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Hon. Siobhan Cody, Minister for Natural Resources in the Dwight Ball Liberal Government, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Let’s just stick to the facts: Evidence 1- 8 of Government Mismanagement of the Boondoggle Muskrat Falls project and Labrador Development Company Ltd. in Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
1. SIOBHAN COADY OK WITH STURGE’S BOUGHT SILENCE "It is tough to be kind to the Ball Administration. They cause members of the public to label them “lame” and “dumb”. On what basis should they think differently?The Liberals ought to have immediately understood the rationale for Nalcor’s $900,000 parting gift to VP and CFO Derrick Sturge and stopped the move. Even a modicum of intelligence would have helped them see through his “without cause” departure, complete — the Uncle Gnarley Blog has learned — with “Confidentiality Agreement” attached.
The Agreement was key to the whole arrangement. It would provide the assurance Nalcor needed that Sturge’s lips would remain zippered about Executive complicity in Nalcor’s $12.7 billion debacle….“ Des Sullivan Uncle Gnarley blog 26 November 2019
2. Another NL’s politician grave error of judgement - leaving the British Government open to accusations of favouritism - Sir John Hope Simpson (1868-1961) was Commissioner for Natural Resources & Acting Commissioner of Justice 1934-36. He allowed Port Hope Simpson to be named after himself in 1935.
Port Hope Simpson Historic Logging Town is located on the south side of the Alexis, an excellent salmon river in southern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was initially founded in 1934 as a logging camp and was named after the English Commissioner of Natural Resources and Acting-Commissioner of Justice, Sir John Hope Simpson. This community has great natural assets nearby. A full range of quality visitor services are ready to make your stay comfortable and enjoyable. Llewelyn Pritchard MA ISBN-10: 1468014722 ISBN-13: 9781468014723
“John Hope Simpson outside Buckingham palace on the day King George V conferred his knighthood. The knighthood was announced in the King’s birthday honours list of 3 June 1925. ‘By the way, when I am Commissioner, I am "the Hon'ble Sir J.H.S.” (J.H.S. February 1934)“
3. Sir John Hope Simpson, Commissioner Natural Resources & Acting Commissioner of Justice having foolishly allowed Port Hope Simpson to be named after himself was recalled to London along with Thomas Lodge, Commissoner for Public Utilities by their political masters at the Dominions Office in London to start the long-drawn out process [1934-48] of the Newfoundland Commission of Government breaking off their relationship with John Osborn Williams, owner of the Labrador Development Company Ltd. altogether. The end of that business relationship was enabled by a Public Inquiry into the Affairs of the Company in 1945. Lodge was pilloried for the honourable publication of his book ”Dictatorship in Newfoundland “ Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd. [1939]
Thomas Lodge Commissioner of Public Utilities [left] and John Osborn Williams, owner of the Labrador Development Company Ltd.
4. Sir John Hope Simpson Acting Commissioner Justice was involved in the Newfoundland Commission of Government’s cover-up of scandal and two most likely homicides in Port Hope Simpson February 1940
Newfoundland Rangers Reports from the Port Hope Simpson were very likely removed by Simpson and since there was no Government representative on the Company’s local Board of Directors in St. John’s at the time of the two deaths on 2 February 1940, Thomas Lodge, [previously disgraced for his publication of ”Dictatorship in Newfoundland“] was urgently posted to the Board as a punishment to "keep a lid on things."Source: Steamer being loaded at Port Hope Simpson, Labrador Development Company Ltd. publicity brochure which includes factual inaccuracies
Source: John Issley, descendant of JO Williams
5. Sir John Hope Simpson was most significantly involved in his Government’s backing of the Labrador Development Company Ltd wood-cutting operations in Port Hope Simpson. He repeatedly recommended JO Williams for British Government colonial loans on the basis that sufficient houses would be built for the loggers and their families.
The Company only built 12 houses for their own officals and a large bunkhouse for the loggers.
In that regard JO Williams and Sir John Hope Simpson were complicit in deceiving British Ministers of State and civil servants in the Colonial Loan and Dominions Offices.
The money was lent to JO Williams on on Sir John Hope Simpson’s recommendation that sufficient houses should be built for the loggers and their families who also suffered from lower than promised wages.
