We all have vested interests. I am a very large residential customer for NB Power. My bill each year is a little over $4,000 – the cost of owning a 100 year old home originally built by a guy named…
Continue ReadingFear and self-loathing in N.B.
A couple of points tonight just to keep the ball rolling. First, I’d like to tackle this issue of benefit to residential customers. It remains a curiosity how opponents of the HQ purchase of NSP can just dismiss this with…
Continue ReadingConscientious objector
I got an email last night from an old colleague I have worked with for almost 20 years. He calls himself a conscientious objector to the NB Power sale. After some thought, I think this is a good term to…
Continue ReadingThe only other option for NB Power
When I asked last week for people to put forward serious alternatives for NB Power that would keep rates competitive, orderly pay down debt and allow for the phasing out of oil/coal electricity generation, there were no takers. In fact,…
Continue ReadingMore than a location…..
Here is that document (its 7 megs – I couldn’t condense it more) I referenced from 1996 that I wrote for the then Department of Economic Development and Tourism. Back in the early to mid 1990s I worked for EDT…
Continue ReadingWalk down – NB Power’s memory lane
My wife was helping me purge some old boxes just this week and we came across a document I wrote in 1996 just before I left the Department of Economic Development and Tourism called “New Brunswick, Canada: More than a Location… …
Continue ReadingExports in perspective
I have thought for a long time that New Brunswick should publish its exports formally – with and without energy. Every other year we get a forecast about booming exports and politicians are quick to take credit for this as…
Continue ReadingElectricity outside the Heritage Pool
I think this is an issue for discussion. It’s not a deal breaker, in my opinion, but clarification would be helpful. If New Brunswick’s need for additional electricity goes outside the heritage pool (basically the current demand), additional power will…
Continue ReadingWhere’s the political bread buttered?
When the Tories and the NDP in New Brunswick rant against ‘big business’ I wonder if they understand who drives employment in this province? I revisited the numbers today just for fun. Organizations with over 100 employees have 61% of…
Continue ReadingDeja vu all over again
I am enjoying most of the discussion on the NB Power issue (with the exception of some of the funky stuff that I have had to block). I am surprised at the visceral reaction to this – people talking about…
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