from Quebec or anywhere else). It's time the suits in St. John's get that point, and start looking out for the interests of our people like we elected them to do. They can learn that the easy way or the hard way. It is still their decision.

The Chinese buy in, the Americans buy them out, we lose. End of story.

Here is what happens to ex-politicians once they leave our most trusted office of premier.

From the Montreal Gazette this morning.

Cliffs pays $4.9B for iron ore miner

Tobin heads the company that's dealing with the Chinese on our resources and then turns around and sells out to the Americans.

He couldn't sell our water, so he went elsewhere and is now selling our metal resources. Makes sense, I guess.

Seriously, that's messed up.

Brad Cabana has got a pair

Well.

At least we know someone has a pair.

Might be THE game-changer we need around here. Hope so.

No local political ties, from out west with NL roots.

What will come from this? Stay tuned.