Pam Frampton: Muskrat Falls was always a done deal, and a bad one – The Telegram
Five years ago, with the Muskrat Falls project barrelling towards sanction, the government was having a hard time staying on point in defending it.
At the time, in November 2012, I wrote: “One week the project was all about clean energy, the next it was job creation, then it was all about being an affordable energy source, then it was a means of foiling Quebec, then it was a lure for mining companies.”
The Progressive Conservatives’ sales pitch was scattershot; they threw out a whole bunch of messages and hoped something would resonate with people. It was confounding, not effective, and I wrote in the same column, “you can’t blame people for being suspicious about the government’s single-minded drive to get the deal done. Let’s face it, we’ve suffered our share of boondoggles in this province, so people are naturally leery — and wisely so — when billions of dollars of their money are at stake.”
