N.B.
Power's Coleson Cove is its largest generating station. It hasn't
emitted more than one million tonnes of greenhouse gases since 2007, but
will this year. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
N.B.
Power has been touting its record of reducing carbon emissions, but new
information shows the utility is burning oil, coal and petroleum coke
at more than double the rate it planned on this year and is on track to
release more than four million tonnes of greenhouse gases for the first
time in over a decade.
That would be 1.5 million tonnes more than
last year, and it appears to contradict corporate messaging that has
been highlighting its commitment to reducing emissions.
"Over the
past two decades we have not only achieved but in many instances
exceeded reduction targets established in various greenhouse gas
emission frameworks," the utility wrote in its latest annual report
released just this summer.
"Today, we are emitting 75 per cent
less carbon than we were in 2001…. We will continue to work with New
Brunswickers to be a leader in reducing our environmental footprint."
N.B.
Power used to blend petroleum coke with oil to burn at Coleson Cove.
But the storage facility at the Port of Saint John was damaged last
winter, and the utility says it has decided to run the power plant on
oil alone again. (Shane Fowler/CBC News)
But
in documents filed with the Energy and Utilities Board last week as
part of its application for an 8.9 per cent rate increase, N.B. Power
revealed its carbon emissions are headed up this year, not down, and by a
significant amount.
The increase is caused mostly by the
utility's elevated use of its giant oil-burning generating station at
Coleson Cove in Saint John that has been semi-idle for most of the last
decade.
According to filings with the EUB, the 972 megawatt
Coleson Cove complex is projected to produce 1.55 million megawatt hours
of electricity in the current fiscal year, which began on
April 1. That's more than double last year's output and six times what
the plant generated two years ago.
Burning that much oil comes
with an environmental cost, including about 1.2 million tonnes of
greenhouse gas emissions. The plant had not exceeded one million tonnes
of emissions in the previous 14 years.
N.B.
Power uses coal, oil and natural gas in its various fossil fuel
generating stations. This year greenhouse gas emissions by the utility
are projected to exceed four million tonnes for the first time in more
than a decade. (Jacques Poitras/CBC News file photo)
In
an email, the utility said the increased burning of oil to generate
electricity was necessitated by a unique set of problems and failures at
other New Brunswick generators and unusual spikes in world
commodity prices.
"Emission values vary year to year based on
system conditions and commodity and market price variations, but overall
point to a downward direction," said N.B. Power spokesperson Dominique
Couture in an email.
"NB Power is committed to achieving a net-zero electricity system by 2035."
For
four months this spring and summer, N.B. Power was without electricity
from the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station, the Bayside natural
gas generating station and the Kent Hills wind farm, New Brunswick's
largest. All were undergoing significant maintenance or repairs at the
same time.
In addition, natural gas price increases that hit
generating stations in New England made Coleson Cove's oil generators a
competitive exporter, driving up its output further.
Louise
Comeau, director of climate change and energy solutions at the
Conservation Council of New Brunswick, says N.B. Power's increased use
of fossil fuels to generate electricity is moving in the wrong
direction. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
According
to Couture, about half of the generation at Coleson Cove this year is
replacing power normally provided by the other generating facilities
that have been offline, and about half is being generated to sell
outside of New Brunswick.
In its rate application, N.B. Power says
it expects "increased electricity market export prices" will make the
use of Coleson Cove cost effective for exporting power into 2024.
That
doesn't sit well with Louise Comeau, the director of climate change and
energy solutions at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
Comeau
said N.B. Power has committed to reducing emissions, but has generating
plans that include making more than five million megawatt hours of
electricity from burning fossil fuels, both this year and next
— significantly more than in recent years.
"The plan includes
ramping up our reliance on coal, oil and gas to power Belledune, Coleson
Cove and Bayside, while reducing greenhouse gases," said Comeau.
"The math doesn't add up."
So
far carbon costs have not been a significant problem for N.B. Power at
Coleson Cove, as it operates under New Brunswick's less stringent
output-based pricing system. On 1.55 million megawatts of production at
the plant, New Brunswick carbon pricing rules for industry will exempt
1.2 million tonnes of greenhouse emissions from tax, the vast majority
of the emissions produced.
Robert
Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since
1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick
won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of
price regulation in 2006.
New
Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said carbon pricing would force N.B.
Power to collect $22-23 million more from ratepayers next year. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
What's a "little" carbon pricing between friends?
Premier
Blaine Higgs had his math right last week when he pushed back at
suggestions from N.B. Power that carbon pricing was responsible for
"very little" of the utility's proposed rate increase.
Higgs said carbon pricing would force the utility to collect $22-23 million more from ratepayers next year.
One-and-a-half to two cents of each extra dollar of the increase was "directly related" to the carbon tax, he said.
It
was a big I-told-you-so from Higgs, who has complained for years about
what federal climate policies would cost New Brunswickers.
"Those
are the policies — and I've said it before — those are the policies the
federal government put in place, and then coupled with the situation in
Europe, we have increased action and we have increased energy costs,"
he said.
Last week, acting utility CEO Lori Clark said carbon
pricing was playing only a small role in the 8.9 per cent rate increase
N.B. Power was seeking from the Energy and Utilities Board.
"Very little of that is actually attributed to the carbon pricing," Clark said.
"The
carbon pricing itself is in the millions of dollars. Most of it is the
result of the increase in fuels that we buy and trade on world
markets."
The next day, Higgs gave reporters the numbers and suggested they go back to N.B. Power.
N.B.
Power confirmed Higgs’s figures. Carbon price costs to the utility will
be $22 million in the coming year and rise to $30 million in 2025-26,
said utility spokesperson Dominique Couture. (Mike Heenan/CBC News file photo)
"Maybe
you should ask what the definition of 'very little' is. Rather than an
abstract number, ask precisely what it is. I'm telling you precisely
what it is."
N.B. Power confirmed Higgs's figures.
Carbon
price costs to the utility will be $22 million in the coming year and
rise to $30 million in 2025-26, said utility spokesperson Dominique
Couture.
She said that represents one to two per cent of the rate increases over the next three years.
Whether that amounts to a lot — or a little, or a "very little" — is in the eye of the beholder.
Higgs
suggested to reporters that it's easier for him to criticize federal
Liberal climate policies than it is for Clark, a non-partisan Crown
corporation CEO.
"I
can appreciate that I might be in a better position to make those
comments directly about federal policies, and I understand that, but
that's the reality of the impact of the carbon pricing," he said.
World events pushed up costs
Higgs
said the entire point of the federal carbon price is to make energy
more expensive — to create an incentive for consumers and industry to
burn less.
When Ottawa developed the policy, it was supposed to have a gradual, incremental effect.
Federal
Liberals had no idea that pandemic-induced inflation and a war in
Ukraine would pile even higher costs on top of its carbon tax.
Higgs acknowledged that, glancingly.
"We
are now experiencing exactly what was planned, only maybe a little
sooner because of what's going on in Europe. So this shouldn't come as
any surprise. We have federal policies that are directly pushing energy
in this direction," he said.
"We are trying to manage our way through that and trying to find transitions as we go through that."
Higgs
cut the provincial gas tax in the first year he reluctantly imposed a
carbon tax on consumers to meet federal requirements.
Since then, he has cut income taxes twice, and Finance Minister Ernie Steeves recently hinted more tax cuts are on the way.
N.B.
Power says more than $100 million of its increased costs in the coming
year — 52 per cent of the total — are due to higher fuel costs.
Jacques
Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick
since 2000. He grew up in Moncton and covered Parliament in Ottawa for
the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He has reported on every New
Brunswick election since 1995 and won awards from the Radio Television
Digital News Association, the National Newspaper Awards and Amnesty
International. He is also the author of five non-fiction books about New
Brunswick politics and history.
Acting
N.B. Power CEO Lori Clark told reporters last week that the 8.9 per
cent rate increase the utility has applied for will be applied equally
to all customers "across the board." (Ed Hunter/CBC)
New
Brunswick's six pulp and paper mills will not be made to pay the same
8.9 per cent increase for electricity next April as other customers of
N.B. Power, evidence filed with the Energy and Utilities Board shows.
Last
week the utility announced plans to raise rates 8.9 per cent "across
the board" to all customers to address its rising expenses. Acting N.B.
Power president Lori Clark said financial problems the utility faces in
the next year are significant and require every customer to contribute
equally to address them.
"The 8.9 per cent is to cover our current
costs. We are not making significant progress on debt reduction. It is
only to cover our costs," said Clark
"We decided it was in the best interests of all of our customers to put an average rate increase in place."
But
in a 200-page evidence package submitted with the application to the
EUB, the utility revealed it will be using $3.4 million of the $135.8
million higher rates are expected to generate to raise subsidies it
supplies to six New Brunswick pulp and paper mills.
Under
a mandatory provincial requirement, N.B. Power has lost more than $100
million buying electricity from pulp and paper mills at high prices and
reselling it back at a discount over the past decade. (Mike Heenan/CBC News file photo)
Part
of that will cover an expected increase in the consumption of power by
the mills next year, but some will partially shield facilities from
having to pay the full cost of increased rates.
The mills
include three owned by J.D. Irving Ltd. in east Saint John, west Saint
John and Lake Utopia, two owned by the AV group in Nackawic and
Atholville and the mill in Edmundston owned by Twin Rivers.
According
to N.B. Power's evidence, transfers to the mills will increase 30 per
cent, from an estimated $11.3 million this year to $14.7 million next
year. That will help keep the price of "firm" power supplied to the
mills from rising as much as it does for other N.B. Power customers.
The
subsidies are the responsibility of N.B. Power to finance, but the
payments are required by provincial regulation, and the increases are
not the result of business decisions made by the utility.
"It is not discretionary," N.B. Power communications officer Dominique Couture noted in an email to CBC News.
The
Irving Pulp and Paper mill overlooking the Reversing Falls in Saint
John is one of six New Brunswick facilities that has electricity costs
subsidized by N.B. Power. The group qualified for $10 million last year,
but that will jump to $14.7 million next year. (Roger Cosman/CBC News)
The
transfers occur under a ten-year-old policy the province calls the
"large industrial renewable energy purchase program" that despite its
name serves only pulp and paper mills.
The regulation requires
N.B. Power to buy green electricity the companies self-generate at
elevated prices, and then sell it back instantaneously at a discount.
Most
of the power is supplied from generators fuelled by the burning of
biomass in mill boilers, with a portion also supplied by J.D. Irving
Ltd.'s hydro electric dam in St. George.
Twin
Rivers operates a paper mill in Edmundston. It pays power rates that
are tied to a Canadian average calculated by the New Brunswick
government. The arrangement helps shield mills from rate increases that
hit other N.B. Power customers. (CBC)
This
year, N.B. Power is paying $110.54 per mega watt hour for what it buys.
It then sells it back to the mills at an average of just over $77 per
mega watt hour, according to information the Crown corporation has filed
with the EUB.
The utility is made to buy and sell at those price
differences until it has lost enough money on the transactions to
effectively subsidize the total power costs of the six mills, down to a
level the province has declared to be a national average for pulp and
paper facilities.
The transactions are mostly on paper since
electricity generated at the mills is consumed onsite and does not
actually enter N.B. Power's transmission system.
Last year the
scheme cost N.B. Power $10 million. This year that has increased an
estimated 13 per cent to $11.3 million, and next year is budgeted to
increase a further 30 per cent to $14.7 million.
According to
Couture, N.B. Power has to increase amounts it buys and sells with the
mills to accommodate both higher electricity prices and the growing
consumption of power by some of the facilities.
"Firm sales to
program participants are increasing due to electrification and other
growth, and the targeted amount of reduction is increasing, therefore
increased purchases are required in order to satisfy the regulation,"
wrote Couture.
When
he was the New Brunswick energy minister in 2012, Craig Leonard
introduced subsidies for pulp and paper mills in 2012 to help companies
he said were facing 'severe challenges.' Ten years later the department
won't say if any updated studies have been done into whether the help is
still required.
According to the
province, the subsidy program is meant to help New Brunswick mills
compete against facilities in other provinces that have access to lower
power costs, especially in Quebec and British Columbia.
"The
purpose of the Large Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase Program is to
make New Brunswick's export-oriented pulp and paper sector competitive
with their competitors in other Canadian provinces," the government
explains in an online information sheet about the program.
The
program only concerns itself with electricity costs and does not attempt
to evaluate other expenses of pulp and paper mills, such as wages, wood
costs, property taxes or other expenses, to assess if there might be
offsetting benefits to operating in New Brunswick.
The Department
of Natural Resources and Energy Development oversees the policy but it
did not respond to questions about its increasing costs last week.
Last
year, J.D. Irving Ltd. issued a statement in support of the program,
calling it "critical to the long-term viability of New Brunswick's pulp
and paper industry."
Last week, the company's vice
president of communications, Anne McInerney, said electricity costs
remain a concern. McInerney noted N.B. Power passed along large price
spikes this year in the cost of normally cheap non-firm "surplus" energy
large industrial customers often access to supplement their firm
supplies
"In some of our operations, we're paying as much as $60 million every year," wrote McInerney in an email to CBC News.
"In
fact, this summer, (non-firm) rates increased so sharply, four times
higher than normal, Irving Paper temporarily ceased operations."
Robert
Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since
1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick
won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of
price regulation in 2006.
