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Husky finds another 60M barrels offshore
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | Labels: huskey, labrador, newfoundland, offshore, oil, white rose | 0 comments »
Day 15 Olympic Torch Relay: St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Monday, November 16, 2009 | Labels: 2010 olympics, labrador, newfoundland, olymipcs, st. john's | 0 comments »
Newfoundland & Labrador: Innovation in Renewable Energy
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 | Labels: labrador, nalcor, newfoundland, renewable energy, video | 0 comments »
Humpback Whales in Battle Harbour, Labrador
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | Labels: labrador, videos, whales | 1 comments »
Where the oil is: Drilling under the world's toughest conditions
Saturday, March 14, 2009 | Labels: hebron, hibernia, labrador, newfoundland, oil, white rose | 0 comments »
reportonbusiness.com: Megaprojects of profit, megawatts of bitterness
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | Labels: hyrdoelectricity, labrador, megaproject, newfoundland, quebec | 0 comments »
reportonbusiness.com: Megaprojects of profit, megawatts of bitterness: "e until 2041, explains why Newfoundlanders have never been able to stoma"
Power play pits Quebec against Newfoundland.. Could this be considered an act of war? It would be if it was nation against nation!?!
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New videos from NewfoundlandLabrador.com
Monday, January 19, 2009 | Labels: labrador, links, newfoundland, tourism, videos | 0 comments »
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http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/architecture.wmv
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Newfoundland’s coming of age
Monday, December 22, 2008 | Labels: canada, economy, labrador, links, newfoundland, oil | 0 comments »
On April 1, 2009, Newfoundland and Labrador will have been a member of the Canadian family for 60 years. Significantly, many Newfoundlanders will view this anniversary as the time to celebrate Canada joining them. Such is the nature of this tumultuous 60-year relationship, where the benefits of union are weighted according to perspective and the tides of economic opportunity.
As this milestone birthday approaches, it is important to examine Newfoundland’s re-emerging nationalism and its impact on the Canadian federation. While Quebec and Ontario possess the population and the political potency of a majority of federal seats in Ottawa and Alberta the wealth, it is Newfoundland that sets the tone of change in the nation.
Newfoundland is redefining the traditional model of federal-provincial relations as it has moved from have-not to have province and demands that the world take notice. Emboldened by an energy-based economy that has finally reached puberty, fuelled by history’s realities and myths, and captained by a new-generation skipper, Canada’s youngest child is coming of age.
Last year, the province collected $1.5 billion in oil royalties, and it is expecting at least another $1.7 billion in 2008 – the kind of money that allowed the government to post a huge $1.4-billion budget surplus this year, an amount equal to five per cent of the province’s GDP. Newfoundland and Labrador was the country’s hottest economy in 2007. Its real GDP growth of 9.1 per cent was more than three times the national average.
As this milestone birthday approaches, it is important to examine Newfoundland’s re-emerging nationalism and its impact on the Canadian federation. While Quebec and Ontario possess the population and the political potency of a majority of federal seats in Ottawa and Alberta the wealth, it is Newfoundland that sets the tone of change in the nation.
Newfoundland is redefining the traditional model of federal-provincial relations as it has moved from have-not to have province and demands that the world take notice. Emboldened by an energy-based economy that has finally reached puberty, fuelled by history’s realities and myths, and captained by a new-generation skipper, Canada’s youngest child is coming of age.
Last year, the province collected $1.5 billion in oil royalties, and it is expecting at least another $1.7 billion in 2008 – the kind of money that allowed the government to post a huge $1.4-billion budget surplus this year, an amount equal to five per cent of the province’s GDP. Newfoundland and Labrador was the country’s hottest economy in 2007. Its real GDP growth of 9.1 per cent was more than three times the national average.
Is the Newfoundland accent disappearing?
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Newfoundlanders, Van Herk points out, speak the most linguistically diverse English on the planet.
"There's more different ways of saying things, or pronouncing things, in Newfoundland English than in any of the other varieties," he says.
People in Petty Harbour, where the accent is a mix of west English and Irish, don't speak like those in Ferryland a few kilometres down the Southern Shore highway, or in Marystown, Corner Brook or La Scie. For that matter, they don't speak like people in the capital, where the accent even varies from one part of the city to another.
