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The public review for Bay du Nord — both in timing and format — has yet to be announced. Details will only follow the filing of a Development Application to the offshore regulator (now the CNLOEB). But I hope to hear more from the workers' perspective. May safety be the priority.
Cougar 491 in 2009 was a major subject through the Hebron public review in 2011-2012 with response to the disaster ongoing. New committees, an active issue of night flights with the offshore regulator, workers and their families naturally demanding safety specifics..
The Hebron Public Review and heartfelt presentations made by people like CEP Local 2121 President Brian Murphy spring to mind. A transcript is no longer available in full online. The inquiry site was taken down years ago (I did protest). Snippets made the final report. www.cnlopb.ca/wp-content/u...
Thinking about Cougar 491. In the aftermath, there was the Inquiry. But a lot of discussion after the inquiry as well, often led by union reps and workers, specific to the subject of workplace safety offshore.
Dear autocorrect, if it's a name... Just don't. Just trust that I know. It can be different. Just let it go.
Just catching up on this 2024 docuseries on Netflix. The quote does jump out.
"It's not that a handful of evil men can do evil things. It's that a handful of evil men can convince a large majority of ordinary men to help them do evil things." -Devin Pendas, From "Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial"
Ontario Secures Groundbreaking National Energy Corridor Agreement | Ontario Newsroom share.google/s4b6XNpHgFJy...
"This is very encouraging." -Harrison Ford capping off a beautiful speech accepting a lifetime achievement award. Legend.
There's something really special about the Settle Down podcast. Even better on YouTube when you're getting drawn in around the table... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylsn...
I should also say I haven't seen the schematics but the at one point the expansion concept involved blowing out more of Southside. Looking forward to getting a look at what's there now just in terms of footprint and construction concept.
I should say, here's the press release on today's announcement: www.gov.nl.ca/releases/202...
It's funny to think how this was an issue under the Harper Conservatives and a major promise in NL in the first of the Trudeau runs. Promise was made in reference to the plant, on helping shoulder the cost of new wastewater regulations. How many people remember that I wonder?
Also we should talk more about the 'boring' municipal things because they're not at all boring or small things.
St. John's has funds for a first phase of the wastewater treatment facility upgrade. The saga of this whole thing... holy moly. Lots of stories... years... told in 2018 "good news coming." (From 2018: www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...) But hey, glad there's progress in my lifetime I s'pose.
Changing Trails: Nunatsiavummiut losing traditional routes as climate change wreaks havoc in Labrador – The Independent share.google/Mx1pBspdAg68...
This may all get me blacklisted or something but I genuinely am scratching my head. Just at a stage of trying to figure it all out and struggling. It's not even looking for a guarantee of funding, just qualifying to submit project proposals for the possibility. So I don't know...
Fundamentally- if not Canada Council (and provincial ArtsNL have told me they're following the same) then is anyone out there supporting long-form work in journalism that's not memoir? I just feel like there's a key here I'm not seeing, or a step I'm missing.
I'm posting this because both just now and in other instances I've had people suggest they've known the opposite-journalists to qualify to apply and land funding. And that makes me wonder how many other journalists have had my experience? Is there more mixed experience?
I went back to check the response. Specifically: "Though the CV clearly shows significant experiences in journalism, there did not seem to be precise information on your experience and accomplishments in creative writing. Please resubmit providing more information about your artistic activities."
There was two-stage process where (1) you qualify for applying to Canada Council programs before (2) actually trying for the specific funding. I didn't get past stage one. As I mentioned just now, I was told my experience in journalism didn't count.
Just off a Canadian Freelance Guild session on something unrelated but a little bit in passing after the session/recording wrapped up touched on project funding. So I mentioned my attempt at seeking out Canada Council funding for nonfiction book project.
Environment minister will work with Saskatchewan to “ensure” it follows the law, her office reiterated, as the province pushes to keep its coal plants open past Canada’s deadline. Dabrusin’s office was mum when asked if she would intervene thenarwhal.ca/saskatchewan...
Just announced: $206.4 million CIB loan for development of wind power project in Nova Scotia. (33 turbines, 148.5MW) "CIB’s involvement is enabling a faster build out of the project at a lower cost to ratepayers" cib-bic.ca/en/projects/...
Bottom line is every NL government has found we haven't had the money. We've had money for studies to tell us we don't have the money. They have to be redone as estimates aren't static... Lesson: no point getting into it without planning/knowing even roughly first on how to cover the cost.
Wrote about gulls in 2013 (13 years ago! wild)... About same time or not long after, I was trying to access to a report on organic waste management options and costs. There was a commitment to composting by 2020. That was pushed back couple years later to 2025... www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...