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Ms. Kathleen Mitchell
Chief Clerk
New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
P.O. Box 5001
15 Market Square, Suite 1400
Saint John, NB E2L 4Y9
Dear Ms. Mitchell:
Re: Matter 529 - NB Power 2022 Rate Design Application – Public
Information and Engagement Plan
Further to the Board’s letter of August 24, 2022 and noted as
directive item 3, “NB Power is directed to file with the Board a copy
of interest / response data as well as details of the outreach and
follow up efforts made by NB Power.”
NB Power provides the following information resulting from the
implementation of its Public Information and Stakeholder Engagement
Plan in response to this item:
• NB Power sent more than 10,000 emails to First Nations, various
customers, and stakeholders o the emails primarily targeted customers
in the categories of GS1, GS2, small industrial, net metering, farms,
places of worship, and charities
o of those emails delivered, approximately 5,700 messages were opened
o of those opened, approximately 175 clicked through to the links
provided (either the NB Power webpage, the EUB webpage or to register
for the Information Session)
• Through the notification methods provided (newspaper advertisements,
direct email and social media posts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn)
NB Power received 65 registrations to attend the Information Session
held on September 21, 2022
• During the period September 14 to September 23, 2022, NB Power
received and responded to eight emails from members of the public to
the NBPowerRateDesign@nbpower.com email address and one email to the
First Nations ProjectConsultation@nbpower.com email address. Messages
included the following: o requests for assistance in accessing the
materials on the NBEUB website
o information on changes to power bills / which customers will be
obtaining increased versus decreased rates
o request for more information regarding the proposed rate design application
o what future changes NB Power is proposing for net metering customers
o whether the application includes a First Nations rate
o request for information (e.g., the presentation) from the virtual
Information Session
• On September 21, 2022, NB Power hosted a ‘virtual’ Information
Session on the 2022 Rate Design Application commencing at 2:00 p.m. o
although 65 registrations were received, approximately 31 people
attended the English event and 1 person attended the French event
o it included a presentation about the Rate Design Application and
information on how one could participate in the NBEUB’s regulatory
process
o the Information Session was recorded and a video of the presentation
will be posted on NB Power’s Rate Design webpage
(www.nbpower.com/ratedesign)
o 14 questions were asked and answered during the Information Session
question and answer period and one additional question was submitted
at the closing of the event
• there were no questions asked from the Francophone participant
• a Question-and-Answer document will be prepared and made available
on the NB Power rate design website
o at the conclusion of the Information Session, participants were
encouraged to complete a brief survey. A summary of the survey results
will be included in the summary report of the Public Information and
Stakeholder Engagement.
NB Power chose to host a ‘virtual’ Information Session so customers
and stakeholders from all areas of New Brunswick could participate
without having to travel.
As directed by the Board and noted as item 4 of its letter of August
24, 2022, there has been no additional interest expressed by
stakeholders to meet with NB Power on the topic of the Rate Design
Application.
The follow up activities include:
• NB Power will continue to provide information to interested
customers and stakeholders via the Rate Design website
(www.nbpower.com/ratedesign)
• Information will be provided to stakeholders during regularly
scheduled Community Liaison Committee meetings throughout the province
• NB Power will send an email to all those who registered for the
virtual Information Session to provide them with a link to the video
and Q&A document for additional information
• NB Power will continue to monitor and respond to questions received
via the NBPowerRateDesign@nbpower.com email
In addition, NB Power will file the following with the Board by
October 3, 2022:
• A copy of the Information Session presentation (slide deck)
• A copy of the Question-and-Answer document
• NB Power’s summary report of the Public Information and Stakeholder
Engagement, which will include a summary of the Information Session
survey results
Upon the filing of the information noted above, NB Power will have met
all the requirements set by the Board in its letter of August 24. NB
Power therefore respectfully requests that Matter 529 resume, with the
scheduling of the adjourned pre-hearing conference by the Board.
Should you have any questions with regard to the above, please do not
hesitate to contact the undersigned at SWaycott@nbpower.com or
506-429-2216.
Yours truly,
Stephen A. Waycott
Director, Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Affairs
NB Power
Not long after the EUB agrees to go forward without much for
interveners in the very important long delayed 357 aka 529 Matter Lori
Clark, the ACTING N.B. Power CEO goes for a lot more gold to play with
by April Fools Day without fear of opposition FROM YOUR OPPOSITION OR
YOUR ACTING public intervenor who refuses to talk to me or answer my
emails Yet YOUR legal sevices department calls me today and plays dumb
EH HIGGY???
Methinks Richard Williams, the province's ACTING public intervenor
knows all about cloaking himself in secrecy and NB Power has the wrong
dude on their side not the public's N'esy Pas?
Interesting quote EH?
"Furey said Wednesday. "So effectively, there were two experts put
forward by the same party, undisclosed to the board or other parties."
Following Furey's remarks, Richard Williams, the province's public
intervenor, weighed in, saying Marshall appeared to attempt to "cloak
himself in secrecy" so as to be seen as an independent expert simply
trying to assist the board in its deliberations.
"It seems obvious, at least to me, that Saint John Energy was hoping
to have... two seemingly unconnected experts that... were sort of
almost on the same page," Williams said."
EUB
chair Francois Beaulieu announced the board agreed with a resolution
finding that William Marshall acted unfairly by not disclosing his
company's relationships with third parties. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
New
Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board has ruled that a participant in
one of its hearings failed to properly disclose who he represented,
resulting in procedural unfairness against N.B. Power.
The ruling
stems from an EUB hearing into a request by the Crown electricity
company to increase the amount it charges companies like Saint John
Energy and Liberty Utilities to use its transmission infrastructure.
One
particularly controversial proposal is a plan to more than quadruple
what N.B. Power charges to "balance" the uneven flow of electricity
through its system caused by the up and down production of area wind
farms.
Saint John Energy and Liberty Utilities are two of eight entities that had representatives submit evidence during the hearing.
Another
participant of the hearing, William Marshall, registered to present
submissions under his consulting company, WKM Consultants Inc. on his
own behalf.
However, N.B. Power lawyer John Furey last month
accused Marshall of secretly representing undisclosed third parties,
leading to Marshall's admission that Saint John Energy and Liberty
Utilities are clients of his consulting firm. He denied he was
representing them at the hearing.
N.B.
Power lawyer John Furey told the EUB that the failure of Marshall to
disclose his relationships to third parties led to missed opportunities
to ask him relevant questions during his submission of evidence during
the hearing. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
Furey
later filed a motion asking that the Energy and Utilities Board remove
Marshall from the hearing and have his submissions scrubbed from the
record.
The parties met virtually on Wednesday for what was
supposed to be submissions before the board on the motion. However, on
board chair Francois Beaulieu's suggestion, they agreed to discuss the
matter through an in-camera alternate dispute resolution process.
The parties came to a unanimous resolution after almost two hours of discussion.
The
parties agreed on forwarding to the board an order that WKM Consultants
breached the board's rules of procedure by failing to disclose it was
retained by third parties, and that this relationship caused potential
or procedural unfairness to N.B. Power as the applicant.
The order will also see Marshall withdraw his request to be qualified as an expert witness in the hearing.
Claims of double representation
In explaining the resolution, Furey said Marshall's actions breached the board's rules in two aspects.
He
said the first is that by failing to disclose the relationship between
his company and other parties to the hearing, N.B. Power missed
opportunities to question Marshall in a way that could have revealed
relevant information.
Furey also argued that Marshall's
submissions afforded Saint John Energy "double representation" during
the hearing as the municipal power company already had its own
representative.
Public
intervener Richard Williams says Marshall's submissions could be
interpreted as providing double representation for Saint John Energy
during the EUB hearing. (Saint John Energy)
"There
was alignment to some extent of the of the positions of those two
experts," Furey said Wednesday. "So effectively, there were two experts
put forward by the same party, undisclosed to the board or other
parties."
Following Furey's remarks, Richard Williams, the
province's public intervenor, weighed in, saying Marshall appeared to
attempt to "cloak himself in secrecy" so as to be seen as an independent
expert simply trying to assist the board in its deliberations.
"It
seems obvious, at least to me, that Saint John Energy was hoping to
have... two seemingly unconnected experts that... were sort of almost on
the same page," Williams said.
After a lunch break, the board reconvened Wednesday afternoon and Beaulieu told the parties it accepted the terms.
"What
the board will be doing next is work on preparing an order and have it
translated, so that should probably be distributed to all parties in the
coming days," Beaulieu said.
The board will hear closing arguments on the hearing on Sept. 9.
Lori
Clark, acting N.B. Power CEO, said the utility has taken steps to
ensure the rate increase is as low as it can possibly be. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
N.B.
Power is asking energy regulators to approve an 8.9 per cent increase
in power rates for all its customers, at the same time New Brunswickers
are already coping with soaring housing, food and gasoline costs.
The
Crown utility says it needs the huge increase in 2023-24 just to cover
the "unprecedented challenges" caused by the spiralling cost of energy
and inflation as well as higher interest rates.
"We recognize that any rate increase is difficult for our customers," acting CEO Lori Clark told reporters.
"N.B.
Power has taken steps to ensure the rate increase is as low as it can
possibly be, while ensuring that the utility can continue to cover its
services reliably, safely and confidently for New Brunswickers now and
into the future."
The rate increase, if approved by the Energy and Utilities Board, would take effect April 1, 2023.
It's
N.B. Power's biggest rate application since 2007, when it asked for a
9.6 per cent increase. That was later lowered to 6.4 per cent, and the
board eventually set the increase at 5.9 per cent.
At
the legislature Wednesday, Premier Blaine Higgs blamed the higher costs
driving the rate hike on federal climate policies that he said are
making energy more expensive. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The
utility says energy costs for fuel purchase and electricity imports
from outside the province will increase by $102.8 million in the coming
year, and recent interest rate increases will add $31 million to the
corporation's bottom line.
The application acknowledges that even
an 8.9 per cent increase won't be enough to lower its accumulated debt
of about $5 billion or increase its equity relative to that debt.
Officials
say it may have to seek rate increases of two to 16 per cent in each of
the two following years, but because of market volatility it's not
applying for hikes for those years yet.
At the legislature
Wednesday, Premier Blaine Higgs blamed the higher costs driving the rate
hike on federal climate policies that he said are making energy more
expensive.
"This shouldn't be a surprise," he said. "The policies
that are being put on us now are causing a higher cost of energy in our
province.
"N.B. Power is reacting to that. They really don't have a choice."
Clark, however, said that only a small part of the increased costs comes from federal carbon pricing requirements.
The
utility says 52 per cent of the rate increase can be attributed to fuel
costs, but "very little of that is actually attributed to the carbon
pricing," Clark said.
"The carbon pricing itself is in the
millions of dollars. Most of it is the result of the increase in fuels
that we buy and trade on world markets."
N.B. Power cites pandemic, war in Ukraine
The
utility's application mentions carbon pricing and the transition to
renewable and low-emitting energy sources as factors in the "significant
fiscal challenges" it's facing.
But it also notes that people
"across the world" are facing some of the same challenges as New
Brunswickers, such as energy price volatility due to the war in Ukraine
and supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The
application points out rate increases over the last decade have not kept
pace with inflation or with many other provincial utilities' rates.
The
request would be for a double-digit increase if not for N.B. Power's
plan to shave $50 million from its costs, including by eliminating some
positions, officials said.
Province not likely to overrule increase
Clark
defended the decision to freeze rates in the last two years due to
COVID-19, but she would not say whether earlier rate freezes or
below-inflation increases, some of them imposed by governments, had been
a mistake.
"There's a lot of blame to attribute in the past, and
we're going to focus on going forward and ensuring the utility is
healthy for the future," she said.
Natural
Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland said he's
strongly in favour of allowing the utility to form its own rate increase
without intervention from the government. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Both Higgs and Energy Minister Mike Holland all but ruled out stepping in to overrule the EUB if it approves the rate increase.
"I'm
strongly in favour of allowing the utility to form their own rate
increase without intervention from the government, taking heart and
knowing that the EUB is there to ensure that whatever increase they come
out the other side with, it's legitimate," Holland said.
Higgs
noted the recent announcement of a "probably unprecedented" program to
provide free heat pumps to households that use electric heat and have an
income of less than $70,000.
He said the province will soon announce another program "for other forms of heating as well, to reduce that."
N.B.
Power estimates the heat pump program, which also includes insulation
upgrades, will lower a household's yearly bill by $500.
Jacques
Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick
since 2000. He grew up in Moncton and covered Parliament in Ottawa for
the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He has reported on every New
Brunswick election since 1995 and won awards from the Radio Television
Digital News Association, the National Newspaper Awards and Amnesty
International. He is also the author of five non-fiction books about New
Brunswick politics and history.
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From: "Dickie, Michael" <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 00:12:12 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Higgy Methinks Peter Hyslop can never
deny that folks need an ethical lawyer to act as our Public Intervener
N'esy Pas Lori Clark???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office from July 22 to August 2, 2022 . If you
require assitance please dial 506-658-2504.
Thank you,
Je serai en vacances le 24 juin au 2 août, 2022. Si vous avez besoin
d'assistance s.v.p. composer le 506-658-2504.
The Public Intervener will be participating in this matter.
Richard A. Williams, Q.C.
