tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post205234623834155387..comments2023-10-25T07:29:40.789-02:30Comments on UNCLE GNARLEY: PAUL DAVIS KEPT LID ON RELEASE OF COST OVERRUNS PRIOR TO 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONDes Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566013585647491614noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-59002291962565407892019-06-20T10:43:02.808-02:302019-06-20T10:43:02.808-02:30You are becoming a troll and will soon ignore you....You are becoming a troll and will soon ignore you. I have told you several times you asked how reliable my NSP is. I responded a half hour per year. You make shit up and I am tiring of your bullshit.Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-23815527828904750332019-06-19T16:15:29.077-02:302019-06-19T16:15:29.077-02:30It was called "The Shock Doctrine" by Na...It was called "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Kline. Get ready for the assault on your social services.Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-47315291049817229292019-06-19T15:11:03.803-02:302019-06-19T15:11:03.803-02:30A dose of malevolent narcissism and lots and lots ...A dose of malevolent narcissism and lots and lots of cash to shut up the insiders with any political power, while we poor souls whistled in the wind about the cost, need, spur, demand etc. The chump was disempowered by regulatory neutering and I still don't get that not even one good man stood up at this point and demanded answers. Why were the PUB and JRP denied the financial info needed to determine the cost and need.Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-91271715050290706382019-06-19T14:59:59.286-02:302019-06-19T14:59:59.286-02:30Joe Dudley Dooright is in on the gag. Expect no wh...Joe Dudley Dooright is in on the gag. Expect no white horses on the horizon!Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-85797842866028193312019-06-19T14:57:37.602-02:302019-06-19T14:57:37.602-02:30The Proles are in a deep slumber. Best not to hav...The Proles are in a deep slumber. Best not to have ideas and raise ones head. Misery is comfort in common. Leaders are quickly identified as aberrant and are isolated despite telling the truth.<br /><br />As Stephen Colbert says truthiness rules the world today! As Dunderdale and Davis and Williams and Ed Martin etc knew from the outset to shut up and keep the sheep in the dark while the treasury was looted. <br /><br />They all have blood on their hands and no one with balls remains to even ask the right questions.<br /><br />The bastards will wail for the spur to fail. I heard one idiot testify that seeps would warn of impending failure of the spur showing no understanding of progressive , rapid (less than an hour) slides.Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-64137738356694888402019-06-19T14:40:33.492-02:302019-06-19T14:40:33.492-02:30Exactly Maurice. All in cahoots and all determined...Exactly Maurice. All in cahoots and all determined to keep the public in the dark! What a tangled web they weave eh Maurice?Bruno Marcocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076165212559914463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-7737724156196378782019-06-19T13:07:01.330-02:302019-06-19T13:07:01.330-02:30Expert Witness, George J was great. Didn't he...Expert Witness, George J was great. Didn't hear everything today, maybe half, but what I did was spot on. He was also very plainspoken to leave no room for misunderstanding his meaning. The Commissioner should have heard excellent guidance on many key issues. People who missed it should watch the videos on the Inquiry website. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-48100196084595107852019-06-19T09:24:49.758-02:302019-06-19T09:24:49.758-02:30There a many highly competent and ethical people w...There a many highly competent and ethical people within this government. However, they area a minority and kept in check by a critical mass of bad people. By bad I mean they are not in senior positions by merit or qualifications, they are simply there because of personal or political connections. These people are just like the terrible people we see at this inquiry. There are Ed Martin clones throughout government.<br /><br />If you were to purge the executive (DM / ADMs / Directors) of all departments and bring in a 3rd party agency to conduct proper recruitment drive, the problem of competent governance could be solved. Nothing less than a wholesale purge will do. The new employees would then have to rebuild every department into something functional. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-57208424268928337772019-06-18T19:39:40.857-02:302019-06-18T19:39:40.857-02:30So anon 00:04, you actually believe these goddanme...So anon 00:04, you actually believe these goddanmed skeets and dimwitted fools are competent and trustworthy enough to deliver proper governance in the best interests of the citizenry?<br /><br />What kind of fairy-tale dreamworld must you be living in then?