tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post7699254655690038322..comments2023-10-25T07:29:40.789-02:30Comments on UNCLE GNARLEY: TODD STANLEY TELLS MF INQUIRY MORE THAN HE INTENDED?Des Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566013585647491614noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-27074792415402471932018-11-01T10:57:49.394-02:302018-11-01T10:57:49.394-02:30FLW...perhaps you might want to put your name forw...FLW...perhaps you might want to put your name forward. KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-75265848681145610582018-11-01T08:38:52.154-02:302018-11-01T08:38:52.154-02:30Sturge says he was out of the loop, left out from ...Sturge says he was out of the loop, left out from Ed's tight little group, yes tight alright, his oil buds, thick I would say, perhaps even thick as thieves ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-426568830956337822018-11-01T08:31:36.983-02:302018-11-01T08:31:36.983-02:30Likely Capt Kean who is on the stand next week.Likely Capt Kean who is on the stand next week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-2140427945209880392018-11-01T01:00:08.431-02:302018-11-01T01:00:08.431-02:30Heracles; Just hire a few of the world class brigh...Heracles; Just hire a few of the world class bright lites at Nalcor and "Bob's your uncle" AC/DC/AC:-)Robert G Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356463540446993862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-62777605418665648922018-10-31T23:32:52.776-02:302018-10-31T23:32:52.776-02:30At this point, I believe the Commission will lay b...At this point, I believe the Commission will lay blame, not on one entity, but, for a start, three successive provincial governments aka 2003-2007 (Williams);2007-2011(Williams, Dunderdale); 2011-15 (Dunderdale, Davis); and 2015-2019 (Ball). Ball conveniently delayed any Inquiry results until after 2019 election (in about a year from now). Take your pick, people. Fault will be found; NL will have spent millions on this Inquiry; and who will be happy. Ball and his ilk will likely be re-elected. There is too much armchair commentary re MF, etc. Blogging is fine but who’s going to get out on his/her armchair and change this tired, old political process in NL . It requires millenials and younger, smart, patriotic natives to lead a charge into better governance instead of old farts league and money. I would die most surprised if it were to happen in my lifetime. FLW <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-65705697619649637242018-10-31T23:09:46.545-02:302018-10-31T23:09:46.545-02:30Hi Robert,
Sorry but here, you missed something.....Hi Robert,<br /><br />Sorry but here, you missed something... To flip Ottawa from Ontario's grid to HQ's grid would not be easy at all.<br /><br />The reason is that HQ's grid is isolated from all others and not synced with any other grid. Only the UC power plant is synced with HQ's network. That was a requirement from the Power Contract : HQ wanted the plant fully integrated in its fleet.<br /><br />All connections between HQ and any other grid must be DC. So for one to take a load from one grid and move it ot another one, you must basically power down that load, disconnect all its existing feeds, build and connect new feeds from the second grid, build a DC interface with the previous grid if you don't want to loose everything from that one and then you can power back on the load.<br /><br />So Yes HQ does have the power for a city like Ottawa, but to transfer the load from ON to HQ and have HQ responsible of distribution would be a nightmare.Heracles31https://www.blogger.com/profile/04598467925778515764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-30512738544292818002018-10-31T22:48:15.147-02:302018-10-31T22:48:15.147-02:30The Feds went easy on Gallant, in permitting Belle...The Feds went easy on Gallant, in permitting Belledune to continue to pollute. A simple fix would be to draw hydro from HQ, and shut the coal fired generator down. Now Dougie is shutting wind farms and renewables down in ON. Demand is increasing beyond generation capacity. Easy fix to take Ottawa off the OH grid, and put it on HQ. Oh sure the politicos won't be happy:-)Robert G Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356463540446993862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-10025294124894483342018-10-31T22:14:52.865-02:302018-10-31T22:14:52.865-02:30Indeed, Kate allows Sturge and others a easy pass....Indeed, Kate allows Sturge and others a easy pass.<br />Also yesterday when Budden had Paul Wilson ready to name names as to who he was angry with at Nalcor, Judge Leblanc cut him off. Was he about to name Gil Bennett or Martin or whoever? If he did he would have to give details of why. Does the Commissioner not want to know? The truth, the whole truth......who at Nalcor wilson was angry with ...., was that too much truth for Leblanc?<br />PFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-79474052509774759752018-10-31T20:21:07.065-02:302018-10-31T20:21:07.065-02:30Just read your last comment; it could indeed be th...Just read your last comment; it could indeed be the foundation of national grid.<br /><br />It says in the article that before getting any Fed $ backing, each involved provinces must have reached a prior agreement. Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-9735168490984563332018-10-31T19:17:53.492-02:302018-10-31T19:17:53.492-02:30Didn't this man sign the agreements and perhap...Didn't this man sign the agreements and perhaps even sign or authorize the cheques Ed Martin received on the way out the door that day. Give us a break and now he's a bright light. You have got to be kidding me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-82082496594473837962018-10-31T18:57:18.141-02:302018-10-31T18:57:18.141-02:30Indeed Robert!