"Newfoundlanders are very aware of where people are from. But people from outside Newfoundland have this idea that there is a Newfoundland accent. And you see that famously in The Shipping News, where (the author) takes features from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and puts them all together in a way that no one person would likely use so by the time she's finished she's got this sort of invented Newfoundland English."
"There's more different ways of saying things, or pronouncing things, in Newfoundland English than in any of the other varieties," he says.
People in Petty Harbour, where the accent is a mix of west English and Irish, don't speak like those in Ferryland a few kilometres down the Southern Shore highway, or in Marystown, Corner Brook or La Scie. For that matter, they don't speak like people in the capital, where the accent even varies from one part of the city to another.
"Newfoundlanders are very aware of where people are from. But people from outside Newfoundland have this idea that there is a Newfoundland accent. And you see that famously in The Shipping News, where (the author) takes features from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and puts them all together in a way that no one person would likely use so by the time she's finished she's got this sort of invented Newfoundland English."
'We wish you well': Williams to AbitibiBowater
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | Labels: danny williams, labrador, links, newfoundland | 1 comments »
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams says that if AbitibiBowater wants to start a legal fight, it is welcome to try, but he insists his government has the legislative power to expropriate the company's assets in the province.
"We have full authority to do what we've done. We have full legislative authority," Williams said.
"The legislature in Newfoundland and Labrador is paramount in this jurisdiction and we stand by that. If AbitibiBowater wants to launch any legal challenges, then that is up to them. We have no control over that. I'm sure they will get legal opinions that indicate our legislature has full authority to do what it's done."
Williams was responding to the company threatening to take legal action after the province passed urgent legislation Tuesday to expropriate the company's provincial assets, with the exception of the mill in Grand Falls-Windsor.
The province is taking ownership of all hydroelectricity rights from the generating station at Star Lake, as well as timber rights to forests on Crown land.
"We have full authority to do what we've done. We have full legislative authority," Williams said.
"The legislature in Newfoundland and Labrador is paramount in this jurisdiction and we stand by that. If AbitibiBowater wants to launch any legal challenges, then that is up to them. We have no control over that. I'm sure they will get legal opinions that indicate our legislature has full authority to do what it's done."
Williams was responding to the company threatening to take legal action after the province passed urgent legislation Tuesday to expropriate the company's provincial assets, with the exception of the mill in Grand Falls-Windsor.
The province is taking ownership of all hydroelectricity rights from the generating station at Star Lake, as well as timber rights to forests on Crown land.
Newfoundland and Labrador Named World’s Top Travel Secret
Monday, December 15, 2008 | Labels: labrador, newfoundland, tourism | 0 comments »
Wanderlust, one of the United Kingdom’s leading travel magazines, has ranked Newfoundland and Labrador the number one "travel secret" in the world.
The Honourable Clyde Jackman, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, said the magazine’s cover story, entitled 100 Greatest Travel Secrets, lists this province at the very top of its choices of unique travel destinations.
"Living here, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that we are viewed throughout the world as an exotic location, particularly to the traveller who is seeking compelling experiences in places which are off the beaten track," said Minister Jackman.
"This latest recognition adds to the growing list of travel guides, travel publications, articles and websites which have featured this province as a distinct destination where visitors can have these extraordinary and authentic experiences," the minister added. "If Newfoundland and Labrador is still considered a ‘secret’ in some circles – then clearly the secret is getting out."
Newfoundland and Labrador shares the top 100 list with destinations such as the Tarkine Rainforest in the north-west region of Tasmania; Porjus, a small village in Sweden, and the Viñales Valley in Cuba, among others.
Minister Jackman said the province’s award-winning marketing campaign has certainly contributed to an increased awareness of Newfoundland and Labrador as a travel destination of choice.
"In the past five years, the Provincial Government has doubled the tourism marketing budget from $6 million to $12 million," said Minister Jackman. "This investment is clearly paying off."
Since 2003, non-resident visitation to Newfoundland and Labrador has increased, on average, by three per cent each year – or 15 per cent overall.
The Honourable Clyde Jackman, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, said the magazine’s cover story, entitled 100 Greatest Travel Secrets, lists this province at the very top of its choices of unique travel destinations.