Public Intervener for the Energy Sector / l'intervenant public dans le
secteur énergétique
Office of the Public Intervener / Bureau d'intervenant public
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From: Christopher Stewart <cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:12:06 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks you must enjoy the news today about
Higgy's plan with the EUB as much as I do N'esy Pas René Legacy?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email. I am no longer with Stewart McKelvey. For
all inquiries, please contact Mathieu Poirier, Managing Partner at mpoirier@stewartmckelvey.com.
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:14:05 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks you must enjoy the news today about
Higgy's plan with the EUB as much as I do N'esy Pas René Legacy?
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From: Nancy G Rubin <nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: A little Deja Vu for Nova Scotia Power and
Emera's Irving buddies in New Brunswick
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Out of Office Notice
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NEW BRUNSWICK ENERGY and UTILITIES BOARD
COMMISSION DE L’ENERGIE ET DES SERVICES PUBLICS N.-B.
Matter 529
IN THE MATTER of an application by the New Brunswick Power
Corporation with respect to proposed changes to its rate
structure, rate classes and rate design
Held via Videoconferencing, on August 11, 2022.
Members of the Board:
Mr. Francois Beaulieu - Chairperson
Mr. John Herron - Member
Ms. Heather Black - Member
CHAIRPERSON: So I think everybody is here. So good morning, everyone.
This is a pre-hearing conference in Matter 529 relating to an
application by New Brunswick Power Corporation with respect to the
proposed changesto its rate structure, rate classes and rate design.
Il s’agit de la vidéoconférence préparatoire à l’audience dans
l’instance 529 relative à une demande de la Société d’Energie du
Nouveau-Brunswick concernant les changements proposés à sa structure
tarifaire, ses catégories tarifaires et sa conception tarifaire.
So the panel this morning consists of myself, Francois Beaulieu. I
am joined by members, Heather Black and John Herron.
So for those of you who are not familiar with the Board’s guidelines,
there is just a couple of -- and there is maybe a few individuals that
we haven’t seen before the Board before us, so I will just maybe
reiterate some of these guidelines. If you are on wi-fi sometimes you
may lose your connection so we prefer that you have a hardwire
connection if you have access to one. The use of these headsets are
preferable if you have some because it makes the job of our court
stenographer and also the simultaneous translation much easier for
these individuals. We ask you to mute your microphones if you are not
speaking and to -- so just to eliminate the background noises.
If you have any tabs that are open currently, we ask you maybe to
close these tabs. We have seen over the last two and a half years of
using this type of platform, sometimes if you don’t connect your
computer, you may lose your battery and if you lose your battery, well
you are going to be disconnected from the platform. Activate your
cameras, unmute your devices when you are required to speak. If there
are any individuals that are joining us this morning that require
simultaneous translation, if you look at the bottom of your screen,
there is an icon that talks about interpretation and you will have
access to French language translation if required.
The proceeding -- well the conference this morning will be held in English.
So Mr. Furey, I was just looking at the order and I think item number
of the order required your client to post the notice on NB Power’s
website. I am just wondering if that was done?
MR. FUREY: I am sure it was, Mr. Chair, but I am just getting formal
confirmation of that.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay, thank you.
MR. FUREY: The usual practice, Mr. Chair, is that we would have sent
an affidavit. I just don’t have that atmy fingertips, so that is what
I am looking for.
CHAIRPERSON: And I don’t have it either, and I am just wondering if
Ms. Mitchell could check it.
MR. FUREY: The Board notice is on the website. I can confirm that it
is on the website, Mr. Chair. I am just waiting for confirmation of
the affidavit.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. So Ms. Mitchell is telling me that we do have that.
MR. FUREY: Okay.
CHAIRPERSON: So thank you for that which basically confirms that it
has been done.
There is a number of parties -- there is a limited number of parties
who have applied to intervene. So I think I am going to deal first
with these intervener requests, and ask the parties if they have any
objections regarding the intervention of the various parties that have
applied.
So I am going to start first with the Canadian Manufacturers &
Exporters. So the Board has received an intervener request from this
organization and the Board hasn’t received any objections but I will
canvass the parties to see if there is any objections for the Board to
grant intervener status to the CME. Mr. Furey, any objections?
MR. FUREY: No objections, Mr. Chair. I will advise the Board that I
had a brief conversation with Mr. Marcolin this morning just to
clarify that in fact it is CME that is the intervener, and I won’t put
words in his mouth but I believe he confirmed that. And the reason I
asked the question is I was a little confused by the request for
intervention form that was filed that appeared to be Mr. Marcolin in
his personal capacity but I don’t think that is the case, so no
objection.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Ms. Rubin, any objections? You may need to
unmute yourself.
MR. RUBIN: I am sorry. No objection, thank you.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Mr. Murphy?
MR. MURPHY: No objections here, no.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Murphy, are you able to activate your video? Okay. Thank you.
MR. MURPHY: Certainly. Yeah, no objections here.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Stoll?
MR. STOLL: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: And Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: And Ms. Herrington?
MS. HERRINGTON: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. So the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters will
be granted intervener status and will be able to -- will be allowed to
intervene in this proceeding. So the next intervener request that we
have received is from JD Irving, Limited. The Board hasn’t received
any objections, however, as I stated earlier, I will ask the various
participants if they have any objections. Mr. Furey?
MR. FUREY: No objections, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: So I understand that Mr. Marcolin is not present this
morning, so is there anybody from the Canadian Manufacturers &
Exporters present today? Mr. Murphy, any objections?
MR. MURPHY: No.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Stoll?
MR. STOLL: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: No objection.
CHAIRPERSON: And Ms. Herrington?
MS. HERRINGTON: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. So JD Irving, Limited will be granted
intervener status and will be allowed to intervene in this proceeding.
The next intervener request that we have received is from Utilities
Municipal, who represents the Power Commission of the City of Saint
John, Edmundston Energy and Perth-Andover Electric Light Commission.
Again, the Board hasn’t received any objections and we will ask Mr.
Furey if he has any objections.
MR. FUREY: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Ms. Rubin?
MS. RUBIN: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Am I pronouncing your last name correctly?
MS. RUBIN: Yes, you are.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Murphy?
MR. MURPHY: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: No objection.
CHAIRPERSON: And Ms. Herrington?
MS. HERRINGTON: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. So Utilities Municipal will be 19 granted --
yeah, I think I just -- so Utilities Municipal will be granted
intervener status and will be allowed to intervene in this proceeding.
So lastly, we have the Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick. The
Board hasn’t received any objections. Mr. Furey, any objections to be
granting intervener status to this association?
MR. FUREY: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Ms. Rubin?
MS. RUBIN: No, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Stoll?
MR. STOLL: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: No objection.
CHAIRPERSON: And Ms. Herrington?
MS. HERRINGTON: No objection, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRPERSON: All right. So the Union of Municipalities of New
Brunswick will be granted intervener status in this proceeding and
will be allowed to intervene in the matter.
So that being said, I am just going to take the appearances starting
with New Brunswick Power Corporation.
MR. FUREY: Good morning, Mr. Chair, John Furey. I am accompanied this
morning by George Porter and Steve Waycott.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning, Mr. Furey. Canadian Manufacturers &
Exporters, I understand that Mr. Marcolin is not here this morning,
however, we did receive an email. The Chief Clerk, I don’t know if
that was distributed to all parties. It was? Okay. Thank you.JD
Irving, Limited?
MS. RUBIN: Nancy Rubin, Mr. Chair, and I am joined by my partner, Conor O’Neil.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you, Ms. Rubin. Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick.
MR. MURPHY: Good morning, everyone. Dan Murphy, Executive Director
with Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning, Mr. Murphy. Utilities Municipal?
MR. STOLL: Good morning, Mr. Chair, Scott Stoll.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning, Mr. Stoll. Public Intervener?
MR. WILLIAMS: Richard Williams, Acting Public Intervener.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning, Mr. Williams. And New Brunswick Energy
and Utilities Board?
MS. HERRINGTON: Good morning, Mr. Chair, Abigail Herrington and I am
joined by David Young and Véronique Otis.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning, Ms. Herrington. So normally what the Board
would do at this point in time, we would talk about a schedule and
look to establish a process. But before doing that, there are two
issues that th Board would like to deal with this morning.
One of them is the composition of the panel of this Board. And so the
Board intends to have a full panel which will be consisting of myself,
Mr. Herron, Mr. Stewart, Ms. Black and Ms. Wilson on the panel. That
being said, some parties may know or be aware is that in her former
life, Ms. Black was the Public Intervener of the Province of New
Brunswick for the energy sector and Mr. Stewart was in Ms. Rubin’s
place, I guess, as counsel for JD Irving, Limited.
And the question that the Board has for the parties that are present
this morning is the Board doesn’t see any conflict of interest of
having these two members sitting on the panel of this new application.
As we all know, Ms. Black and Mr. Stewart did participate in Matter
357 which was the matter that laid the foundation to start this
proceeding or this application that was filed by NB Power. Matter 357
has been closed or has been concluded.
And so the Board is wondering if any of the parties have any
objections to having Member Black and Member Stewart as members in
this panel that will be hearing this application by NB Power. And I
will start with Mr. Furey.
And maybe the parties may wish to think about it and maybe to address
this issue in a letter to the Board. However, that being said, I will
just maybe start a conversation on it if Mr. Furey has -- we will hear
Mr. Furey.
MR. FUREY: Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, NB Power has no objection. In Ms.
Black’s case, Ms. Black as Public Intervener had a mandate to
represent the public interest, and I think she is doing so in a
different role now. And in both Ms. Black and Mr. Stewart’s case, I
have no concern whatsoever that either would not be able to put aside
their previous roles and make decisions in the public interest today.
So no objection
.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Ms. Rubin?
MS. RUBIN: Thank you, Mr. Chair. While I don’t have experience before
this particular Board, my experience in Nova Scotia was the former
counsel for Nova Scotia Power was appointed to the Nova Scotia Utility
and Review Board, immediately began to sit and rose to become the
Chair in that role. He did an exceptional job and I’m confident that
both Ms. Black and Mr. Stewart will be able to bring their past
experience and do a job leaving aside their prior roles as well. So I
have no objection.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Mr. Murphy?
MR. MURPHY: No objections.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Mr. Stoll?
MR. STOLL: No objections. I’m quite confident both Ms. Black and Mr.
Stewart understand their obligations and will be able to discharge
them professionally in this proceeding.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: No objection.
CHAIRPERSON: All right. Thank you. Now the second issue that the Board
would like to deal with this morning is regarding the lack of
intervention in the proceeding based on the intervener requests and
the intervener statuses that the Board has just confirmed.
And I was reading -- well the full Panel did meet this week to discuss
this issue and about the lack of representation of certain classes of
customers that will lay the foundation of other rate design
applications in the future.
So -- and the concern that we have is we -- and it was stated in the
letter that we sent out this week about hearing parties on the issue
of should this process maybe -- I’m going to use a word -- to slow the
process and to maybe educate a little bit more the impact of what this
application may have on the ratepayers.
And reviewing the decision that was rendered by the Board in Matter
357, it was quite clear that in the Board’s view, that under
represented customers, i.e., the residential customers and churches
and farms, should be -- or hopefully would be represented in this
class -- or in this application.
So the Board is wondering if it would be appropriate, before talking
about any schedules, before starting the process, if the applicant
should maybe do some sort of a public awareness campaign about what
the impact of this application may have on certain rate classes.
The Board does note that some of the industrial rate classes are
represented in this application. However, upon reading the evidence of
the utility this morning, I did notice that farms, churches,
charitable organizations may be impacted by the decision that the
Board may be rendering in this application.
And this particular group of customer classes is not represented in
this application. So I’m wondering if -- I’ll be hearing from Mr.
Furey what his thoughts are of maybe putting a pause to the
application and maybe having a discussion of if it would be
appropriate in this matter to maybe have a public education program
put in place in order to inform ratepayers about the application and
about the significance of the application that may have -- that this
application may have in the present and in the future.
So, Mr. Furey?
MR. FUREY: Thank you, Mr. Chair. So let me say firstly that NB Power
is supportive of some form of public engagement. In fact, NB Power has
already tentatively begun to plan exactly that.
I would say that NB Power is open to that being a Board sponsored
process under the Rules -- under Rule 3.4 in particular. But we will
leave that in the discretion of the Board.
NB Power is prepared to do some public engagement of its own and
participate simultaneously in a Board sponsored process.
So there is no question about that. The intention of NB Power with
respect to its current plans, which are tentative pending the outcome
of this pre-hearing conference and the Board’s decision, I wouldn’t
quite describe them as technical conferences, but the intent is that
there would be public sessions where there would be an explanation of
the application, identify potential impacts on particular customer
groups, and the Chair has identified some of them this morning. And
obtain both their feedback and also answer any questions that those
representatives of those various customer groups may have, or members
of those customer groups may have.
We anticipate that it would be a combination of in person meetings and
virtual sessions, to ensure that we have a wide geographic ability
within the province for customers to participate, and there would be
the use of other tools, direct communications. The purpose being that
NB Power would encourage those customers to participate in the
proceeding, whether through letters of comment as permitted by the
Rules, or through the public forum in which case feedback would be
provided to the Board by NB Power.
And again I stress that NB Power does not see that as exclusive. If
the Board wished to conduct a public forum, then NB Power would be
supportive of that and 4 would participate in it in any way that the
Board saw fit.
