(CAUTION: WORDS LIKE BULLSHIT, BLATHER, AND BOMBAST USED)
The master
of spin, Nalcor CEO Ed Martin, should be weary of his own storytelling. But, when
even reporters offer no interruption, I guess he just can’t help himself.
It’s the
kind of stuff that makes your teeth grind because, intuitively, you know that Muskrat
Falls, at $10-12 billion, will be reported as just an innocuous
detail; reporters will never note their failure to challenge the blather (or the decisions) of
officials like him.
Recently
(July 14th) Ed Martin toured the Muskrat Falls site with some of the
provincial Premiers. The CEO told a media "scrum” he can’t guarantee the project will generate first power by 2017 as
scheduled, or if it will meet budget targets.
The
statement contained uncharacteristic bluntness for one who never wastes an
opportunity to ‘gild the lily’. But, alas, the slip was deliberate; the sad
state of the project is beyond plausible deniability, even for Ed Martin.
The CEO had
come to Labrador to be praised, not pilloried; reporters had plenty of evidence
to upbraid Nalcor's man but chose to leave his self-praise unedited.