What a tremendous wasted opportunit...Indeed Robert!<br />What a tremendous wasted opportunity. We just needed to bridge that gap until 2041, nothing more.<br /><br />Anyways, above inter-provincial power connections fed backing is also (mostly?) intended to reduce our CO2 emissions nation wide.<br /><br />However above fed financial backing must not have an impact (even indirectly) on any future US power exports thought, otherwise we might be slammed with anti-dumping duties... <br />Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-11229131498365683462018-10-31T18:55:35.715-02:302018-10-31T18:55:35.715-02:30Ex- The Lapresse article suggests that at long las...Ex- The Lapresse article suggests that at long last, the Feds recognize the benefits of development of a National power grid. Foolishness and waste being practiced by the provincial power companies can no longer be tolerated. A load centred distribution system from QC to ON and the Atlantic may become a reality. Personally, I have dreamed this would become the best resolution to the NL/QC acrimony over the Brinco affair.Robert G Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356463540446993862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-21560604840945578072018-10-31T18:07:09.802-02:302018-10-31T18:07:09.802-02:30Is this the same guy who looked for dirt on the th...Is this the same guy who looked for dirt on the then finance minister on behalf of the then board of directors before they gave fast eddy the unearned gifts and bolted for the door? And he is still there!!! Come on Stan, do your job buddy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-65186122085333337052018-10-31T17:53:55.424-02:302018-10-31T17:53:55.424-02:30Sturge should go back to the helicopter business f...Sturge should go back to the helicopter business from whence he came. Little to no hydro experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-31107144691641516492018-10-31T17:29:27.656-02:302018-10-31T17:29:27.656-02:30And how bright is Sturge?
O'brien put the pro...And how bright is Sturge?<br /><br />O'brien put the proposition to him that unlike a cost of service method (where costs are mostly paid in the early years when the 'unknown' can be more accurately forecast), using the escalating supply price method for the generation component shifts a lot more costs to the much later years of the PPA period (the time when it is much more difficult to forecast what the situation will be). That is a much riskier than using a COS approach.<br /><br />Sturge disagreed (even though MHI has clearly stated that risk is "further magnified" due to the long "2010-2067" CPW option analysis.<br /><br />In spite of Sturge's reply, O'Brien made no attempt to point out that fact. She just moved on.<br /><br />It is hard to have confidence in where this inquiry is going (or is intended to go for that matter).Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-779584416096166902018-10-31T15:45:56.068-02:302018-10-31T15:45:56.068-02:30Had this type of forward thinking taken place, inv...Had this type of forward thinking taken place, involving the bright lites such as CFO Sturge, now on the stand, The Muskrat could have been deferred until 2041. Substantial savings one might say!Robert G Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356463540446993862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-57114836847058560332018-10-31T15:40:04.378-02:302018-10-31T15:40:04.378-02:30Looks like Kate has some good questions ready for ...Looks like Kate has some good questions ready for Capt Kean next week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-15345221234343490102018-10-31T12:04:14.740-02:302018-10-31T12:04:14.740-02:30FWIW, just a few days before the SCC decision (on ...FWIW, just a few days before the SCC decision (on UC "good faith"), the feds seem now willing to finance inter-provincial power connections - namely here between On, Qc and the Atlantic. Interesting; it's been a while since that Anglo-Saxon routing's FLG. Why did it take so long to offer HQ financial goodies?<br /><br />That seems to support Heracles idea of face-saving negotiations that would get HQ to provide power to NS and NL... <br /><br /> https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/politique-canadienne/201810/30/01-5202355-ottawa-pret-a-financer-des-interconnexions-entre-le-quebec-et-dautres-provinces.php<br /> Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-72854460737834887042018-10-31T09:16:33.141-02:302018-10-31T09:16:33.141-02:30So here we sit today says Joe blow, and oil hovers...So here we sit today says Joe blow, and oil hovers around a low to moderate price, but not high enough to pay for bread and butter, and health care. And ball et al tells us he will shut down holyrood as soon as muskrat comes on stream..still dreaming. So the 62 per cent of the CPU was not needed for the island option and the cost of muskrat inter grated has doubled. What tangled webs we weave when we weave to deceive ...ourselves. We have been told that, with a little EE and DSM, a couple of gas turbines, and maybe a little wind, we didn't need muskrat in the first place. Now go figure that one. Our demand shrinks as well as our population and our ability to pay. Now in the next few weeks they will begin appearing on the stand, defiant, belligerent and conceited cronies shooting their praises for the boondoggle, and we will have to put up with that despicable display of self righteousness. OMG!!! They should all be defrocked bare on the stand and publicly flogged. Is the commission and our tiny band of that side of the lawyers capeable of performing that task. I