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-15502764090500651612019-06-18T19:00:31.412-02:302019-06-18T19:00:31.412-02:30By today's expert, it seemed whatever one must...By today's expert, it seemed whatever one must do right for a successful projects, Nalcor did the opposite.<br /> Didn't see all he had to say, but in particular, to making decisions quick and at the site being best and most efficient. Recall Nalcor with the head office slow decisions, because he was too busy travelling over the world,he could not devote enough time to site situations, but that was the right model for management Nalcor said. The expert Sure shot to shit Nalcor's management rigid approach, and we see that those that quit and complained in writing, were right according to this expert. And besides, it's a common sense approach.<br /> With the Spanish conquest of America, they landed , and ordered to burn their boats so no opportunity to change plans and with a few hundred men conquered millions. Not good for the conquered, but if the conquisadors said we must get decisions from Spain first? We will send one vessel back for orders, and they should get back by next year.........<br /> And too Stalingrad, 1.8 million lives lost..........and ignoring field conditions and waiting for Hitler far away to direct the generals.........a German boodgoddle, so luck for the Russians, <br /> Maybe if moose hunting, one should phone home, to head office, to say if ok to shoot, rather than what is going on in the field, and the moose about to take off. <br /> Nalcor wants respect? Was it Hogan who suggested Nalcor should apologise to Nflders? But even that is a worthless gesture, with 13 billion wasted. Our suffering has not yet started from this, until the loan repayments start. But yesterday we saw several who cared little about 300 million.......what's 300 million, hey b'y? <br />CBC online piece by Roberts, showed the guy laughing his head off, as if he won the lotto.<br />WinstonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-52405793737453024492019-06-18T18:15:16.818-02:302019-06-18T18:15:16.818-02:30A concerted effort should be made to make one of t...A concerted effort should be made to make one of the key players in this massive fraud,a fall guy---then wait and see each and everyone else try to protect themselves and start the ball rolling by finger pointing. Given the collusion of all players now by hiding under the cone of silence, no one is going to "rat" on the other unless someone is made an example of.<br />Boy oh boy oh boy---were we ever screwed! There has never before been such a massive crime been committed on a vulnerable public.<br />Danny Williams, Kathy Dunderdale, Paul Davis and most certainly Ed Martin MUST be taken to task and held accountable.----Jail time must be handed out to protect us from future sleeveens like the aforementioned.<br /><br />Waynenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-79694214519493018952019-06-18T17:58:14.500-02:302019-06-18T17:58:14.500-02:30Yes agree with you BF. Great presentation. Simplif...Yes agree with you BF. Great presentation. Simplified it, so the average Joe could understand it, but I missed most of it. Yes, every MHA could have understood what they were getting into, and I suspect most of them would have balked at it. Yep, you put the right time and cost on it from the beginning, not say you are going to do it for six and the actual cost is twelve. No one asked about the red meat syndrome, but he probably would have you hove out of the room, you don't do that kind of stuff. Collerabation, coordination cooperation, communication, are the key action words. Respect and trust. Did he mention teamwork, maybe he did, but those who don't know how to organize usually throw that word in there and think they have solved all problems. Like having an army of men and have them gainfully employed every hour on the job and not just waiting around for materials, or the other contractor gets out of your way. Lot to be learned by just having his book Joe blow would say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-83131788165771826992019-06-18T17:32:53.791-02:302019-06-18T17:32:53.791-02:30But did CBC not air your comment? Also don't f...But did CBC not air your comment? Also don't forget "not reliable"<br />Did they recently say the DC line was 99 % on,and I pointed out that means it is off about 24 hrs, so very bad. And now Paddick say 99.99, or 99.999 % on.......? 99.99 is off 8.76 hrs , twice as bad as our present outage standard of 2.8 hrs, and 99.999 is power off 0.876 hrs, so 3 times better than present, so as good as Bruno promises with wind and Bruno batteries ( a Brunofact, with low probability of P1 maybe). <br /> So Nalcor is reacting to what is so far actually poor reliability and making it up as they go......admitting GE software problems. And cannot yet get 300 MW , only half of that and mostly only 45 MW, making that sound like a lot. That is but 5% of the DC line 900 MW rating, less than our small gas turbines of 50 MW.