"Living here, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that we are viewed throughout the world as an exotic location, particularly to the traveller who is seeking compelling experiences in places which are off the beaten track," said Minister Jackman.
"This latest recognition adds to the growing list of travel guides, travel publications, articles and websites which have featured this province as a distinct destination where visitors can have these extraordinary and authentic experiences," the minister added. "If Newfoundland and Labrador is still considered a ‘secret’ in some circles – then clearly the secret is getting out."
Newfoundland and Labrador shares the top 100 list with destinations such as the Tarkine Rainforest in the north-west region of Tasmania; Porjus, a small village in Sweden, and the Viñales Valley in Cuba, among others.
Minister Jackman said the province’s award-winning marketing campaign has certainly contributed to an increased awareness of Newfoundland and Labrador as a travel destination of choice.
"In the past five years, the Provincial Government has doubled the tourism marketing budget from $6 million to $12 million," said Minister Jackman. "This investment is clearly paying off."
Since 2003, non-resident visitation to Newfoundland and Labrador has increased, on average, by three per cent each year – or 15 per cent overall.
St. John’s economy hot, but it won’t last
| Labels: economy, labrador, linkjs, newfoundland, oil, st. john's | 0 comments »
In the week Canada officially entered into economic recession, Newfoundland and Labrador, once Canada’s poorest province, announced it will post a $1.2-billion surplus for the current fiscal year.
That’s more than double the surplus projected in April 2007.
Yes, the global financial crisis has come to Newfoundland but you would never know it by the construction boom, housing prices and car sales in the province. It seems oil and timing are everything and this time it’s in the province’s favour. There’s no talk of recession on Water Street.
And it’s oil that’s greasing the economic boom in St. John’s.
Although oil prices are dropping, the industry is in a unique position here because of its development cycle.
As Tim Murphy of Chevron explains, "The three existing production fields are mature, paid off and making money. As long as operating costs are met there is money to be made.
"Hebron and other future projects are not due for five to 10 years and not really dependent on today’s oil prices. So planning work continues." Chevron is expanding its harbourfront offices to accommodate the team working on next year’s offshore exploration program on the deep-water Orphan Basin site.
The Hebron project offices are opening in the new year and recruitment ads will be in the papers soon. Seminars for supplies are scheduled for this spring. Expansion to the Terra Nova and White Rose oil fields is underway and Hibernia South is expected to be announced soon.
St. John’s looks every bit the boomtown. New Mercedes, Porsches and Land Rovers jostle with contractors’ pickup trucks at the coffee shops in the morning. But falling oil prices could put an end to the boom next year.
That’s more than double the surplus projected in April 2007.
Yes, the global financial crisis has come to Newfoundland but you would never know it by the construction boom, housing prices and car sales in the province. It seems oil and timing are everything and this time it’s in the province’s favour. There’s no talk of recession on Water Street.
And it’s oil that’s greasing the economic boom in St. John’s.
Although oil prices are dropping, the industry is in a unique position here because of its development cycle.
As Tim Murphy of Chevron explains, "The three existing production fields are mature, paid off and making money. As long as operating costs are met there is money to be made.
"Hebron and other future projects are not due for five to 10 years and not really dependent on today’s oil prices. So planning work continues." Chevron is expanding its harbourfront offices to accommodate the team working on next year’s offshore exploration program on the deep-water Orphan Basin site.
The Hebron project offices are opening in the new year and recruitment ads will be in the papers soon. Seminars for supplies are scheduled for this spring. Expansion to the Terra Nova and White Rose oil fields is underway and Hibernia South is expected to be announced soon.
St. John’s looks every bit the boomtown. New Mercedes, Porsches and Land Rovers jostle with contractors’ pickup trucks at the coffee shops in the morning. But falling oil prices could put an end to the boom next year.
Flush with cash despite oil freefall, N.L. reports
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Labels: budget, labrador, links, newfoundland, oil, surplus | 0 comments »
Despite a slump in world oil prices, the Newfoundland and Labrador government said Tuesday it expects to finish the fiscal year with more than $1 billion in its pocket.
Finance Minister Jerome Kennedy, however, laid out a set of dire warnings to accompany a fiscal update that projects a $1.27-billion surplus for the current operating year.
That's more than double the $544 million that the government expected as a surplus in a budget brought down in April.
