Vive le Québec!

Que.adopts motion against Lower Churchill funding

Never thought i'd say "Long live Quebec" but there it is and here is why.

Labrador has a small population and a very low number of seats in government.(4 Prov and 1Federal) Not much clout! Plus we have a population of aprox 28,000 people which is being held against us by Newfoundland Governments, in the past and now.

Because of our situation and based on past treatment by governments we have no choice but to take our support where we can get it, so we thank Quebec for this and we trust that their present actions will help, not only Labrador, but Newfoundland as will. Newfoundland because of the high Hydro rates they will face if this project goes ahead.

We are held back from development, from proper highway construction, Water & Sewer in small communities & most recently potential clean energy (Lower Churchill Hydro Power). Hydro power that could be used in Labrador coastal communities to replace dirty fossil fuel power.

NL Government now claim they have hydro power for us to drive industries in Labrador but where is the proof of this? We see it as just hollow words. We don't see any industries that they could have enticed here to begin operation when this 1st power comes on stream.

What they are not telling us is that we will block the use of any power we may have reserved for you. We will put so many road blocks in place for industry that companies will just walk away. They will walk away rather then screwing around with this. They will walk away because it will not be feasible(cost effective) for them to operate an industry in Labrador. Sure they say, Vale Inco will need power when they go underground but they will try to force Inco to pay for a power line to their operations. A power line that should be paid for by Gov from the Revenue they have received for the past 40 years from 'OUR 300mw of Upper Churchill Power'. A line that should have already been in place to the North and South Coast of Labrador years ago, a sufficient line for industry down there.

If a Hydro line was already on the coast from Upper Churchill Hydro Power, like it should be, Nalcor & Government could just sell power to Vale Inco or Aurora Energy or any other need on the Labrador Coast at good rates. Think about the potential jobs a livehoods taken care of far into the future.

Dunderdale is now saying they will have available 500mw for Labrador. Sounds familiar? Will 500mw is what we supposed to get from Muskrat Falls & Gull Island if developed. Wait a minute, this isn't the 500mw she is alluding to now. No! She is actually offering us 300mw, that already there from Upper Churchill + 200mw from Lower Churchill=500mw. Hold your horses again: According to Nalcor Energy's Vice President, Gilbert Bennett, there is only 100mw of that reserved Upper Churchill power left. So now what do u have? 300-200+200=300mw total. Now we are back where we started in the 60's with 300mw. Some deal hey? Try to get you hands on it though. Looks like more Revenue for Provincial Government Coffers.

Don't know why i'm doing this. It's just helping NL Gov use our words and our Hydro Power against us. They do this by telling us what we want to hear, like Kathy Dunderdale did yesterday and today. The big, big problem with this is that thousands of Labrador people believe her and Nalcor Energy.

Desperate Need Found

Nfld's desperate need for Lower Churchill Power found.

1. Use the revenue from Oil to develop & distribute 'clean electricity' to the island of Newfoundland.

2. Manufacturing Jobs on the island of Newfoundland for when their Oil is all gone.

3. Why the island of Newfoundland Manufacturing first, using Labrador Hydro Electricity?

4. Why not Manufacturing in Labrador first since we are the risk takers (Happy Valley Goose Bay/Mud Lake)and the adjacent ones on this Mighty Grand River?

I'll answer the questions with another question; What else could save the Rock & least keep the mother's sons that are already there & not yet born on the island?

Note: The most respectable thing they could have done would be to set up some manufacturing in Labrador 'first' before taking Labrador's future away. Newfoundland Government could have started with: (a)enticing industries to come here & use the 300mw already reserved for us from the Upper Churchill. (b)They could have had manufacturing ready to run, with their operations ready for when Lower Churchill power came on stream in 2016.

Save the Rock expand your Warehouse.