So the only issue that I hadn’t quite anticipated, Mr. Chair, is the
issue of potential delay of the schedule here. I would like to consult
with my client briefly on that. But I can do that later or I can do it
now. It’s -- I’ll leave it in your hands.
CHAIRPERSON: So maybe on the issue of the schedule, Mr. Furey, it
would probably be appropriate at one point in time, once the Board
hears all the submissions of the parties regarding questions that we
are asking, that maybe the parties convene in a closed session in
order to discuss this issue, or these issues. And maybe as a result of
the conversation that the parties may have in this discussion, that
this will resolve that issue that you just talked about.
MR. FUREY: Certainly. Thank you.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Ms. Rubin, any thoughts on the question that
the Board was asking?
MS. RUBIN: I have no views on whether a delay is necessary or not. I
support the initiatives outlined by Mr. Furey.
I did notice that in the proposed filing schedule there is no
opportunities for public letters of comment, and maybe that’s implicit
and can be done at any time. But that may be -- if it is not a routine
practice, that may be an opportunity for the public to submit their
views directly.
The other thing, in terms of the communications, I know in some other
jurisdictions there is active participation by low income advocacy
groups, and I was looking in New Brunswick and I confess, I don’t have
sufficient familiarity as to who could be contacted directly to
solicit interest, but I see there is the New Brunswick Common Front
for Social Justice, who takes public advocacy positions and they may
certainly have views on behalf of low income residential consumers.
And perhaps there is some other list, whether it’s Legal Aid New
Brunswick or some others, they could be contacted directly rather than
just general communications by NB Power.
CHAIRPERSON: So if we -- if that is the case, Ms. Rubin, is it
premature at this point in time to start talking about implementing a
schedule if these individuals haven’t been contacted -- or these
groups haven’t been contacted?
MS. RUBIN: It may be, if this is the first outreach and their first
awareness of it. I guess the length of the delay period -- I don’t see
it as being that long because we are not that far past the point of
filing the application. But whether it’s two weeks or a month or
something, I don’t think it would be any more than that.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Murphy, any thoughts?
MR. MURPHY: Certainly support the concept of a public relations
campaign. I know for a lot of our members in the municipal sector
certainly have an interest in this hearing. So I think more work on
that front would be good.
In terms of a delay, I don’t have a sort of position one way or
another. I like the idea of reaching out to some other groups. And we
could also reach out to the social inclusion networks too. They might
have a sense of who may want to comment on this
But no, I think more perspectives are good, but we don’t necessarily
have a position on a delay at this time.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Stoll?
MR. STOLL: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess a couple points. We do
encourage a broader participant group. I think particularly in this
type of hearing where rate design -- and I hate to use the term --
winners and losers will result. I think that necessitates that we get
as broad a perspective as possible.
A couple of comments on that. I think we have to understand that what
process we allow for these people to come in, we have to be respectful
of the commitment that it requires from their position.
Also I think given the nature of this type of proceeding, it’s
important that their contributions or comments be on the record, so
that they form part of what everybody is seeing. And I think probably
we -- their participation would be encouraged throughout the process,
but I think that the earlier we can have that participation the better
in the process.
And I think it necessarily would need probably a slight delay. I don’t
want to hold up the hearing indefinitely, but I think a small period
of time to maybe outreach to some particular groups, either
representing some of the agricultural industries or the
charitable organizations or the -- certain residential customers,
certainly we have a different regime where interveners have funding
that’s not available in New Brunswick.
So it does create an extra strain or an inhibiting factor for some of
these groups to participate.
So I think we -- any process we have to be conscious of that, and
conscious of trying to obtain the broadest perspective possible and
making it part of the public record at the end of the day so people
understand where we are going and why we are going there.
Those are my comments.
CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Thank you, sir. Mr. Williams?
MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you. I agree with what the Board is suggesting.
The cast of characters on here seems fairly limited and it would be --
it would be good if it could be dealt with expeditiously, but I do
agree that it would be preferable to have some of the rate groups on
the -- you know, on the less than industrial scale involved in this
process. And so I’m in favour of anything that the Board suggests in
that respect.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Ms. Herrington?
MS. HERRINGTON: The Board staff don’t have any comments, Mr. Chair. We
are generally supportive of the initiatives that have been proposed to
the extent that they can increase participation in the process.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. So I appreciate the comments from all the
parties. I think at this point I’m suggesting maybe that the parties
convene individually from having the Board members present, and if
there is any media present, to maybe having a discussion on what
should be the step forward prior to maybe scheduling or talking about
any schedules.
So I’m going to ask Ms. Mitchell to put myself, Mr. Herron and Ms.
Black and any individuals that are not have been listed as either the
applicant or the interveners, into a waiting room. And I’ll ask Ms.
Mitchell to inform us if the parties have either come to an agreement
on how we should proceed or how this matter should be moving forward
at this point in time.
(Recess)
CHAIRPERSON: So Mr. Furey, I understand that the parties have had a
discussion and there is an agreement on how to proceed or how to move
this matter forward.
MR. FUREY: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. NB Power has agreed to provide a
written summary of the public information and engagement process that
it proposes to conduct over the next approximately six weeks, and to
provide that to the Board and parties by the end of the day on Monday.
And I understand that parties have agreed that they would file any
additional comments or suggestions or proposed amendments to that
process by the end of the day on Wednesday. And then the Board would
issue direction to NB Power to either implement that proposal or
somehow alter it in any respect that was appropriate for the Board.
And NB Power would then conduct that public information and engagement
process, and we would come back for a continuation of this pre-hearing
conference, I think we suggested at some point in the week of the 26th
of September, but that’s obviously subject to the Board’s schedule.
CHAIRPERSON: All right. So first of all I would like to thank the
parties for coming up with this proposal, and even though there is a
slight delay, like my colleague, Mr. Herron, told me when we were
discussing a few minutes ago, I think hopefully this slight delay will
improve the process that we will be hearing the application and
hopefully this slight delay will be more inclusive in order to have a
broader group of individuals or participants in the hearing.
So we look forward for the comments by the parties and the proposal on
Monday, and this matter will resume and review the proposal and
comments next week, and we will issue the necessary order to NB Power.
So thank you all. And I wish you a good day and this matter is
adjourned. Thank you.
MR. FUREY: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
(Adjourned)
Certified to be a true transcript of the proceedings of 11 this
hearing as recorded by me, to the best of my ability.
Henneberry Reporting Service
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From: Britt Dysart <bdysart@stewartmckelvey.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: A little Deja Vu for Nova Scotia Power and
Emera's Irving buddies in New Brunswick
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I am out of the office in meetings much of today, and will not have
regular access to my email or voicemail during this time. Please
contact my assistant,Sonja at 506-443-9942 and she will direct your
inquiry. Otherwise, I will contact you upon my return .
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:23 +0000
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Well who gets to oversee the malicious actions of the Attorney General?
Methinks it must be mean old me. Its a dirty job but soembody has to
do it. What say you? Please check the pdf file hereto attached and
argue me in writing if ya dare.
The Chaisson lawyer is a partner in McInnes and Cooper thus he and his
partners have had Hard Copy of some of my concerns about illegal
probate actions practiced against the courts by lawyers for many
years. According to the CROWN Corp known as the CBC(They would not
conceal awful truths would they?) Chaisson dismissed Hughes'
suggestion that the Southern Poverty Law Centre is pulling strings as
"a conspiracy theory." "Where is the evidence? You can't just come to
court and throw wild accusations like that without any shred of evidence,"
said Chiasson.
Well trust that I have LOTS of evidence of conspiriacies practiced by
the Southern Poverty Law Center and legions of others that Chaisson
and his fellow lawyers should have disclosed to John Hughes by now.
Perhaps John Hughes should ignore his golfing buddies and finally call
me back. He and I should bury the hachet and he should simply quit
bullshitting me and ask me nicely for an affidavit and invite me to
court on September 10th. The amount being argued within the McCorkell
estate is chump change to me. However the Free Speech issues and the
right to privacy without state intervening on behalf of unethicial
"civil rights" groups certainly is not.
The awful truth is the Attorney General is an elected public official.
The Blais lawyer from Moncton was appointed by her mindless party
leader David Alward to uphold the law not to break it for the benefit
of greedy Yankees. The self appointed Jewish Groups who claim to be
the gusrfians of our civil rights are no such thing that task belongs
to our Justice officials. The Jewish groups should have had no
standing in the mcCorkell matter whatsoever.Hell even Canadian Jewish
lawyers such as Ezzy Baby Levant and Karen Selick agreed with me very
publicly. To watch a corrupt Attorney General and her mindless minions
side with a couple of sneaky Yankee lawyers was truly comical indeed
but to see the Court of the Queen's Bench allow the nonsense of it all
was way beyond ridiculous.
How will the ordinary folk of New Brunswick have any idea what joke
the province may become over this frivolous action if the CBC and
their media buddies do not duly inform them of all sides of the matter
instead of merely slandering people. How many taxpayers dollars have
been spent already on secretive ex RCMP private investigators and the
less that useles litigation team? It had not escaped my notice that
many bloggers etc are not so easily fooled by the Corporate Media. Try
Googling mccorkell new brunswick sometime to see how much of a joke
Maritimers have already become no thanks to Attorney General Blais and
her minions.
Moncton's former city solicitor John Hughes should not have ignored me
years ago so I am not surprised that he ignored once again recently.
The amount of money he wants to argue before the Supreme Court is the
smallest that I have ever seen.
Trust that the pdf file hereto attached proves that I could make
Hughes a very wealthy man if he were even remotely ethical and his
friend Attorney General Blais and her boss Stephen Harper know it.
Its just like I hinted in an email to the Yankee lawyer/preacher
Scotty Baby Lively who is also battling the same SPLC dudes that I
published early this morning before I heard the news today. In my
humble opinion Mr Streed should use his rights in the US of A and sue
everyone of the nastyCanadian bastards ASAP in a US District Court
pursuant to US Title 42 Section 1982. If they wish to attack him he
should at least get to pick the turf.
Neo-Nazi's will dispute heads to court in September
Robert McCorkill's sister is fighting against $250K estate being left to National Alliance
CBC News ·
The
legal dispute over a New Brunswick man's estimated $250,000 estate
being left to an American neo-Nazi group will be heard in September.
The Court of Queen's Bench case could set precedent in Canada, according to one of the lawyers involved. It is expected to focus on the limits of free speech.
Robert
McCorkill, who also went by McCorkell, left his valuable collection of
coins, artifacts and investments to the National Alliance when he died
in Saint John nine years ago, but the estate remains unsettled.
Earlier
this month, his estranged sister Isabelle McCorkill, of Ottawa,
received a temporary injunction blocking disbursement of the estate to
the white supremacist group, which is based in West Virginia, or any
transfer out of New Brunswick.
Marc-Antoine Chiasson, her lawyer,
said the will should be null and void because it violates Canadian
policy and is against the law because it would be financing a hate
group.
On Wednesday, a lawyer representing McCorkill's
executor, Fred Streed, who represents the National Alliance's
interests, asked to cross-examine the sister to determine if she is a
genuine plaintiff or someone simply standing in for the civil rights
group, the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
"She has no right as an heir," argued John Hughes.
"She was not named in the will, she was unknown to the respondent [Streed]. It was a complete surprise," Hughes said.
He wanted to ask Isabelle McCorkill why she waited nine years to get involved and who is paying her legal expenses.
Hughes contends the Southern Poverty Law Centre is behind the whole matter and recruited her.
This
is "a skillful operation by people who have done this many times, not
only to bankrupt their opponents, but to enrich their own organization,"
he said.
But her lawyer dismissed Hughes's suggestion that the Southern Poverty Law Centre is pulling strings as "a conspiracy theory."
"Where
is the evidence? You can't just come to court and throw wild
accusations like that without any shred of evidence," said Chiasson.
How his client pays her legal bills is a matter of client-attorney privilege, he said.
Judge ruled against cross-examination
Justice Peter Glennie ruled against allowing the cross-examination.
"Cross examination under these circumstances should not become an application for discovery," he said.
The judge also ruled the temporary injunction should continue until the hearing on Sept. 10.
Meanwhile,
another hearing will be held before that to decide whether to allow the
New Brunswick government, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith
and the Centre for Israel and Jewish affairs intervener status.
Anti-racism
groups want to try to stop the National Alliance from receiving the
valuables, fearing they could be sold and help spark a rebirth of the
neo-Nazi group that has been in decline since its founder died more than
a decade ago.
A date for that hearing has not yet been set.
Promotes 'racial cleansing'
A 24-hour message line for the National Alliance lays out the group's policies.
"We favour a free, strong, proud, white America," it states.
The
group's lawyer says it represents the "interests of freedom of speech"
and exists within the limits of free expression in the United States. It
is not breaking any laws and should be allowed to receive the money,
said Hughes.
The case, he said, is based on "the rhetoric of hysteria."
Isabelle McCorkill's lawyer said he fully expects free speech will be one the main arguments he will face at the hearing.
But
he contends hate speech is apparent in the group's literature,
particularly a document that talks about carving out a "white living
space," and the "racial cleansing of the land."
"I can't see any
good coming out of this," said Chiasson, referring to the estate going
to the National Alliance. "Only evil would come from that."
McCorkill's
collection includes: Greek and Roman coins that are thousands of years
old, an ancient Iranian sword, Neolithic arrowheads and an Egyptian
stone tablet from the 13th Dynasty, according to a 55-page appraiser's
report from August 2010.