Kennedy said the government is earning significantly more revenue than expected this year because oil prices for most of the year were far higher than expected.
However, Kennedy warned that the Newfoundland and Labrador budget will take a beating if oil prices continue to be flattened by a global economic crisis.
"If oil prices continue at below $60 US per barrel, we could be facing a deficit of several hundred million dollars next year and could potentially be facing deficits in the years to come," Kennedy told reporters at Confederation Building in St. John's.
For instance, if oil trades at $60 US per barrel — a figure the government is expecting to hold over next year — it would incur a deficit of about $200 million in the upcoming year. But if oil stays around the $40 level, that deficit would swell to about $600 million.
'They can call me a Grinch'
Finance Minister Jerome Kennedy, however, laid out a set of dire warnings to accompany a fiscal update that projects a $1.27-billion surplus for the current operating year.
That's more than double the $544 million that the government expected as a surplus in a budget brought down in April.
Kennedy said the government is earning significantly more revenue than expected this year because oil prices for most of the year were far higher than expected.
However, Kennedy warned that the Newfoundland and Labrador budget will take a beating if oil prices continue to be flattened by a global economic crisis.
"If oil prices continue at below $60 US per barrel, we could be facing a deficit of several hundred million dollars next year and could potentially be facing deficits in the years to come," Kennedy told reporters at Confederation Building in St. John's.
For instance, if oil trades at $60 US per barrel — a figure the government is expecting to hold over next year — it would incur a deficit of about $200 million in the upcoming year. But if oil stays around the $40 level, that deficit would swell to about $600 million.
'They can call me a Grinch'
$130M pegged for new oil exploration off Newfoundland
Monday, November 17, 2008 | Labels: exploration, huskey, labrador, newfoundland, oil | 0 comments »
Four oil companies have pledged to spend almost $130 million to look for new sources of oil off Newfoundland's east coast.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced successful bids on five separate areas.
By far, the most significant bid is a partnership between Petro-Canada and Statoil Hydro Canada Ltd., which has pledged to spend $81.9 million over the next five years on a 19,430-hectare parcel, west of the existing White Rose oilfield.
That bid concerns an area in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, the site of all three fields currently in production off Newfoundland.
An additional bid — involving Husky Oil and partner Repsol Exploracion SA, and worth almost $9.5 million — is also based in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced successful bids on five separate areas.
By far, the most significant bid is a partnership between Petro-Canada and Statoil Hydro Canada Ltd., which has pledged to spend $81.9 million over the next five years on a 19,430-hectare parcel, west of the existing White Rose oilfield.
That bid concerns an area in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, the site of all three fields currently in production off Newfoundland.
An additional bid — involving Husky Oil and partner Repsol Exploracion SA, and worth almost $9.5 million — is also based in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin.
Economist predicts megaproject for Labrador
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Labels: labrador, links, megaproject, newfoundland | 1 comments »
A well-known economist says there's a megaproject on the horizon for Labrador and he predicts that will help the province get financing for the Lower Churchill hydroelectric megaproject.
Memorial University economist Wade Locke wouldn't provide details about the potential project when he spoke to CBC News Friday at a meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council in St. John's, where predictions were made about the province's economic future.
The council said oil projects like Hebron, White Rose and soon Hibernia South as well as continued oil exploration will keep the province's economy humming despite financial turmoil across the world. However, the fishery, forestry and tourism sectors are not looking so bright.
It also said projects like the Lower Churchill will be delayed because of the worldwide financial crisis.
Locke disagreed, telling CBC News a new megaproject for Labrador will be announced soon.
Memorial University economist Wade Locke wouldn't provide details about the potential project when he spoke to CBC News Friday at a meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council in St. John's, where predictions were made about the province's economic future.
The council said oil projects like Hebron, White Rose and soon Hibernia South as well as continued oil exploration will keep the province's economy humming despite financial turmoil across the world. However, the fishery, forestry and tourism sectors are not looking so bright.
It also said projects like the Lower Churchill will be delayed because of the worldwide financial crisis.
Locke disagreed, telling CBC News a new megaproject for Labrador will be announced soon.
