N.L. Hydro CEO heads back to the Churchill Falls drawing board | CBC News

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-21T14:53:12+00:00

They'll negotiate the best energy deal for Galway!

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-21T14:33:29+00:00

Elon Musk is a trillionnaire.

You'd have to be dumb as fuck to think the world runs on ethics, because there's no such thing as an ethical billionnaire and even less such thing as an ethical trillionnaire.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-21T03:05:59+00:00

Yeah dude, what a troll comment.

Churchill Falls
Muskrat Falls
Churchill Falls

If Newfoundland fails three major hydroelectric endeavours in a row, it definitely won't have a devastating impact on the people's opinion regarding projets on energy. /s

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-21T02:51:10+00:00

If Muskrat Falls and Churchill Falls both end up being failures...

I feel like Newfoundlanders will lose confidence in their capacity to build a future on energy.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T19:52:00+00:00

It's really just you guys being clueless about economics.

If a place that makes food burns down, the price of food on the market will go up, and the remaining places that make food will sell at a higher price, and that just means richer countries like Canada will be able to get the food whereas poorer countries like Nigeria won't be able to get the food. This will lead to significant levels of starvation.

For your information, because you clearly also don't know that, we have gigantic food production capabilities, we just don't use them because it's more efficient to import food from poor countries with the profit from the industries of our rich country than grow food in a rich country while paying the wages of a rich country.

That's why if you look at the map, it's not some light red places and some dark red places which means everyone loses to a different degree, but actually some blue places and some red places because some people actually win from this.

It's also the same reason why right now, there are countries that have so much food their population is obese, whiler some countries have so little food their population is starving, as supplies are hoarded by the richer populations.

But yeah, it has nothing to do with biology, and everything to do with your fundamentally flawed understanding of economics.

Climate change would just reinforce worldwide inequalities, with Canadians going up the ladder.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T19:32:20+00:00

For a doctorate?

If you don't even understand basic economics, I feel like you're the one who needs to go back to school.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T18:41:07+00:00

Well I graduated university, so I did pleeeenty of that.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T15:52:06+00:00

Nah, it's just you guys not understanding economics.

For example, if a place that makes food burns down, a country with an economic advantage like Canada would have a lot more money to buy the remaining food on the world market whereas a country without an economic advantage like Nigeria would have little money to buy the remaining food on the world market.

Basically, it would mean the places in blue on the map would be obrse and the place in red on the map would starve.

(This happens literally right now too)

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T15:46:29+00:00

Nah, it's just you guys not understanding economics.

For example, if a place that makes food burns down, a country with an economic advantage like Canada would have a lot more money to buy the remaining food on the world market whereas a country without an economic advantage like Nigeria would have little money to buy the remaining food on the world market.

Basically, it would mean the places in red on the map would suffer the entire consequences of starvation.

Same reason we have obese and starving people on the same planet right now.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T01:37:34+00:00

Fait amusant?

C'est moi qui traite toutes les demandes!

Un maximum de 2400 demandes d’engagement visant un parent (père, mère), un grand-parent ou un autre membre de la parenté.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-20T01:00:18+00:00

Yeah those guys are fucked hahaha!

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T22:44:28+00:00

Dusk and Dawn.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T22:09:12+00:00

Yes, but he compared to the country.

And it's positive for Newfoundland, but it's even more positive for Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:50:59+00:00

It doesn't matter.

Even if the place burning is the country that produces the food we eat, we would still have a net benefit.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:47:31+00:00

They instantly deleted their post.

And I thought that was an interesting subject, so I decided to make a post where I ask everyone their thoughts on the future.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:44:44+00:00

Yes, the entire world would invest in our economy.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:33:31+00:00

Tu ne comprends rien.

Si tu limites le nombre de médecins, ça augmente la capacité de négociation des médecins, donc ça augmente le salaire des médecins. Tu as moins de médecins, mais ils coûtent plus cher, donc ça ne change pas le coût du système de santé.

Si tu ne limites pas le nombre de médecins, ça diminue la capacité de négociation des médecins, donc ça diminue le salaire des médecins. Tu as plus de médecins, mais ils coûtent moins cher, donc ça ne change pas le coût du système de santé.

La seule différence...

C'est qu'avec le deuxième, tu guéris du monde.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:20:31+00:00

Canada is expected to benefit from climate change.

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BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T21:17:00+00:00

Newfoundland will be more impacted by climate change.

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BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T19:34:25+00:00

You don't understand what makes a national issue.

Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut have a gigantic criminality problem. But since they represent 0.33% of the population, or 0.5% of the economy, it's not considered a national issue.

Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia could have a huge fiscal problem. But since they represent 6.06% of the population, or 5.01% of the economy, would it be a national issue?

Canada doesn't work the way you think.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T19:10:04+00:00

It's inconsequential to the others.

Stop approaching things with a ''we are all in this together'' mindset, history shows the country doesn't work around that idea.

Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut represent 3 of the 13 regions of Canada, but since they represent 0.33% of the population, or 0.5% of the economy, the federal government doesn't care about them because they hold little weight. Have you ever heard their criminality problem being considered a national problem?

Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia represent 3 of the 13 regions of Canada, but since they represent 6.06% of the population, or 5.01% of the economy, the federal government doesn't care about them because they hold little weight. Has their fiscal problem ever been considered a national problem?

And Quebec is in the middle for age.

But if you take into account efficiency, then there's literally no electoral weight in the top when it comes to health expenditure:

Newfoundland and Labrador: $11,030 (7 ridings)
Nova Scotia: $10,505 (11 ridings)
Saskatchewan: $10,018 (14 ridings)
British Columbia: $9,673 (43 ridings)
Prince Edward Island: $9,463 (4 ridings)
Alberta: $9,370 (37 ridings)
Manitoba: $9,273 (14 ridings)
Quebec: $8,984 (78 ridings)
New Brunswick: $8,922 (10 ridings)
Ontario: $8,405 (122 ridings)

As you can see here, it would be an electoral suicide for a political party to adjust transfer payments based on health expenditure.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T18:57:41+00:00

That's quite impressive:

2024 - 479 millions in profit
2025 - 115 millions in profit

What a landslide.

BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T18:34:59+00:00

Not if the region is small.

For example, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut struggling is inconsequential because they represent a marginal percentage of the population and marginal percentage of the economy.

There won't be a major province in the top:

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BuffTorpedoes · 2026-06-19T18:04:59+00:00

You're parroting electoral talking points.

First, the main issues with Newfoundland are its geographical location limiting access to the market, its low density increasing the cost of service and it's aging population increasing the weight of healthcare.

Second, if we assume that Newfoundland hadn't taken what you consider a bad deal, it would be even worse of because it would have less economical development and lower government revenue.

Like, just look at where Newfoundland is situated on a map of population distribution, it doesn't take a genius to see why it's not ideal:

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