This week the Minister of Natural
Resources told the House of Assembly there is no relationship between the
ongoing Hydro-Québec lawsuit and Muskrat Falls.
"Obviously, there is a court case
going on”, Dally said, “but the court case itself is with respect to the
interpretation…of the 1969 power contract. The renewal of that contract and the
agreement with Hydro-Québec as to how the water will flow, how the power
will flow, whether it will be continuous or interrupted — that is
exactly what the court case is all about. It is not about water
rights."
When Derrick Dalley speaks you can be pretty
certain he is wrong; though, most often, he is just unintelligible.
No other energy Minister has ever been as
comfortably uninformed, effortlessly ignorant, contentedly lacking knowledge, or
happily short on logic and common sense.
The suggestion the legal case, now
winding its way through the Quebec Superior Court, will have no impact on the
Water Management Agreement is simply disingenuous – or evidence of a lack of
anything else to say – besides the truth.
Some explanation will help you understand
the issue.