Parts of the collection have been exhibited in Saskatoon and Ottawa.
Just in case folks think I don't understand the scene laid out above
pehaps they should checkout a letter an evil Special Agent of the US
Treasury Dept wrote me long ago.
Or find some fun in reading illegal ex parte documents filed by the US
Attorney in Beantown in order to try to protect his beloved Cardinal
Bernard Francis Law's evil arse.
They begin around page 100 of this file.
(Wanna see more? Trust that I have lots more All ya gotta do is surf the web)
How about how I used US Title 42 to defend my dumb arse agains the
Janet Reno's pal the VERY VERY EVIL Yankee lesbian Judge Sidney Hanlon
in 2004? Everything Hanlon did against me was ex parte and VERY
ILLEGAL.
US CodeNotesUpdatesAuthorities (CFR)Current through Pub. L. 113-21.
(See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every
State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to
inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal
property.
Source
(R.S. § 1978.)
Codification
R.S. § 1978 derived from act Apr. 9, 1866, ch. 31, § 1,14 Stat. 27.
Section was formerly classified to section 42 of Title 8, Aliens and
Nationality.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
THE TRIAL COURT
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AFFIDAVIT OF DAVID R. AMOS
Now comes, David R. Amos, a Citizen of Canada and a Legal
Permanent Resident of the USA and asserts his Constitutional Rights
pursuant to Title 42 Sections 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1986 of the Federal
Code and freely swears under the penalties of perjury that the
following statements are true and to the best of his knowledge.
United States Attorney General Janet Reno came to Boston today to
announce the opening of the new Dorchester District Court Domestic
Violence Session, under a Department of Justice grant given to Boston.
The Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative (JOD) grant is for $7
million over five years, contingent on continued Congressional
appropriations.
Judge Sydney Hanlon, presiding judge of the Dorchester District Court,
will run the new domestic violence session. The domestic violence
court session will conduct arraignments, bail hearings, probation
surrenders, and probation reviews. It will also hear all ex parte and
contested civil restraining orders.
BTW lots of people hate lots of other people it is not illegal in most
places that are blessed with common sense. However with the right to
Free Speech come responsibility. Freedom has its limits in a
purportedly "Just" Society. Free Speech does not give one the licence
to injure others with your mouth or pen.
R. v. Lucas, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 439 is the leading Supreme Court of
Canada decision on defamatory libel. The Court held that the freedom
of expression under Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms is subject to the "reasonable limits prescribed by law" set
out in Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Hell some offences come with quite a price tag in the British
Commonwealth. For instance libel and hate speech are illegal under the
Canadian Criminal Code Check Sections 300 and 319 if you don't believe
mean old me.
For instance the Jewish lawyer Ezzy Baby Levant can have fun preaching
hate on Corporate TV against fools as Arty Topham and legions of
mindless anarchists but just like all of you Ezzy dares not to even
breathe my name over the public airwaves if he wishes to keep his job.
This is a comical video.
The wacko Arthur Topham that Ezzy Bay speaks of quite simply does not
know when to shut up. Even while he is being prosecuted under Section
319 and after his strange lawyer Dougy Christie has shit the bed Arty
baby continues to hang himself with his own words. Look what the evil
bastard publishes about a Jewish lady lawyer just because he did not
like her opinion of Southern Poverty Law Center's nasty actions
against the McCorkell estate.
However if you think Arty Topham and his Hitler worshipers are bad,
trust that you ain't seen nothing yet. Check out Ezzy Levant's # 1 fan
and fellow zionist. Ask yourself howcome Mr Baconfat can get away with
publishing such evil things about the Canadian Human Rights
Commissioners and many others for years?
Friday, October 9, 2009
ByronPrior...euthenasia, lobotomy?
As I research the Byron Prior story it seems like a tragedy that could
only happen in Newfoundland . Byron Prior's siblings has been abused
by generations of his own parents. Such abuse tolerated and enabled by
Bryron Prior's father, and by the entire community from which he is
from. That is the crime here. It would surprise me to find out that
either Byron or one of his siblings is or was the product of incest.
Arthur Topham has writen this about the Byron Prior case with the
assistance and consent of Audrey Prior, Byron Prior's wife.
On March 28th of this year (2009) I received a short email from Byron
Prior, an associate out in Newfoundland, who I have been in email
contact with for a number of years. His case, as explained in the
websites listed in his email below, is most likely one of the best
examples of the power of the provincial and federal courts, aided and
abetted by a complicit media, to shield themselves and their political
cohorts from the scrutiny of public investigation. Byron’s case is a
classic, albeit a relatively unknown one, that epitomizes the level of
corruption which exists within Canada’s politically biased judicial
system and how that system becomes criminal itself in its overt and
covert methodologies used to shield the perpetrators of sexual abuse.
When people of power are accused of wrongdoing and there is good
reason for inquiries to be held then those in such positions exploit
their influence for their own self-serving benefit and to the
detriment of our justice system as a whole.
Byron Prior’s case, like my own fight with B’nai Brith Canada and the
Canadian Human Rights Commission, is purposely kept hidden in the
twilight and shadows constructed by the Zionist-controlled mainstream
media. Our situations are quite different in terms of the underlying
reasons for the persecutions we face but the fact that the system
itself is abusing us both is beyond question. In my case the “crime”
is speaking the truth as I see it about the Rothschild Zionist global
conspiracy.
In Byron’s case the circumstances are far beyond anything so
threatening as the intellectual attack that I am being subjected to by
the state and its Zionist manipulators. His story is a macabre horror
story compared to my own, the details of which would provide ample
subject matter for a full length documentary. The reaction, by
Canada’s legal system, to his noble and sincere efforts to gain both
recognition and justice are frightening and ominous.
We have heard Dean Roger Ray tell everyone that freemasons raped Byron
Prior's sister. He has told us the "cover-up"has been perpertrated, by
freemasons, Jesuits, and the illuminati. Now conspiracy retard Arthur
Topham claims kinship with Byron Prior and the involvment of the
"State" and the "Zionists" in his "case" and the Byron Prior tragedy.
Last evening over drinks at "a faculty club" at the U of A, I asked
two members to the Faculty of Law if they knew anything of Mr. Priors
case. Both relied NOTHING other than two "Charter issues" that have
recently dealt with by the Newfoundland Supreme Court . Indeed he was
exculpated and acquitted. None ofus are sure exactly why
Mr.Prior's sexual assault allegations were fully investigated and that
there was NOT enough evidence to lay charges...especially considering
the time that has elapsed. As I understand it ...there is NO legal
means given the lack of evidence to compel Mr. Hickman to provide a
DNA sample. In fact his CharterRights preclude that. That begs the
question are Mr. Priors Charter Rights more important or relevant than
Mr. Hickman's?
So what is justice here? Mr. Hickman ought not be compelled to provide
body samples merely because Byron prior accuses his of something
without evidece, reseasonable or probable cause.There appears to be NO
FACTS in this matter, no evidence to compel further proceedings.
So now with Byron Priors ecouragement the conspiracy constitency has
embraced his cause. The Zionists are to blame, the freemasons raped
his sister ad nauseum...whereas the only conspiracy I see.....is in
Byron Prior's community and his family...they have alll covered up
this disgusting, inhuman incestuous abuse for generations .
Byron Prior is obviously insane ..after all this who wouldn't be...he
should provide the evidence of his allegations to compel a DNA sample
...simply accept the fact there are no legal grounds to forciably
obtain one.
Byron Prior has made a bargain with the devil embracing conspiracy
retards.....he should just put in a deep dark hole.
Truth matters
Defamation law that ignores truth ruled unconstitutional
Peter Walsh - The Telegram (St. John's, NFLD)
Tuesday, May 6
The Supreme Court of Newfoundland has ruled a law that could send
someone to prison for defamation is unconstitutional.
Justice Lois Hoegg made the decision Friday. Her ruling also struck
down a criminal case by Crown prosecutors against Byron Prior of Grand
Bank.
Prior claims that in 1966, a justice official in the province raped
and impregnated one of his relatives. Crown attorneys say Prior wore
placards and distributed flyers which published the allegations.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary interviewed Prior's relative in
2004 and in 2007, but the alleged victim denied she had been sexually
assaulted or that she even knew the person Prior said had attacked
her.
Crown prosecutors tried to convict Prior of defamation under Section
301 of the Criminal Code, which says "everyone who publishes a
defamatory libel is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years."
The problem is, Hoegg said, the Crown couldn't prove that Prior was
knowingly spreading lies.
"I find that it is not justified, in our free and democratic society,
for the Crown to use the heavy hammer of the criminal law against a
subject for publishing defamatory libel when the Crown is not able to
show that the subject knows that his statements are false.
"The expression of truthful, unpopular or even false statements
deserve protection unless expressed in a violent manner," wrote Hoegg.
Hoegg said if the Crown could prove Prior knowingly published
defamatory libel, it would have charged him under a different section
of the criminal code that says "everyone who publishes a defamatory
libel that he knows is false is guilty of an indictable offence and
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years."
That law has withheld court challenges. Section 301 - the law which
does not mention the matter of truth - has been struck down as
unconstitutional by three other superior courts in Canada.
"The sections catch different types of offender. To me, it naturally
follows that their purpose or objectives must be different," wrote
Hoegg. "I then determined that the objective (of Section 301) was not
so pressing and important as to override freedom of expression. The
section is offensive to modern day notions of justice."
The decision only applies to criminal applications of defamation law.
Hoegg said Prior could possibly be sued in civil court over his
allegations.
Three years ago, a federal politician filed a statement of claim in
the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador to have a website that
contained allegations about him by Prior removed. In the statement,
the politician said a website posted by Prior accuses him and other
prominent Newfoundlanders of wrongdoing.
A website containing the allegations is still active ( see 1). Prior
claims to be a victim of physical and sexual abuse.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
TRIAL DIVISION
BETWEEN:
WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF
AND:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT
AND BETWEEN:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT/PLAINTIFF
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF/FIRST DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: T. ALEX HICKMAN SECOND DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: THOMAS MARSHALL THIRD DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: DANNY WILLIAMS FOURTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: EDWARD M. ROBERTS FIFTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: JOHN CROSBIE SIXTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: PATTERSON PALMER SEVENTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
SUMMARY OF CURRENT DOCUMENT
Court File Number(s):2005 01 T 0010
Date of Filing of Document: 25 January 2005
Name of Filing Party or Person: Stephen J. May
Application to which Document being filed relates: Amended
Application of the Plaintiff/Defendant by Counterclaim to maintain an
Order
restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of
Defence, strike the Counterclaim in it's entirety, and to refer this
proceeding to case management.
Statement of purpose in filing: To maintain an Order restricting
publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike
the Counterclaim in its entirety and refer this proceeding to case
management.
A F F I D A V I T
I, Stephen J. May, of the City of St. John's, in the Province of
Newfoundland and Labrador, Barrister and Solicitor, make oath and
say as follows:
THAT I am a Partner in the St. John's office of PATTERSON PALMER
solicitors for William Matthews, the Member of Parliament for
Random-Burin-St. George's in the Parliament of Canada.
THAT Mr. Matthews originally retained Mr. Edward Roberts, Q.C. on
or about 30 April 2002 after Mr. Byron Prior, the Defendant/Plaintiff
by
Counterclaim, had made allegations against Mr. Matthews in a
publication called "My Inheritance - The truth - Not Fiction: A Town
with a Secret". In that publication, the allegation was made that Mr.
Matthews had had sex with a girl who had been prostituted by her
mother. That girl was alleged to have been Mr. Prior's sister.
THAT upon being retained, Mr. Edward Roberts wrote a letter to Mr.
Prior. That letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit "1" to my
Affidavit.
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts' letter to Mr. Prior, Mr. Roberts
received a 1 May 2002 e-mail from Mr. Prior. That e-mail is attached
as Exhibit "2".
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts receipt of the e-mail, Mr. Prior
swore an Affidavit acknowledging that what had been said in that
publication was false. That Affidavit is attached as Exhibit "3" to my
Affidavit.
Following Mr. Roberts' receipt of that Affidavit, Mr. Matthews
advised that he was satisfied not to pursue the matter any further and
our firm closed our file.
THAT on or about 25 October 2004, I was retained by Mr. Matthews
following his gaining knowledge that a web site, made a series of
allegations against him relating to my having sex with a girl of
approximately 12 years old through to an approximate age of 15 years
old. It also accused him of being a father of one of her children and
accused him of having raped that girl. Upon checking the web site I
saw that Byron Prior, the Defendant, had been identified as the
author of the material on the site.
THAT Mr. Matthews instructed me to write Mr. Prior, to remind him of
the fact that the allegations had been admitted to being false
through a 16 May 2002 Affidavit to advise him of Mr. Matthews'
intentions to commence legal proceedings if the comments were not
removed from the web site. A copy of my letter to Mr. Prior is
attached as Exhibit "4" to this Affidavit.
THAT I attach as Exhibit "5" a transcript from a 5 November 2004
voicemail left by David Amos, identified in the voicemail as a
friend of Mr. Prior.
THAT I attach as Exhibit "6" a portion of a 6 November 2004 e-mail
from Mr. Amos.
THAT until I received his voicemail and e-mail, I had never heard
of Mr. Amos.
