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Winston adams

- October 3, 2012 at 12:09:39

John, my suggestion, as a engineer with considerable experience in power and heating systems, was presented to the PUB in 10 page submission. You say you have read everything on this project, have you read those 10 pages? Can you give some technical reason why it is not being considered, instead of silly comments like That's a pipe dream. The jist of it is that we wasting 40 percent of our current generation through inefficient heating. Residential heating load is what is driving our forecast to increase 1 percent a year. With efficient heating we can reduce our load by 2 percent a year. Pipe dream? 2 percent reduction per year with efficiency is exactly what Vermont and many other jurisdictions are doing. They financially help homeowners to achieve this. In the USA, 8 percent add to rates fully funds the costs and saves 24 percent on the homeowner electricity bill. It is about 1/4 the cost of MF and prevents prices from increasing by 50 percent or more. If the customer pays half, a 4 percent fee would cover the costs Vermont uses 4.4 percent.. If this is a pipe dream, why are they successful at this . They verify the reductions. Google Efficiency Vermont. Shame on you John to ridicule this concerned senior citizen with your talking points.When you have read info from the Vermont site, see why their 'pipe dream' is a vision that is working and we should copy.Why? because it stabalizes our power cost at todays rares , not with a 50 percent bump. It allows holyrood to reduce oil use and polution, and is the lowest cost option by far to any new generation source.Is it a permanent solution? No. But can solve our problem for 2 decades or more. By that time, how many billion will we be in debt from MF due to no demand for that power on the island?

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William Daniels

- October 2, 2012 at 20:29:19

Well said Mr. Goodman. Well said.

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John Smith

- October 2, 2012 at 14:01:32

yet another...dis deal sum bad b'y...letter. Yet no explanation as to why? Why Mr. Goodman? Why Is it a bad deal? Can you tell me? Can you explain it to me? I have read every scrap of material I can find on this subject. I have attended the seminars by Nalcor, and Wade locke and Stephen Breauneau. I think it is a good deal for the province and an intelligent answer to our coming energy needs. I have seen our price for power increase by 70% since 1998, that matters to me, and should matter to you. if the US invades Iran, as many think they will, we will be paying 200 dollars for a barrel of oil, look out then. If we go with muskrat we will get off middle east oil, stableize our ever increasing rates, gain a much needed connection to the mainland, sell 200-400 million a year in excess power, do you have an alternative that is better than that? if so I would love to hear it.

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crista

- October 2, 2012 at 11:29:05

for any one reading this comment,THINK ABOUT THIS????what do the government be honest about????, not only the government,look at what this 70 year old man is talking about,and i am not only TALKING ABOUT HIS AGE????

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Cyril Rogers

- October 2, 2012 at 09:39:02

Mr. Goodman, it is easy to become discouraged in the face of the government's intransigence, arrogance, and stubborn refusal to openly give us information. It is also easy to be frustrated knowing that many of your friends and fellow citizens seem oblivious to the fatal flaws of this project. However, you and I and all the others who are doing our best to get the message out to people would never be content with ourselves if we didn't try, faced with a decision that we truly believe will have a major negative impact on our beloved province! We don't know that we are right...... but we know that the government is not being truthful about this project!

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