Thanks to so many people on Facebook and Twitter for sharing Saturday's Post: THE PHOTOS NALCOR DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE.
Within the
last 48 hours more than 8,000 readers have read the Blog Post, a stunning
number because, it vastly outnumbered the popular Uncle Gnarley Blog Posts
issued during DARKNL.
The pictures of virtually brand new structural steel being hauled away
as scrap, after Nalcor failed to have the Dome built to speed construction last winter, are just one visual manifestation of Nalcor incompetence. There are many others.
Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars
of work awarded without public tender! Think of the additional cost given the project is horribly off schedule.
Why would so many people be both interested and alarmed? This is a consequence of the secrecy and obfuscation that had insulated the Muskrat Falls project from day one. This is what happens when democratically elected politicians fail to perform their duty, when they cower before unelected bureaucrats masquerading as business mandarins, at great public expense.
These are monies you will have to pay back from your taxes, from your tuition fees, and a host of other "hits" to your pocketbook which the recent Budget initiated.
The Nalcor CEO feels no obligation to transparency on any level, no obligation to mirror the basic requirements of the Public Tender Act, no requirement to answer to the public, who are funding this fiasco.
Some call it the "Dome of Doom"; it is a fitting description
of the $120 million (plus) covering that is now being dismantled before it is even
completed.
Folks, this waste must come to an end. This is going to hurt you on a monumental scale as the costs are tallied over the next couple of years.
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It will continue as long as Nalcor is allowed to remain out of
control; out of reach of objectively independent oversight. Secrecy and
mismanagement have been allowed to obscure huge waste and cost overruns on the
Muskrat Falls project.
People are becoming increasingly concerned. The public are beginning to
realize this Muskrat is not what was promised.
Uncle Gnarley Blog, helped by the Blog's Guest contributors, will
continue illuminate the "goings on" at Muskrat regardless of the
politicians and bureaucrats it may offend.
Frankly, we have not been served well by our politicians who have the
authority and responsibility to deal with Muskrat Falls and with the mismanagement
at Nalcor.
Keep in mind that the Oversight Committee composed of Deputy Ministers is completely ineffective. It is not independent. It is protecting the government not the public interest.
The public has to become involved in the Muskrat Falls problem themselves.
This government will not lift a finger to protect you.
Keep in mind that the Oversight Committee composed of Deputy Ministers is completely ineffective. It is not independent. It is protecting the government not the public interest.
The public has to become involved in the Muskrat Falls problem themselves.
This government will not lift a finger to protect you.
So, please, keep sharing. Because it
is important.
Soon people will connect the fact their taxes are going up, just as
students will
When I was in University, students helped get rid of Joey Smallwood for exactly
the kind of behaviour and offensive public administration on offer right now.
Students and the public, generally, need to
come together to rid ourselves of this new blight upon Newfoundland and
Labrador society, and its long term economic well being.
You need to know Muskrat is far worse than anything Smallwood
attempted and he did some pretty crazy stuff.
Only by more people knowing the truth can we shut Nalcor down. If we
don't deal with Nalcor now, the cost will get bigger than what we can afford;
they may already have.
So, yes, please keep sharing and tweeting!
We need the public to deal with Nalcor, with Muskrat Falls, and with Premier Davis before it is too late.