THAT Mr. Amos has continued to send me e-mail since his 5 November
e-mail. Including his 6 November 2004 e-mail, I have received a
total of 15 e-mails as of 23 January 2005. All do not address Mr.
Matthews' claim or my involvement as Mr. Matthews' solicitor. I attach
as Exhibit "7" a portion of a 12 January 2005 e-mail that Mr. Amos
sent to me but originally came to my attention through Ms. Lois Skanes
whose firm had received a copy. This e-mail followed the service of
the Statement of Claim on 11 January 2005 on Mr. Prior. I also attach
as Exhibit "8" a copy of a 19 January 2005 e-mail from Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit "9" a copy of a 22 November 2004 letter
addressed to me from Edward Roberts, the Lieutenant Governor of
Newfoundland and Labrador covering a 2 September 2004 letter from Mr.
Amos addressed to John Crosbie, Edward Roberts, in his capacity as
Lieutenant Governor, Danny Williams, in his capacity as Premier of
Newfoundland and Labrador, and Brian F. Furey, President of the Law
Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. I requested a copy of this
letter from Government House after asking Mr. Roberts if he had
received any correspondence from Mr. Amos during his previous
representation of Mr. Matthews. He advised me that he received a
letter since becoming Lieutenant Governor, portions of which involved
his representation of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Roberts' letter also covered
his reply to Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit "10" an e-mail from Mr. Amos received on
Sunday, 23 January 2005.
THAT I swear this Affidavit in support of the Application to strike
Mr. Prior's counterclaim.
SWORN to before me at
St. John's, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador this 24th day of
January, 2005.
Signed by Della Hart
STEPHEN J. MAY
Signature STAMP
DELLA HART
A Commissioner for Oaths in and for
the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. My commission expires
on December 31, 2009
May 9, 2008 at 11:24 PM
David Raymond Amos said...
Nighty night Danny Doy. Trust that you Fake Left Dudes know less
than nothing about Byron Prior and whatever I learned it was byway of
the school of hard knocks. With luck you are about to get one too
Danny Boy.
Heres hoping I will see your local heroes T.J. Burke and Chucky
Leblanc in court soon let me know if your school gives ya the boot
will ya? I need a good laugh. I am feeling as mean as a snake Werner
lost three cattle just this week like you give a good god damn EH?
Neo-Nazi estate dispute to be overseen by Jewish groups
Two Jewish groups and New Brunswick attorney general to weigh in on case
CBC News ·
Three
outside groups will be allowed to weigh in on a legal dispute over a
New Brunswick man’s estimated $250,000 estate being left to an American
neo-Nazi group.
Robert McCorkill died in 2004, leaving $250,000 in
artifacts and investments to the National Alliance, a white supremacist
group in the United States.
Robert McCorkill lived in Saskatoon and Ottawa before moving to Saint John, where he died in 2004. (Southern Poverty Law Center)
When the matter goes to court in September, two prominent Jewish groups and the provincial attorney general will join her side.
Anita
Bromberg is the head of legal affairs with B'nai Brith Canada — one of
three groups granted intervener status in the McCorkill case.
She
said neo-Nazi beliefs are on the rise in Europe and a six figure gift to
the National Alliance could breathe life into the movement here.
"There's still an attraction to this philosophy, and to revive it is a dangerous concept," she said.
B'nai Brith will be joined by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, another of the interveners.
Richard Marceau, the general counsel for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, shares Bromberg’s concerns.
"The
National Alliance is much weaker than it was in the past and we don't
want to take any chances of money breathing new life into it," he said.
The province of New Brunswick, represented by the attorney general, will also have standing at next month's hearing.
All the interveners will be able to make submissions, trying to convince the court to wipe away McCorkill's will.
The lawyer representing the interests of the National Alliance did not object to any of the group's weighing in.
Rare coins, ancient weapons collection
The
collection includes Greek and Roman coins that are thousands of years
old, an ancient Iranian sword, Neolithic arrowheads and an Egyptian
stone tablet from the 13th Dynasty, according to a 55-page appraiser's
report from August 2010.
McCorkill was born in 1937, the son of a farmer in Bearbrook, Ontario.
He became a chemist and lived in Saskatoon in the 1990s, when he joined the National Alliance.
The
University of Saskatchewan's Museum of Antiquities was lent a portion
of his coin collection and put it on display for several years.
When
McCorkill moved to Ottawa around 2000, he took his collection with him.
Some of his artifacts remain on loan to the University of Ottawa's
Museum of Classical Antiquities.
NB Power payola and sneaky Kris Austin and his buddies in PANB
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:11:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - Re The news NB Power payola and a
little Deja Vu about my indignation towards Gaëtan Thomas and Ed
Barrett and their meeting with Kris Austin and PANB seven years ago
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$1.7M in severance paid to former NB Power CEO David Hay
Hay did not file objection to having amount released
By Robert Jones, Posted: Oct 17, 2017 6:00 AM AT
Former NB Power president David Hay was paid just over
$1.7 million following his sudden departure from the utility in January
of 2010.
After nearly eight years of keeping the amount secret, NB
Power is acknowledging it had to pay its former president David Hay the
equivalent of four years pay — just over $1.7 million — following his
sudden departure from the utility in January 2010.
"We have come to the conclusion that we will grant disclosure to this
information," NB Power's chief legal officer Wanda Harrison wrote in a
letter to CBC News last month following a right to information request
made about Hay's settlement package in July.
Late Monday, after giving Hay three weeks to file an objection to the
information's release — which apparently was not done — Harrison sent a
second letter detailing a settlement "range" that Hay received as part
of his departure.
According to the letter Hay was paid between $925,000 and $950,000 in
2010 and then between $775,000 and $800,000 in 2011 for a total
settlement of between $1.7 million and $1.75 million.
The amount was about four times Hay's annual salary at the time, even
though he had 26 months left on a 36-month employment contract.
Harrison said disclosing payments in a range is "consistent" with how employee salaries are presented in the public accounts.
Secret for over 7 years
NB Power has kept amounts it paid to Hay secret since abruptly
parting ways with the former president during the controversial attempt
to sell the utility to Hydro Quebec by the former government of Shawn
Graham.
Hay was the only member of NB Power's board of directors not to endorse the sale in a vote in January 2010. He abstained and then quit.
He had led NB Power for six years and was ten months into a new three-year employment contract when he left on one day's notice.
Former Liberal Energy Minister Jack Keir had
hinted Hay's severance package was significant but the details have
never been released until now. (CBC)
Hay earned just over $400,000 in 2009 according to the public
accounts and although then-Liberal Energy Minister Jack Keir hinted in
the Legislature Hay's severance package was significant, the details
have never been released.
"The type of severance package that David Hay would have agreed to is
the norm within the industry for a CEO at his level," said Keir two
days after Hay's resignation.
Keir said Hay's settlement would eventually be reported in the public accounts but it never was.
Two years after the resignation, Keir's replacement, Progressive
Conservative Energy Minister Craig Leonard, said he couldn't reveal the
size of Hay's severance deal because of secrecy agreements signed by the
Graham government.
"His severance package is subject to a confidentiality agreement that
was agreed to by the previous government and so obviously, we have to
live by that confidentiality agreement," said Leonard.
Court ruling overturns keeping severance secret
However, the province's ability to keep severance packages secret was
dealt a blow this summer when Radio-Canada won a lengthy right to
information fight to unseal a settlement paid to former
Dr. Eilish Cleary was let go as chief medical officer of health in December 2015. (CBC)
Cleary was fired by the Gallant government in December 2015 and paid a
secret $720,000 severance package that Radio-Canada went to court to
have disclosed.
In the ruling ordering the information to be released, Court of
Queen's Bench Justice Zoel Dionne called the payment "public
information" that government was wrong to try and suppress.
"It doesn't come from the pockets of negotiators or ministers or
managers. It's from the taxpayers of New Brunswick," said Dionne in an
oral ruling.
"If (government) is allowed to act in secret that's very dangerous for democracy," he said.
Following that decision CBC News made an application to NB Power to unseal details of Hay's severance.
Hay did not respond to a request for comment Monday, but he had little trouble finding work after leaving NB Power.
I tried to explain my concerns again but I quickly gave up on the mindless and sometimes very nasty bureaucratic minions trying hard playing dumb. My patience ran out after Kevin's funeral yesterday. All I can seem to say to the government employees now is Cya'll in Federal Court They can claim that they have no files on me but lets see how they argue my files about them.
From: Timothy Watson <apollospear@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Tell me Willy Baby Holst are your many crooked little Yankee lawyer buddies Leo McGinity Jr still laughing at a mean old Maritimer? To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Dear David, I appreciate your call and your trust. I have forwarded your documentation to George Freund at freund.gm@gmail.com. He is a keen investigator at www.thatchannel.com. I will give you a call this evening and we can chat some more. I have to go out on business in the early evening. I will review some of your work and have a chinwag with you upon my return. Much obliged for the information and the collegiate spirit. Talk to you in a while.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Socialist animals, "fifth columists" and what Canadian society thinks
Canada's uneducated "unionists", socialists, "social activists", and "protest tourists" are entirely responsible for the terrorist acts and violence perpetrated in Toronto at the G-8, G-20 summits. And more to the point, that is how the vast majority of Canadians feel about it.
Angus - Reid - Ipsos (June 28) conducted a poll of 1,859 Canadians including 689 residents of the GTA ( Greater Toronto Area) which showed: 74% of Canadians and 75% of GTA residents agreed that Black Bloc members and or any "protester" ought NOT be with any offence of the CC of C (Criminal of Code Canada) but under the provisions of Canada's counter-terrorism legislation.
Angus-Reid conducted a June 28-28 poll of 1003 Canadians in all provinces and a diverse sample showed: That 66% of Canadians not only felt police tactics and actions were justified, but also approved of police behavior. The same polls show 80 % of Canadians and 82% of GTA residents think legislation ought be enacted that makes it illegal to cover or obscure one's face during and "peaceful" demonstration.
Most Canadians thought or think that any "message" any of these "peaceful and law-abiding" protester had was NOT heard nor listened to. (51% of Canadian and 61% of GTA residents) .
So called you tube "intellectuals" will pontificate and opine about the "evils of statism" or that socialism is NOT about creating vast government bureaucracies but "tearing down walls".... real Canadians, the very vast majority of Canadians know that there is no such thing as a "peaceful protest march". But merely a group of low grade terrorists....enabling and encouraging violent terrorists.
Some years ago "peaceful protesters" in Toronto of all places rioted violently regarding the police beating of Black California resident Rodney Scott. These "peaceful protesters'," mantra was "trash it, don't steal it". That of course begs the question : Why "protest" and destroy individuals' private property in Toronto...to "protest" racism in suburban Los Angeles?
To make it clear to our uneducated, uninformed friends like that dope..."thestraightdope" or our "stuck in time" socialist fool "redfistofeurope" or pedophile David Anus let us once again state the obvious ....socialism has NO ONLY... been "cast upon to the dung heap of history" but tried to disseminate a "message" so disparate and stupid...from "nuke the whales", saving the seals, "world unger"and the "incineration of Africa"...that in the end ...there was NO MESSAGE...NO POINT the exercise other than to create a stage or tactical opportunity for terrorists to engage authorities ....(the Integrated Security Unit).
Notwithstanding "thestraightdope's" well edited and made propaganda video, and prevarications that only foreign corporations were targeted for violence by "peaceful protesters...these "peaceful protesters" are indeed terrorists. They aided and abetted terrorists and refused to denounce their stated goals and plans.
Your garden variety trade union protester or "social activist " is not educated nor particularly interested in curing any of the "world's ills". The appearance of a large and obese Quebecois woman being arrested by the ISU because as she said..." all I was doing was protesting world unger'. Then by all means then, volunteer your time and money to to Oxfam. UN food agencies, the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada....and FEED PEOPLE rather than..... "protest".
There were a significant number of ignorant and uneducated "protesters"complaining about the number of prisons in Canada. Yet a number of people really interested in the plight of those incarcerated yet innocent (project innocence) are constantly looking for financial assistance for the hiring of legal and investigatory duties.
Let us be very clear ....these "protests and protesters have NOTHING to do with societies ills...but merely are a challenge to authority that must be only tolerated until criminal laws are violated.
Protest is merely the act of those not willing nor intellectually equipped to facilitate change within society, and jail is indeed the best place for those of that ilk.
Thank you for contacting the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP. Your message has been received and if necessary, we shall respond as soon as possible.