rather doubt it, but they can only try. Yes it was supposed to be the lagecy of one man, and all the others could have been like ANDY and the PUB and said NO. They put their jobs and interest of the people first, why not the others??? And our silly band of elected members towed the line and cow towed with their heads down and their traps shut. What a bunch of silly sheep and turkeys off to the slaughter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-85761997952079411402018-10-31T07:15:40.338-02:302018-10-31T07:15:40.338-02:30A Strategist's presentation (on the web) state...A Strategist's presentation (on the web) states (under Risk Analysis, Approaches to Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, the following:<br />•<br />Select one of your uncertainty variables (i.e. – fuel prices) <br />•<br />Vary that variable across it’s probability distribution <br />•<br />At p50 (mean or expected value) <br />•<br />And each of the two tails (i.e. – p10 & p90 or p5 & p95) <br />•<br />Also vary any correlated uncertainty variables (i.e. – market energy prices) <br />•<br />If the decision does not change across that range, then the decision is not sensitive to this uncertainty variable <br />•<br />If it does change, may need to test other distribution points (p20, p30, etc.) to determine inflection points <br /><br />Did Nalcor do this? I doubt it. More detailed/expert review of the Strategist model and how it was applied is essential to any prospect of finding out what went wrong.Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-5520454247681589452018-10-31T00:49:21.835-02:302018-10-31T00:49:21.835-02:30At this point, I can only say NL needs to get out ...At this point, I can only say NL needs to get out of its funk into supporting mainline political parties. You all know who they are. This system is not working for us. But, let us realize there is absolutely no populist movement out there like SK and others have done in recent years to break out of this. I would readily support an alternative by a well financed and energetic leader. Just dreaming. Don’t think NL is ready for it yet or soon. FLWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-38541497327160468102018-10-31T00:31:49.668-02:302018-10-31T00:31:49.668-02:30Maurice: Agree. There can only be one answer going...Maurice: Agree. There can only be one answer going back to the ill advised 2011-2067 period of comparison in CPW. The assumptions go wild after 20+ years. I hope the Inquiry will acknowledge that. As we all know, the study period was “arbitrarily” cast based upon a 50 year life cycle for MF. And a study without essentially no sensitivity analysis. It is now so obvious. FLW<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-69049853375000362612018-10-31T00:15:49.636-02:302018-10-31T00:15:49.636-02:30Brown’s role and his background are really questio...Brown’s role and his background are really questionable. Note the Commission at one point in decisions addressing standing and counsel for same and related matters ruled against Brown representing consumers while also being paid as legal counsel. Suggestion here was akin to double dipping! NL is a small community (2 nd smallest province in Canada) and remains vulnerable to abuse. To me, Atlantic provinces as an entity will happen within 10-15 years. Strength is in being part of a larger community. FLWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-84745422945865462092018-10-30T15:49:38.442-02:302018-10-30T15:49:38.442-02:30OIL ON THE BRAIN...yep that's really what it a...OIL ON THE BRAIN...yep that's really what it all came down to. The devil that made me do it was two pronged!!! On one hand it was a blessing...just sit back and watch the oil money roll in from the off shore as world oil prices skyrocket. And on the other hand 62 per cent of the CPU for the island isolated option was the projected world oil prices well into the future, like 57 years to keep holyrood going. Now given these two unknowns no one this side of eternity had any idea to the answer to that question, and anyone with just 2 brain cells working would not take try and predict. And as I have said before, when Cathy's candidate came to my house for my vote, that was the silly line he was towing. "WHO WOULD RATHER GIVE YOUR MONEY TO! THE CHEVRONS OF THIS WORLD OR YOUR OWN COMPANY, NSLCOR." And of course I told him how silly I thought he was, cause what goes up must come down, and low and behold it came crashing down to around $40 a barrel within a year. I also told him that the USA was into their fracking program and were predicting self sufficiency with in a couple of short years. And when they gave up sending barrels of money to the Middle East in return for barrels of oil, the price would come down. Yes and that happened too. So the bottom line is they had oil on the brain on one hand and $$$$ signs danced in their heads on the other hand. The poor buggers were gone completely bonkers says Joe blow. Cool down by for a year or two, take a deep breath, smell the coffee or the roses or maybe the weed. That's was the bottom line and what got us in this dam mess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-90643381864523179772018-10-30T15:11:26.616-02:302018-10-30T15:11:26.616-02:30Why does the Consumer Advocate (Dennis Brown) have...Why does the Consumer Advocate (Dennis Brown) have another lawyer John Hogan asking all the questions and representing him (and thus us, the rate payer)?<br /><br />Is this so that he and his firm can charge for TWO lawyers rather than one ? Is he looking after our best interests or his own ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com