$2B hydromet plant to be built in Long Harbour
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ale Inco will build a cutting-edge plant at Long Harbour in southern Newfoundland to process nickel extracted from Labrador's gigantic Voisey's Bay mine, the provincial government said Wednesday.
In a statement, the government said Inco planned to use water-based hydromet technology at the plant.
Inco had tested the hydromet technology, which had never been used on the type of ore present at Voisey's Bay, at a demonstration plant that closed earlier in 2008.
Inco had committed to building a traditional smelter if it found the hydromet technology would not work.
"This is tremendous news for Long Harbour and surrounding communities, and we look forward to ground being broken in 2009 and the well-paying jobs it will bring to the area over the next two decades," Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale said in a statement.
In a statement, the government said Inco planned to use water-based hydromet technology at the plant.
Inco had tested the hydromet technology, which had never been used on the type of ore present at Voisey's Bay, at a demonstration plant that closed earlier in 2008.
Inco had committed to building a traditional smelter if it found the hydromet technology would not work.
"This is tremendous news for Long Harbour and surrounding communities, and we look forward to ground being broken in 2009 and the well-paying jobs it will bring to the area over the next two decades," Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale said in a statement.
When the rock gets rich
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | Labels: canada, equalization, labrador, links, newfoundland | 0 comments »
he timing is a bit arbitrary, but at some point in the next year and a half, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador will slip over from being a "have-not" province to a "have."
Just like that.
What a sea change this will represent. The lowest man on the totem pole shooting up past its Atlantic province siblings, past the historic rival (Quebec), past Manitoba to survey the sunny economic uplands of Canada, there to sniff the purer, rarefied air that has been so unquestionably the right for so long of Ontario and the affluent western provinces.
The prospect of "haveness" has been around for a few years. Just last February, for example, the annual satirical Leacock Debate held each year in Toronto featured the proposition, "Newfoundland will stick with Canada even if Ontario sinks." The motion was humorously attacked by the outgoing lieutenant governor of Newfoundland, Edward Roberts, and the former Liberal premier, Brian Tobin. The unlikely defence was mounted by professor Shane O'Dea of Memorial University, something of a Newfoundland nationalist, and the new lieutenant governor, the redoubtable John Crosbie.
"You poor buggers," said Crosbie to the blue-chip audience of lawyers, business folk and academics who had gathered at the University of Toronto. "You've got potholes in your streets and leaks in your bank buildings," he said, laying it on with a trowel. "It's pathetic when you see the reality: beggars on Bloor Street, company chairmen having to drive themselves to work. But here's good news. Newfoundland is going to stick with you, come hell or high water. Even if you all end up on the welfare rolls, we'll tide you over. We'll help you to keep your noses above the waterline."
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Just like that.
What a sea change this will represent. The lowest man on the totem pole shooting up past its Atlantic province siblings, past the historic rival (Quebec), past Manitoba to survey the sunny economic uplands of Canada, there to sniff the purer, rarefied air that has been so unquestionably the right for so long of Ontario and the affluent western provinces.
The prospect of "haveness" has been around for a few years. Just last February, for example, the annual satirical Leacock Debate held each year in Toronto featured the proposition, "Newfoundland will stick with Canada even if Ontario sinks." The motion was humorously attacked by the outgoing lieutenant governor of Newfoundland, Edward Roberts, and the former Liberal premier, Brian Tobin. The unlikely defence was mounted by professor Shane O'Dea of Memorial University, something of a Newfoundland nationalist, and the new lieutenant governor, the redoubtable John Crosbie.
"You poor buggers," said Crosbie to the blue-chip audience of lawyers, business folk and academics who had gathered at the University of Toronto. "You've got potholes in your streets and leaks in your bank buildings," he said, laying it on with a trowel. "It's pathetic when you see the reality: beggars on Bloor Street, company chairmen having to drive themselves to work. But here's good news. Newfoundland is going to stick with you, come hell or high water. Even if you all end up on the welfare rolls, we'll tide you over. We'll help you to keep your noses above the waterline."
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Burn Baby Burn!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 | Labels: canada, labrador, marg delaware, mary walsh, newfoundland, stephen harper | 0 comments »
Oil companies plan $186-million exploration program off Labrador
Friday, September 12, 2008 | Labels: exploration, labrador, links, newfoundland, oil | 0 comments »
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