Newscasts, columns and letters to the editor are churning out fast and furious on the heels of Premier Williams request that Andy Wells resign as Mayor of St. John's prior to acceptance of an appointment as head of the PUB.
Wells has responded that calls for his resignation are part of a campaign orchestrated by "little Liberal bloggers who are just scandal-mongers and low-life vermin." [quoted in Oilweek]
and NDPers and university types [which Noreen Golfman of the Independent picked up on by responding - what's the opposite - Tories and uneducated dolts?] Each day brings a new group supposedly orchestrating the Mayor's demise.
Just some of the coverage includes:
To hear a particularly illuminating interview with an uncharacteristically deflated Andy Wells by CBC Radio's reporter David Cochrane, click here.
Also in the news:
After Andy: Contenders ready for St. John's byelection
CBC News, Fri.Feb.15.08
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/02/15/mayoral-contenders.html
Check out The Independent (not online) for several letters and columns (see Patrick O'Flaherty's and Noreen Golfman's who, of course, can't keep the Andy game out of their ink.
The Independent has also run a few cute little cartoons.... we'll try and get some scans for the blog.
In the Western Star, Andy says he just wants peace and quiet. Sounds like a St. John's citizen who's been rattled by a certain mayor, huh?!
And while a blog in Labrador has been following surveys on the affair running in the Telegram and on VOCM, an Ottawa blog keeps up on government press releases.
The Sir Robert Bond Papers finally has something in its blog about the Premier's dictum.
Showing posts with label Andy Wells Danny Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Wells Danny Williams. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Team T-Rex: Antediluvian Andy and Dinosaur Danny
Danny Williams is fasttracking the province of Newfoundland and Labrador into a fossil history in more ways than one.
Hard to believe that we voted for a government that's basing our entire future on a fossil (as in these plants and animals are dead and they're not renewing themselves) industry. Good for one or two generations perhaps - oil spills and high probability of wrecked fisheries, ecotourism and other industries aside. But what about our grand and great-grand kids? We’ll be leaving them a far greater headache by going this T-Rex route.
Now he appoints a madman, Andy Wells, to lead the province's Public Utilities Board. A government agency that's responsible for the regulation of the electric utilities in the province.
Wells, in a recent letter to a daily newspaper rants about Global Warming, refusing to accept the international consensus that it is happening, believing it to be tactics of junk science. Premier Williams, when questioned today by reporters about Wells' position - whether it might show an inherent conflict of interest in his new post - suggested it was all just part of free speech. Well boys, he's entitled to his opinion. I like a man who isn't afraid to see both sides of the debate. The Premier expressed confidence in Wells as being 'environmentally efficient.' So are Zebra mussels in a fashion, but I doubt we'd call this a step forward.
And where does Mr. Williams stand on global warming issue? After lengthy and fancy dancing around the question, Williams suggested that the province must act cautiously. Not all the studies are in. While most scientists are in agreement about the cause of climate change, we don't have all the information. And then he plugged his government's Energy Plan (a plan that comes up so short on any real conservation and energy efficiency strategies and with a hit and run reference in support of alternative energy development it's embarrassing). But back to the PUB.
Presumably with the PUB's mandate, you'd think we'd want someone who could actually make links between global warming and energy usage, embrace ideas and innovations around energy conservation, help create a culture of efficient energy usage.
Sure, where's the (quick) money in that? Especially when you 've got legal fees to pay. ~ kl
Hard to believe that we voted for a government that's basing our entire future on a fossil (as in these plants and animals are dead and they're not renewing themselves) industry. Good for one or two generations perhaps - oil spills and high probability of wrecked fisheries, ecotourism and other industries aside. But what about our grand and great-grand kids? We’ll be leaving them a far greater headache by going this T-Rex route.
Now he appoints a madman, Andy Wells, to lead the province's Public Utilities Board. A government agency that's responsible for the regulation of the electric utilities in the province.
Wells, in a recent letter to a daily newspaper rants about Global Warming, refusing to accept the international consensus that it is happening, believing it to be tactics of junk science. Premier Williams, when questioned today by reporters about Wells' position - whether it might show an inherent conflict of interest in his new post - suggested it was all just part of free speech. Well boys, he's entitled to his opinion. I like a man who isn't afraid to see both sides of the debate. The Premier expressed confidence in Wells as being 'environmentally efficient.' So are Zebra mussels in a fashion, but I doubt we'd call this a step forward.
And where does Mr. Williams stand on global warming issue? After lengthy and fancy dancing around the question, Williams suggested that the province must act cautiously. Not all the studies are in. While most scientists are in agreement about the cause of climate change, we don't have all the information. And then he plugged his government's Energy Plan (a plan that comes up so short on any real conservation and energy efficiency strategies and with a hit and run reference in support of alternative energy development it's embarrassing). But back to the PUB.
Presumably with the PUB's mandate, you'd think we'd want someone who could actually make links between global warming and energy usage, embrace ideas and innovations around energy conservation, help create a culture of efficient energy usage.
Sure, where's the (quick) money in that? Especially when you 've got legal fees to pay. ~ kl
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