<br /> Initially impressed with Paddick, first 1/2 hr and downhill from there. No idea of back up if MFs goes down . No contracts to import power. Suggesting maybe possible to import and export via the ML at the same time (cannot do at the same time), seeking sympathy for Nalcor staff, (missed his comment on naysayers, but the CA got him on that.) In house elasticity numbers exist but quiet on that. Nalcor working on mitigation but Synapse etc a thorn in their side? Didn't want to talk about Isolated options per sanction. Too much praise for Stan Marshall, yet no doubt they took over a mess. <br /> Not too keen of a ratepayer consumer rep be on the Board. I had considered a few years ago applying for a Nfld Hydro director,having past Nfld hydro experience and interest for wind and CDM and island hydro........... but figured a waste of time being out of step with others for mega projects. I know of another experienced engineer who was considering but didn't. As a naysayer, I would naturally be blackballed.<br />Winston AdamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-59383761536376994092019-06-18T17:01:02.613-02:302019-06-18T17:01:02.613-02:30I just watched the testimony of George Jergeas at ...I just watched the testimony of George Jergeas at the Inquiry.<br /><br />All I could think of listening to this man talk was I wish he had been consulted to at least speak to the decision makers in Government, and possibly the Nalcor board of directors before this project was even sanctioned?<br /><br />I would normally have said he probably should have presented to the managers at NALCOR itself, but as we have seen numerous times throughout this process, the management team at NALCOR weren’t prepared to listen to anybody other than themselves anyway.<br /><br />Hopefully, this guy would have been able to educate our political decision makers of exactly what we were getting into and the full implications of exactly how much risk was been taken on with this project.<br /><br />Almost every example he gave and studies he performed you could have simply taken the name off of each study and replace it with the name NALCOR and he would be dead on point.<br /><br />Something tells me that many of the points he was making will make it into Justice LeBlanc’s final report.Bottom Feeders Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07148643222872976241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-76111726595756704642019-06-18T15:33:20.842-02:302019-06-18T15:33:20.842-02:30Two of my earlier posts essentially saying what th...Two of my earlier posts essentially saying what the expert witness is putting forth:---<br /><br /><br />Maurice Adams31 May 2019 at 09:33<br /><br />There has been much inquiry focus on what is referred to as an 'aggressive schedule' --- as if the problem was that Nalcor should have allocated 6 instead of 4 years to complete and that was the major issue.<br /><br />But the project could have been done in the 4 years IF Nalcor had properly assessed AND COSTED the resources needed to get it done in 4 years.<br /><br />BUT THAT WOULD HAVE SHOWN THE REAL COST TO HAVE BEEN ABOUT $10 BILLION --- and that was not on.<br /><br />So, just leave the cost and schedule at the $6 billion and 4 year projection to make all things look more palatable.<br /><br />I would suggest that from beginning Nalcor knew or should have known that the real cost would be around the $10 billion mark. So the so-called 'aggressive schedule' focus is in some ways kind of a straw man.<br /><br />There should be a much stronger focus/investigation into the demand, oil price forecasts, original,etc. estimates.<br /><br />Maurice Adams15 June 2019 at 11:25<br /><br />And it has long been my view that the cost estimates were purposely, and from the beginning understated (and the demand and oil price/CPW difference overstated) so as to achieve public, house of assembly, opposition party, and cabinet/government approval/sanction.<br /><br />Then the real costs would be increased incrementally --- in digestible chunks, so as to not stir public opinion (just like turning up the water temperature on a frog slowly so that it won't notice what is happening to it).<br /><br />Nothing unintentional about this, and therefore these so-called cost overages/overruns caan only be characterized as 'overruns' when comparing them to the original 'publicly advertised' cost estimates.<br /><br />If the need, costs and risks had been properly assessed in the beginning, the public would have known back in 2011 that these were overstated, understated and unassessed respectively --- consistent with my comment to the CBC in early 2011 that "we don't need it, can't afford it, and it's too high as risk" .Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-32513288270569525502019-06-18T15:29:30.984-02:302019-06-18T15:29:30.984-02:30It's absolutely horrific to see such Incompete...It's absolutely horrific to see such Incompetence in the current Board Chairman. Who is he working for? Not for us the ratepayers. I think he's working to or orchestrate business deals. The failure of Nalcor will be an opportunistic frenzy of profitable dealmaking for business tycoons like Paddick and Marshall. The higher the financial stress they impose on the public assets, the better their private opportunities. The wolves are running the henhouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-33251879801755780732019-06-18T14:45:07.843-02:302019-06-18T14:45:07.843-02:30I can't leave it there.
