Paying attention pays its rewards.
On Saturday, The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky showed the benefit of paying attention to the fine print if you want to understand how far off Nalcor and Wade Locke are when they try and conjure up a price per kilowatt hour for Muskrat Falls electricity.
You don’t have to check fine print to understand how poorly Nalcor and the provincial government thinking has been on Muskrat Falls. All you have to do is look at the front end of the clip that NTV used last week of Ed Martin at the news conference announcing that Nalcor and Emera were going to miss their second deadline to finish a deal on the project.
Here’s what Martin said:
"Yesterday, for instance, we were talking about a particular topic, some new points came up which are very helpful to make sure we think through prior to conclusion, and it's no time to make a snap decision at that point."
New points.
Not old ones.
Not changed ones.
New ones.
Completely new.
Never though of before.
Yesterday.
Seven years after Nalcor started planning the most recent version of the Lower Churchill
14 months after Nalcor signed a fairly detailed set of terms that would form the basis of the agreement with Emera.
Someone brings up some “new points” that no one had thought of before.
And now they need some time to think those posers through.
Holy Homer Simpson Moment, Batman.
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