The British Treasury officials seemed to be aware of what was going on but Williams was nevertheless allowed to proceed with his nefarious ways until a lack of people prepared to work for him and, to a lesser extent, the findings of the Public Inquiry [which were buried as far as only local publication would allow] brought his unsavourary time in Newfoundland and Labrador to an end.
Fieldwork: location of shared grave of Ethel Kate nee Cobb and John Osborn Williams, Bridgend Cemetery, South Wales [Llewelyn Pritchard]
Fieldwork: shared grave of Ethel Kate nee Cobb and John Osborn (JO) Williams, Bridgend Cemetery, South Wales [Llewelyn Pritchard]
Tombstone, Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: What was really going on behind the scenes? For the first time, de-classified official British Government papers shine new light on amongst other things, Government mis-management as knowledge hidden by an incongruous granite tombstone in Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada marked the starting point for this unique history of development of a logging settlement in southern Labrador. Llewelyn Pritchard M.A. ISBN-13: 978-1468019469 ISBN-10: 1468019465
Tombstone [Vol 5a] Smashwords
Tombstone [Vol 5b] Smashwords
Tombstone [Vol 5c] SmashwordsJohn Osborn Williams l. [known as JO] Arthur Eric Williams r. [known as Eric] eldest son of JO and died in Port Hope Simpson in highly suspicious circumstances 2 February 1940 with his infant daughter, Erica Danitoff Williams
6. Newfoundland Commission of Government’s mismanagement of John Osborn Williams, owner of the Labrador Development Company Ltd. in Port Hope Simpson
President Johannes Lampe, Nunatsiavut Government, Labrador, Canada
7i Another example of ‘Hush Money’ "We have said all along that compensation is not a form of mitigation. We advised Mr. Marshall, as well as the Premier, that offering Labrador’s three Indigenous groups a share of this $30 million would be perceived as a form of compensation, or “hush money”.
We remain adamant this money should have been used for what it was intended – to cap wetlands.” President Johannes Lampe 12 August 2019
7ii. “Auditor General’s investigation into why wetlands weren’t capped in the Muskrat Falls reservoir welcomed news. Nunatsiavut President Johannes Lampe says he’s hopeful an investigation by the Auditor General will reveal the truth behind the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s decision not to cap wetlands in the Muskrat Falls reservoir prior to impoundment.“We have always maintained that the Province had no intention whatsoever to cap the wetlands, despite setting aside up to $30 million to do so,” says President Lampe.
“All we were told is that time simply ran out; that doing the work would have had a negligible impact on methylmercury production in the reservoir and the Lake Melville ecosystem.
We have never accepted those claims.
We still maintain the work could have been done prior to impoundment, and that the claim suggesting capping would have only prevented just a two per cent rise in methylmercury is unfounded and incorrect.”
The Nunatsiavut Government and its research partners spent many years ensuring that science, traditional Inuit knowledge and the precautionary principle were at the forefront of evidence-based policy and decision making with respect to the potential downstream effects of Muskrat Falls. That peer-reviewed research, which allowed the Nunatsiavut Government to expand its understanding of methylmercury and the potential consequences on the health and wellbeing of Inuit, their culture and a way of life, was all but dismissed by Premier Dwight Ball, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nalcor Energy.
On July 17, at the insistence of the Premier, President Lampe and other Nunatsiavut Government officials met with Nalcor CEO Stan Marshall. During the meeting, Mr. Marshall maintained that time had run out on capping wetlands, although Nalcor had intended to do the work but was unable to get environmental approval from the Province.
Mr. Marshall also presented a draft Financial Contribution Agreement that would, if accepted, see $10 million transferred to the Nunatsiavut Government by Nalcor to fund social programs and activities related to the health and well-being of Labrador Inuit.
The Nunatsiavut Government refused to sign the agreement.
“We have said all along, that accommodation and compensation are not forms of mitigation.
Offering Labrador’s three Indigenous groups a share of this $30 million, in our opinion, is a form of compensation,” notes President Lampe. “That money should have been used for what it was intended – to cap wetlands. We look forward to the results of the Auditor General’s investigation. Hopefully we can finally get some real answers.” Media Contact: Bert Pomeroy Director of Communications (709) 896-8582
https://www.nunatsiavut.com 18 August 2019”8. The moral of Muskrat Falls A dodgy dam in Canada’s east Newfoundland and Labrador has a history of backing ill-conceived projects The Economist 19 August 2017