The time is long overdue to STOP THE GIVE AWAYS in this province, guess Labrador is gonna have to help NL, the Rock can't seem to help themselves. Not enough Electricity, Fish gone, Minerals gone, Forestry gone, turned into finished products using Nuclear Power somewhere else and sold back to us.

Stun as me Arse!
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Sure! U don't even have to construct a billion dollar Hydro Power line to, God knows where, just build the plant here, create industries here, ship finished products anywhere from here via train or ship. Bring home every mother's son, have them work here, collect their taxes, save the rock.. SO LOGICAL BUT TO SIMPLE, RIGHT?

Made right here, IN YOUR OWN WAREHOUSE AND IT'S A BIG ONE, SPACE GALORE IN LABRADOR.

SO LOGICAL, SO SIMPLE?

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Smarten up! No more stupid Newfie remarks boy. Where beast de go now, beast de go down hrbour in Tom Baths Skeef? Beast gonna land ye on the green.

Labrador's Monumental Lost

Any development of the Lower Churchill Falls under a NL Government scheme would be a monumental lost to Labrador.

Construction jobs would have to be filled by people outside of the BigLand because we do not have the population to draw from, or do we? Those jobs would be only temporary anyway. Long term jobs would amount to peanuts.

The Hydro Power would pass by Labrador residents door step on the way to Newfoundland over the 900mw powerline. How would they get the 5000mw Upper Churchill Power over that line in 20141?

The fish in our river would be poisoned again by mercury and Labrador would become a larger target for any terroist that wanted to hit the United States indirectly.

Then there is the potential flooding danger to the communities of Happy Valley Goose Bay and Mudlake if Churchull Falls Dams ever ruptured.

Newfoundland would have industries coming out of their ears using Labrador Power. Maybe Labrador Power would even save the rock and bring home every mother’s son from Alberta, after the oil is gone.

The bottom line is: there would not be enough positive benefits for Labrador in the long haul to justify such a project with such huge risk, except for a few bucks that the Innu Leaders would receive? What about the other 25,000 or so peoples of Labrador? Shouldn’t adjacency matter? I think adjacency should matter wherever a resource is in this province.

Anyone who is looking for money could just buy shares in Emera and sell them again after the next big announcement concerning Muskrat Falls, Lower Churchill is made.

Destroy a 2nd,3rd,4th Labrador River?

Don't all Labrador residents think by now that one Labrador River's destruction is one to many? Destroying other rivers isn't necessary for Labrador's present or future needs, especially considering all the Hydro Power coming from Upper Churchill Falls. Sure, in 2041 we will have Hydro Power coming out of our ears. I suppose the argument is, we (Nfld) want all the Churchill Falls Power for ourselves(the Rock), Labrador can't have any of that, no,no; God forbid.

In my humble opinion, it would be absolutely insane to destroy even one more ego system, one more river in this BigLand for the sake of money. After all, it wouldn't be done to sustain life in any way for Labrador Residents.

There was 300mw of recallable Upper Churchill power that could have been used in Labrador but our governments saw fit to keep that away from us and use it's revenuse elsewhere. There was a time when Central Labrador needed extra hydro power for the military base in Goose Bay but our provincial government told local residents that they could not afford to upgrade the powerline to Churchill Falls. Upgrading this line would have taken less then one years revenue from the recallable power. There attitude must have been at the time; it's your power (in your backyard) but you can't have it, sorry.

Imagine all the industries that can be built in Newfoundland between 2016 and 2041 using cheep clean power from Labrador. Newfoundland would definitely be ready for the time when Oil Revenues disappear.

There was a $500,000 study done in 2008 for alternative energy for Labrador's South Coast and now government is gonna give Nalcor Energy more money ($2.5million) to do another study of South Coast Rivers. Why don't they just give that $2.5 million to the doctors so that they won't quit on us, would be money better spent, don't you think so? Maybe this is just a way of feeding Nalcor Energy and the $2.5 won't really be spent for the reason listed. Maybe Nelcor got other plans for that money.