So as Chair of the Na...I can't leave it there.<br /><br />So as Chair of the Nalcor Board, he will wait till Muskrat is finished before strategizing on how to best prepare for the pending 2041 arrival of 5500 MW of Upper Churchill power.<br /><br />Peachy ---- just peachy.<br /><br />Not doing Muskrat and thereby not destroying the province's fiscal strength would have been a good place to start (which the very name of my 2012 www.vision2041 website pointed toward.<br /><br />But I was only one of the many of Paddick's "naysayers" who he, not even now, cannot admit was at least a decade ahead him, Martin and the others who continue to lead (drag) this province into the gutter.<br /><br /><br /><br />Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-44915587165533158412019-06-18T14:45:00.485-02:302019-06-18T14:45:00.485-02:30Tuned in during Leblanc's questions and Paddic...Tuned in during Leblanc's questions and Paddick spewed useless garbage. When asked about Nalcor's plans for Churchill Falls in 2041, Paddick said Quebec would have to build 6 or 7 Muskrats and that's not possible he said. Well, Paddick should resign today because he is clueless to energy markets and trends. HQ could bring on 5000MW of wind or other renewables very quickly and on very good financing terms that may look better than the cost of renewing aging transmission infrastructure. Who knows what other viable options will exist on another 20 years. Plus HQ can do plenty of CDM if they choose so maybe they won't need the full 5000MW. Yet, Mega hydro is all fools like Paddick can think of. They are probably still hoping to do Gull Island yet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-50476906282041759082019-06-18T14:15:56.921-02:302019-06-18T14:15:56.921-02:30http://vocm.com/news/stress-on-nalcor-staff-taking...http://vocm.com/news/stress-on-nalcor-staff-taking-a-major-toll-says-board-chair/<br /><br />What a crock of shit!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-16549069943028769232019-06-18T14:14:48.122-02:302019-06-18T14:14:48.122-02:30I would put Brendan Paddock in a category not that...I would put Brendan Paddock in a category not that different than Ed Martin. And I will leave it there.Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-38885649853540336282019-06-18T13:50:19.899-02:302019-06-18T13:50:19.899-02:30Just read the article again and I find it shocking...Just read the article again and I find it shocking that only EY was ethical. "Both EY Reports remain shielded from public view." -- will they be published by the inquiry?<br /><br />How can so many people be so thoroughly corrupt? How did Crook of the Executive Council, Julia Mullaley become our Auditor General? Was she appointed as a gift for her part in this fraud?<br /><br />The whole system is so corrupt that it cannot be cleaned up from within. It needs an intervention - a massive intervention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-2486368583910394452019-06-18T13:49:20.841-02:302019-06-18T13:49:20.841-02:30Bern Coffey brought out an important point ---- fo...Bern Coffey brought out an important point ---- for a company as large as Nalcor, the shareholder had (and has) NO MEMBER on the board of directors.<br /><br />A convenient way to avoid a written record, no clear reporting responsibility up through any government department, and ultimately no timely political accountability, it seems.<br /><br />Maurice Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-2688003624094430382019-06-18T08:39:54.057-02:302019-06-18T08:39:54.057-02:30There is dem, and those and these and dat, if you ...There is dem, and those and these and dat, if you don't like it shut your trap...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-36633066052733243142019-06-18T07:55:47.462-02:302019-06-18T07:55:47.462-02:30"let me in""let me in"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-21861700615587444272019-06-18T07:54:54.867-02:302019-06-18T07:54:54.867-02:30Anon 00:04 problem for you and your fellow apologi...Anon 00:04 problem for you and your fellow apologists, the politicians and senior govt. officials keep repeating the same self-inflicted mistakes.. Ms. Brewer, the latest example of an incompetent whale-like person who gets a seat at top of civil service without a freaking clue as to what she's supposed to do with public money .... oh shur every bid comes in low and costs climb, shur we expects dat, i'm just here to get fat on da public and let whoever let me suck the place dryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com