Editor's Note: When David Vardy released the essay entitled “Making Best Use of the Lower Churchill: The Muskrat Falls Development”, which he had prepared
as a brief for the Action Canada Fellowship in 2011, it constituted the first sceptical
appraisal of the many claims of the Williams Administration regarding the
project.
It took six more years before then Fortis CEO and current Nalcor CEO Stan Marshall got around to describing the project as a “boondoggle”. But Vardy was there, at the starting gate, absent any but the public interest, to warn of that likely outcome and to replace hyperbole and falsity, often issued under the guise of patriotism, with objective analysis.
It took six more years before then Fortis CEO and current Nalcor CEO Stan Marshall got around to describing the project as a “boondoggle”. But Vardy was there, at the starting gate, absent any but the public interest, to warn of that likely outcome and to replace hyperbole and falsity, often issued under the guise of patriotism, with objective analysis.
It can rightly be said that Vardy not just wrote the primer on
the Muskrat Falls project; he was the "first responder" sounding the alarm, demanding notice of Muskrat as
ill-considered, possibly injurious, public policy.