Thank you for your interest and comments.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:44:18 -0300 Subject: I just called called from Canada and tried to speak to Lynn Harsh of Evergreen To: effwa@effwa.org, LHarsh@effwa.org
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:39:35 -0300 Subject: Re: I called twice from Canada and got voicemail and then a hangup as I was being directed to a media person Perhaps Sam Kazman will sit up and pay attention and call me back? To: Sam Kazman <SKazman@cei.org> Cc: pr <pr@cei.org>
I will away tomorrow but may be back by Friday
On 7/7/10, Sam Kazman <SKazman@cei.org> wrote: > I'm out of town till tomorrow, will try to respnd then > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > To: Sam Kazman; P R > Sent: Wed Jul 07 17:15:11 2010 > Subject: I called twice from Canada and got voicemail and then a hangup as > I > was being directed to a media person Perhaps Sam Kazman will sit up and > pay > attention and call me back? > > http://cei.org/people/sam-kazman > > I can be reached at > > 506 485 2578 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:37:18 -0300 > Subject: Vince Siemer hope you are not in jail yet You have an MBA So > you and the Parliamentarians in New Zealand should understand this > info and why I must sue the CROWN > To: news@radionz.co.nz, news@newstalkzb.co.nz, news@radiolive.co.nz, > news@tvnz.co.nz, cosdesk@tv3.co.nz, campbelllive@tv3.co.nz, > closeup@tvnz.co.nz, Ian Wishart <ian@investigatemagazine.com>, ian > sinclair <ian.sinclair@tvnz.co.nz>, hunter.wells@tvnz.co.nz, > audrey.young@nzherald.co.nz, Fran O'Sullivan > < fran.osullivan@xtra.co.nz>, john.armstrong@nzherald.co.nz, Steven > Price <steven.price@vuw.ac.nz>, editor@uncensored.co.nz, > tipoff@whaleoil.co.nz, ti@transparency.org, waterpressure@gmail.com, > mlm@archaeoskymatrix.com, national.kapiti@xtra.co.nz, > R.Hide@ministers.govt.nz, sandy.grove@parliament.govt.nz > Cc: laos_newzealand@yahoo.co.nz, vsiemer@hotmail.com, > lockwood.smith@national.org.nz > > You really pissed me off last night EH Benjamin but not a peep from > Penny EH? Heres hoping that you shared what I did on his behalf with > Vince Siemer before he gets locked up. > > As I said last night we all have the same Queen CORRECT Benjamin? I > read a lot of words sent to me from New Zealand since last summer and > responded when I felt I could help. Do you recall some of the > responses I got from your friends last year as I supported their > concerns? Soem of them were quite nasty EH? Imagine if you people had > actually read some of my stuff and relayed my info to Siemer last > year? > > Please allow me to make just two of the things I did in 2003 and 2009 > real simple for any parliamentarian or MBA or lawyer with an ethical > mind to understand by merely forwarding one email response I got from > a parliamentarian in England last month. After all everybody loves > their money correct? Read what I sent to the Cabinet Minister in > England would should be concerned about the media that Siemer laments > about. Imagine if the Yankees had not covered up my concerns about the > fraudulant actions of the financial industry and the US Treasury Dept > in 2002?.A lot of people would have a lot more money to love these > days if anyone knew how to read EH? > > Well in 2002 I did my best to warn the world ab out Banksters and Bush > and got locked up and lost everything including my family. Since 2009 > I have been warning it again about Zionists and Obama and nobody gives > a damn but watch out for a war with Iran and another even bigger dip > in the economy. Fo the benefit of all our children I truly hope I am > wrong. > > I must as the obvious question If the justice sytem New Zealand found > Mr Siemer's webpages so offensive then howcome it did nothing about > this blog? Scroll back to through it to last fall and see what this > zionist says about you people in New Zealand. This Barry Winters > character sent you people many emails trying to impeach my character > correct? > > http://baconfat53.blogspot.com > > That said you do know how many responses I got from your > parliamentarians last year about your and Penny's concerns don't ya > Ben? If not then scroll to the bottom to review a couple that were not > computer generated.Minister Rodney Hide should get back to me sometime > soon if he bothers to read this email. wheras your names were > mentioned in the subject line you and Penny should have sat up and > paid attention then instead of just sending more emails and playing > dumb like you did last night. Anyway you kept on sending me notice > your concerns way downunder and I read them to see if anything > coincided with mine north of the 49th. When I read Mr Siemer's stuff I > saw that we ran into the same sort of crooks I did and I knew for a > fact I could help him if we could get IMMMI and Wikileaks to say his > name and mine in the same sentence all over the world. Their declared > mandate caused me to send Siemer's stuff to them to stress test their > ethics again with another whistleblower's concerns. However I suspect > he will go to jail I will have to go it alone as usual EH? At least I > am still free and have every right and the savvy to know how to sue > the Queen.. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos . > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "STAINTON-JAMES, Angela" <STAINTONJAMESA@parliament.uk> > To: "'David Amos'" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:50 AM > Subject: RE: So what is the Conservative MP Hugh Robertson gonna do > about people in his riding torturing people on the Internet? In Canada > such slander is a crime EH Vic Toews? > > > > Dear David > > Thank you for your e-mail addressed to Hugh Robertson. Your e-mail > has come through to Hugh's constituency office when, clearly, you need > his Department. Sadly, I do not have an e-mail address for him but > the telephone number of the Department of Media Culture and Sport is > 020 7211 6200 and they should be able to provide you with the > necessary information. > > Thank you for writing to Hugh and if you have any problem at all > please do not hesitate to come back to me. > > Best wishes > Angela Stainton-James > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com] > Sent: 29 May 2010 23:24 > To: STAINTON-JAMES, Angela; toewsv1 > Cc: RHar100@aol.com; Gilles. Blinn; gilles.moreau; roger. gillies; > rogerduguay21 > Subject: So what is the Conservative MP Hugh Robertson gonna do about > people in his riding torturing people on the Internet? In Canada such > slander is a crime EH Vic Toews? > > Need I say that "Satan's Crack Dealer" and his many evil little fans > atacked the wrong pissed of Maritimer in Youtube? Scroll down read > real slow and then call your lawyer or the cops Mr Roberson > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6074892060 > Richard Coughlan > Faversham, United Kingdom > email RHar100@aol.com > Website:http://youtube.com/user/coughlan666 > Phone 07935333407 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:46:20 -0300 > Subject: Mr. Finkelstein I just discovered you and your concerns today > perhaps we should have a long talk ASAP? i an be reached at 506 485 > 2578 for a couple of days > To: normfinkelstein@gmail.com > > Need I say that I am hounoured that this evil person hates me/ > > http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/05/americans-have-never-guarantteed.html > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:23:46 -0300 > Subject: Lets see if the Russians will understand Fwd: We just talked > this what I was trying to relate to the President of Mexico while he > was in Canada > To: info@rusembassy.ca > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:19:51 -0300 > Subject: We just talked this what I was trying to relate to the > President of Mexico while he was in Canada > To: atperez_lee <atperez_lee@yahoo.com.mx> > > The easiest way to check something about my concerns quickly is to go > to the US Senate Banking Committee hearing on November 18th and 20th > 2003 and notice the webcasts and transcripts of a very important > hearing about the financial industry are missing. Please notice the > crook Eliot Spitzer testified on the 20th > > http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.List&Month=0&Year=2003 > > > http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=102e41a1-f540-4ce5-a701-b6d09b7606b1 > > http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2 > > Now look for Spitzer's answer to me on page 13 of this pdf file > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right > > The easy answer to your next question is YES I am the the guy nobody > will talk about. so perhaps you should for the benefit of your > concerns and pocketbook. (Google David Amos and Wendy Olsen to see how > far down the rabbbit hole I can take anyone) > > I explained some of it a year ago on many talk shows and nobody cared. > Listen here if you wish then go figure whom you should trust. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJGDSlnyKro > > If nothing else have laugh at my espense and Google this expression > "Nobody will say my name" > > > Here is just one of the many reasons why > > -----Original Message----- > From: Olsen, Wendy (USANYS) > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:21 AM > To: David Amos; USANYS-MADOFF; Litt, Marc (USANYS) > Cc: webo; vasilescua@sec.gov; friedmani@sec.gov; krishnamurthyp@sec.gov > Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US > ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > > Thank you for your response. > > Wendy Olsen > Victim Witness Coordinator > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:48 AM > To: USANYS-MADOFF; Olsen, Wendy (USANYS); Litt, Marc (USANYS) > Cc: webo; vasilescua@sec.gov; friedmani@sec.gov; krishnamurthyp@sec.gov > Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US > ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > > Ms Olsen > > Thank you for keeping me informed. > > Yes unseal all my emails with all their attachments immediately and > make certain that the US Attorny's office finally practices full > disclosurement as to who I am and what my concerns are as per the Rule > of Law within a purported democracy. > > As you folks all well know I am not a shy man and I have done nothing > wrong. It appears to me that bureacratic people only use the right to > privacy of others when it suits their malicious ends in order to > protect their butts from impreacment, litigation and prosecution. > > The people in the US Attorney's Office and the SEC etc are very well > aware that I protested immediately to everyone I could think of when > the instant I knew that my correspondences went under seal and Madoff > pled guilty so quickly and yet another cover up involing my actions > was under full steam. Everybody knows that.the US Government has been > trying to keep my concerns about the rampant public corruption a > secret for well over seven long years. However now that a lot of > poeple and their countries in general are losing a lot of money people > are beginning to remember just exactly who I am and what i did > beginning over seven years ago.. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 506 756 8687 > > P.S. For the record Obviously I pounced on these Yankee bastards as > soon as the newsrag in Boston published this article on the web last > night. > > http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&f > ormat=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull > > Notice that Nester just like everyone else would not say my name? It > is because my issues surrounding both Madoff and are NOT marketing > timing They are as you all well know money laundering, fraud, > forgery, perjury, securites fraud, tax fraud, Bank fraud, illegal > wiretappping and Murder amongst other very serious crimes. > > "SEC spokesman John Nester dismissed similarities between Markopolos > and Scannell's cases as "not a valid comparison." > > He said the SEC determined the market-timing by Putnam clients that > Scannell reported didn't violate federal law. Nester said the SEC only > acted after another tipster alleged undisclosed market-timing by some > Putnam insiders. > > Scannell, now a crusader for SEC reforms, isn't surprised the agency > is in hot water again. > > Noting that several top SEC officials have gone on to high-paying > private-sector jobs, he believes hopes for future employment impact > investigations. "It's a distinct disadvantage to make waves before you > enter the private sector," Scannell said." > > --- On Mon, 3/30/09, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Subject: Fwd: USANYS-MADOFF IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S > OFFICE > SDNY > To: NesterJ@sec.gov, letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com, "oig" > < oig@sec.gov>, Thunter@tribune.com, david@davidmyles.com, > ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca, "Dan Fitzgerald" <danf@danf.net> > Cc: dsheehan@bakerlaw.com, dspelfogel@bakerlaw.com, > mc@whistleblowers.org, gkachroo@mccarter.com, > david.straube@accenture.com, gurdip.s.sahota@accenture.com, > benjamin_mcmurray@ao.uscourts.gov, bob_burke@ao.uscourts.gov > Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:00 PM > > Need I say BULLSHIT? > > http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&f > ormat=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:03:13 -0300 > Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE > SDNY > To: Russ.Stanton@latimes.com, meredith.goodman@latimes.com, > ninkster@navigantconsulting.com, dgolub@sgtlaw.com > Cc: firstselectmanffld@town.fairfield.ct.us, > editor@whatsupfairfield.com, info@csiworld.org, jacques_poitras > < jacques_poitras@cbc.ca> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:40:55 -0300 > Subject: Fwd: USANYS-MADOFF FW: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US > ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > To: gmacnamara@town.fairfield.ct.us, MartiK1 <MartiK1@parl.gc.ca>, > "Paul. Harpelle" <Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>, Jason Keenan > < jason.keenan@icann.org>, Kandalaw <Kandalaw@mindspring.com> > Cc: info@grahamdefense.org, fbinhct@leo.gov > > From: "Peck,Dave" <DPeck@town.fairfield.ct.us> > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:32:32 -0400 > Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: USANYS-MADOFF FW: IMPORTANT > INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > I will be unavailable until 4/1/09. > > Deputy Chief MacNamara will be in charge while I am away. > > He can be reached at 254-4831 or email him at > gmacnamara@town.fairfield.ct.us > > I will not be checking emails or cell phone messages. > > Thank you, > > Chief Dave Peck > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:32:18 -0300 > Subject: Fwd: USANYS-MADOFF FW: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US > ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > To: dpeck@town.fairfield.ct.us, edit@ctpost.com, bresee@courant.com > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:19:35 -0300 > Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF FW: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US > ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > To: dtnews@telegraph.co.uk > > -----Original Message----- > From: USANYS-MADOFF > Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:06 PM > To: DAVID.RAYMOND.AMOS@GMAIL.COM > Subject: IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY > > In United States v. Bernard L. Madoff, 09 Cr. 213 (DC), the Court > received a request from NBC and ABC to unseal all correspondence from > victims that has been submitted in connection with the case. > > This includes your email to the Government. > > If the correspondence from victims is unsealed, the victim's personal > identifying information including name, address, telephone number and > email address (to the extent it was included on the correspondence) > will become public. The Government must submit a response to the > request by NBC and ABC by Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Please let us know > whether you consent to the full disclosure of your correspondence, or > whether you wish to have your correspondence remain sealed for privacy > or other reasons. > If you wish to have your correspondence remain sealed, please let us > know the reason. We will defend your privacy to the extent that we > can. Thank you. > > I looks like the US attorney in New York finally has to unseal my > emails that you dudes have been sitting on for quite some time for no > reason I will ever understand other than you are just a bunch of > chickenshits. > > I know NBC, ABC, your blogger buddies or any other media wacko will > never say my name but the pissed off folks that lost a lot of money > with Bernie Baby just may ask how the hell I am EH? > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > > > > > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:48:50 -0300 > Subject: Fwd: Trust that whatever covert deal that Bernie Madoff and > KPMG etc may make with the Feds they are not fooling mean old me > To: Marc.Litt@usdoj.gov > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:29:42 -0300 > Subject: Fwd: Trust that whatever covert deal that Bernie Madoff and > KPMG etc may make with the Feds they are not fooling mean old me > To: PChavkin@mintz.com > Cc: webo <webo@xplornet.com> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Olsen, Wendy (USANYS)" <Wendy.Olsen@usdoj.gov> > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:08:04 -0400 > Subject: RE: Trust that whatever covert deal that Bernie Madoff and > KPMG etc may make with the Feds they are not fooling mean old me > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > On March 10, 2009, the Honorable Denny Chin provided the following > guidance for victims who wish to be heard at the plea proceeding on > March 12, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.: > > Judge Chin stated that there are two issues that the Court will > consider at the hearing: (1) whether to accept a guilty plea from the > defendant to the eleven-count Criminal Information filed by the > Government, which provides for a maximum sentence of 150 years' > imprisonment; and (2) whether the defendant should be remanded or > released on conditions of bail, if the Court accepts a guilty plea. > Judge Chin also stated that, at the hearing on March 12, 2009, he will > conduct a plea allocution of the defendant and then will announce > whether the Court intends to accept the plea. At that time, the Court > will solicit speakers who disagree with the Court's intended ruling. > > Assuming the defendant pleads guilty and his plea is accepted by > the Court, the Court intends to allow the Government and defense > counsel to speak on the issue of bail. The Court will then announce > its intended ruling on that issue. The Court will then invite > individuals who disagree with the proposed ruling on bail to be heard. > > The Court noted that there will be opportunity for victims to be > heard in the future on the subjects of sentencing, forfeiture and > restitution in advance of any sentencing of the defendant. The Court > also noted that it is not appropriate for victims who wish to speak > concerning sentencing issues to be heard at the March 12, 2009 > proceeding. > > A link to the a transcript of the March 10, 2009 Court hearing can > be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the > Southern District of New York: > > http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Olsen, Wendy (USANYS) > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:56 AM > To: usanys.madoff@usdoj.gov > Subject: FW: Trust that whatever covert deal that Bernie Madoff and > KPMG etc may make with the Feds they are not fooling mean old me > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:58 PM > To: horwitzd@dicksteinshapiro.com; Nardoza, Robert (USANYE); > USAMA-Media (USAMA); Olsen, Wendy (USANYS) > Cc: oig > Subject: Trust that whatever covert deal that Bernie Madoff and KPMG > etc may make with the Feds they are not fooling mean old me > > horwitzd@dicksteinshapiro.com > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Sartory, Thomas J." <TSartory@goulstonstorrs.com> > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:41:20 -0500 > Subject: RE: I did talk the lawyers Golub and Flumenbaum tried to > discuss Bernie Madoff and KPMG etc before sending these emails > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > > Dear Mr. Amos, > > I am General Counsel at Goulston & Storrs. Your email below to > Messers. Rosensweig and Reisch has been forwarded to me for response. > While it's not clear what type of assistance, if any, you seek from > Goulston % Storrs, please be advised that we are not in a position to > help you. Please do not send further communications to any of our > attorneys. We will not be able to respond, and your communications > will not be protected by the attorney-client privilege. > > We wish you well in the pursuit of your concerns. > > Sincerely, > > Thomas J. Sartory > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto: > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:18 PM > To: Rosensweig, Richard J.; info@LAtaxlawyers.com; Reisch, Alan M.; > reed@hbsslaw.com > Subject: Fwd: I did talk the lawyers Golub and Flumenbaum tried to > discuss Bernie Madoff and KPMG etc before sending these emails > > Perhaps somebody should call me back now. EH? > > UK Parliament Disclaimer: > This e-mail is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have > received it in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your > system. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying is not permitted. > This e-mail has been checked for viruses, but no liability is accepted > for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R Hide (MIN)" <R.Hide@ministers.govt.nz> > To: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:33 PM > Subject: RE: BENJAMIN'S EASTON'S PROTEST NOTICE ABOUT INJUSTICES I > have an idea for you Ben > > > On behalf of the Hon Rodney Hide, Minister of Local Government, I wish > to acknowledge receipt of your email. > > Your correspondence has been placed in front of the Minister. > > regards > > Sandy Grove > Ministerial Private Secretary (Advisory) > Office of Hon Rodney Hide > WELLINGTON > Ph 04 817 6630 > Email: sandy.grove@parliament.govt.nz > > The content of this email, including any attachment, is intended for > the named recipient only and is not necessarily the official view or > communication of the Department of Internal Affairs It may contain > privileged material and/or confidential information. > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not > copy it, distribute it or take any action in reliance on it. 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No > liability is accepted for any loss or damage arising from the use of > this email or its attachments. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 29 September 2009 3:05 pm > To: T Ryall (MIN); Amy Adams; Jim Anderton; > anderton.wigram@xtra.co.nz; Jacinda Ardern; Shane Ardern; Chris > Auchinvole; Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi; Rick Barker; Carol Beaumont; David > Bennett; Loren Bolton (MIN); Jackie Blue; Chester Borrows; > chester.wanganui@xtra.co.nz; chester.hawera@xtra.co.nz; John Boscawen; > Sue Bradford; socialjustice@greens.org.nz; Simon Bridges; Natalie > Roberts (MIN); Brendon Burns; bb@brendonburns.co.nz; Chris Carter; > labourwest@xtra.co.nz; D Carter (MIN); cartermp@xtra.co.nz; J Carter > (MIN); northlandelectorate@xtra.co.nz; Steve Chadwick; Charles > Chauvel; Ashraf Choudhary; J Coleman (MIN); J Collins (MIN); > office@judithcollins.co.nz; Clayton Cosgrove; > claytoncosgrovekaiapoi@xtra.co.nz; David Cunliffe; > dcunliffe@xtra.co.nz; Clare Curran; lianne.dalziel@parliament.govt.nz; > Kelvin Davis; Jacqui Dean; Catherine Delahunty; Roger Douglas; P Dunne > (MIN); electjville@xtra.co.nz; Ruth Dyson; ruth.dyson@xtra.co.nz; B > English (MIN); elecgor@esi.co.nz; Darien Fenton; > office@labournorth.org.nz; C Finlayson (MIN); Jeanette Fitzsimons; Te > Ururoa Flavell; Craig Foss; craigfoss@backingthebay.co.nz; David > Garrett; Aaron Gilmore; p.goff@parliament.govt.nz; phil@goff.org.nz; > Jo Goodhew; sandra.goudie@national.org.nz; Kennedy Graham; Hon. Tim > Groser (MIN); nathan.guy@national.org.nz; > national.horowhenua@xtra.co.nz; national.kapiti@xtra.co.nz; Kevin > Hague; Hone Harawira; Terry Ututaonga; George Hawkins; John Hayes; P > Heatley (MIN); Tau Henare; tau.henaremp@xtra.co.nz; R Hide (MIN); > rodney@epsom.org.nz; Paul Hutchison; hunua.electorate@xtra.co.nz; > Shane Jones; shanejonesmp@xtra.co.nz; S Joyce (MIN); Rahui Katene; > Nikki Kaye; Sue Kedgley; J Key (MIN); genelle@johnkey.mp.net.nz; > A.King@parliament.govt.nz; kilbirnieeo@xtra.co.nz; > colin.kingmp@xtra.co.nz; winnie.laban@parliament.govt.nz; > mana.electorate@xtra.co.nz; Melissa Lee; > Iain.leesgalloway@parliament.govt.nz; Keith Locke; > greenmps.auckland@greens.org.nz; > peseta.sam.lotuiiga@parliament.govt.nz; Tim Macindoe; > moana.mackey@labour.org.nz; Nanaia Mahuta; > tainuielectorate@xtra.co.nz; Trevor Mallard; WOAoffice@xtra.co.nz; > petone.eo@clear.net.nz; W Mapp (MIN); Todd McClay; M McCully (MIN); > murray.mccully@xtra.co.nz; Sue Moroney; waikatohub.mps@xtra.co.nz; > Stuart Nash; Russel Norman; Hekia Parata; David Parker; Allan Peachey; > Ritchie Wards; lynne.pillaymp@xtra.co.nz; S Power (MIN); > simonpower.feilding@xtra.co.nz; simonpower.marton@xtra.co.nz; Rajen > Prasad; Paul Quinn; angela.bray@parliament.govt.nz; > jen.toogood@parliament.govt.nz; Chris Hipkins; > marlene.ditchfield@xtra.co.nz; janette.granville@xtra.co.nz; Pete > Hodgson; pete@petehodgson.co.nz; Parekura Horomia; > ikaroa.gis@xtra.co.nz; ikaroa.hstgs@xtra.co.nz; Darren Hughes; Raymond > Huo; office@grantrobertson.co.nz; Ross Robertson; > rae.waterhouse@xtra.co.nz; michael.clatworthy@xtra.co.nz; Eric Roy; H > Roy (MIN); Heather Henderson; Pita Sharples (MIN); Sua William Sio; > Trish Wanden; mp.rodney.warkworth@xtra.co.nz; N Smith (MIN); > nick@nick4nelson.co.nz; Maryan Street; Lindsay Tisch; > tolleywhk@xtra.co.nz; tolleygis@xtra.co.nz; > chris.tremain@national.org.nz; napier.electorate@airnet.net.nz; > Metiria Turei; greenmps.dunedin@greens.org.nz; T Turia (MIN); > Tari.Turia@xtra.co.nz; Philip Twyford; Louise Upston; Nicky Wagner; K > Wilkinson (MIN); waimakariri@xtra.co.nz; M Williamson (MIN); Michael > Woodhouse; blueandgold@parliament.govt.nz; P Wong (MIN); > pansy.wong@xtra.co.nz; ahan.young@parliament.govt.nz; > rosslynn@hrc.co.nz; sylviab@hrc.co.nz; michaelW@hrc.co.nz; > phillippa.smith@oag.govt.nz; Mark.Holman@ssc.govt.nz; > mark.thornton@justice.govt.nz; boris.vanbeusekom@justice.govt.nz; > tinz@paradise.net.nz; >; emma.miles@police.govt.nz; > John.Rivers@police.govt.nz; Mike.Webb@police.govt.nz; > nurses@nzno.org.nz; gay@pha.org.nz; qsolutionsrising@gmail.com; > easy@island.net; jardim.stratton@gmail.com; > christinejhansen@gmail.com; no_to_nwo@yahoo.co.uk; > johan.niklasson@evolution-production.com; lunalas@cox.net; > saxon1hero@yahoo.co.uk; journalist@bellsouth.net; > irenew.politico@gmail.com; daniel.solis@seznam.cz; > vickytoxotis@hotmail.com; wef339@mail.com; katcre22@yahoo.com; > scott@tkgtech.com; amandablake@blueyonder.co.uk; > who.flu.2009@gmail.com; jazon@ymail.com; sineadcasper@live.ie; > acpscotland@hotmail.co.uk; p.duffy93@ntlworld.com; > tua46054@temple.edu; ciaranmcloone@ooglemail.com; > marek_p2000@yahoo.com; black2000at@hotmail.com; > madame_karnak@yahoo.com; sracine@gmail.com; > annikatornlind@hotmail.com; manonf6@yahoo.com; matt@mattengelman.com; > grantlear@hotmail.com; helix7@hotmail.com; editor@uncensored.co.nz; > melocacau@gmail.com; steve.gosschalk@gmail.com; > tidalelectric@gmail.com; vapi.kupenga@xtra.co.nz; > eastwood.vincent@gmail.com; sichel@nsw.chariot.net.au; > mlm@archaeoskymatrix.com > Cc: laos_newzealand@yahoo.co.nz; jane burgermeister > Subject: RE: BENJAMIN'S EASTON'S PROTEST NOTICE ABOUT INJUSTICES I > have an idea for you Ben > > From: National Kapiti Electorate Office <national.kapiti@xtra.co.nz> > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:14:19 +1300 > Subject: RE: NZ HEALTH MINISTER TONY RYALL - MS PENNY DO YOU READ > EMAILS AS WELL AS WRITE THEM? > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > Dear Mr Amos > Thank you for copying Nathan in with your email to NZ Health Minister Tony > Ryall. This has been passed on to Nathan for his information. > > Regards > Heather > > Heather Shaw| Electorate Agent for Hon Nathan Guy MP for Otaki > P: +64 4 298 2906| F: +64 4 298 4845| Shop 3, 23 Amohia Street, > Paraparaumu, > Kapiti Coast 5032 > www.nathanguy.co.nz > > Regards > Heather > > Jan 3rd, 2004 > > Mr. David R. Amos > 153 Alvin Avenue > Milton, MA U.S.A. 02186 > > Dear Mr. Amos > > Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to > my predecessor, > the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding your safety. I apologize for the > delay in responding. > > If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only > suggest that you contact > the police of local jurisdiction. In addition, any evidence of > criminal activity should be brought > to their attention since the police are in the best position to > evaluate the information and take > action as deemed appropriate. > > I trust that this information is satisfactory. > > Yours sincerely > A. Anne McLellan” > > September 11th, 2004 > > Dear Mr. Amos, > > On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne > Clarkson, I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and > CD regarding corruption, one received from you directly, and the > other forwarded to us by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of > New Brunswick. > > I regret to inform you that the Governor General cannot > intervene in matters that are the responsibility of elected officials > and courts of > Justice of Canada. You already contacted the various provincial > authorities > regarding your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take. > > Yours sincerely. > > Renee Blanchet > Office of the Secretary to the Governor General >
N.B.
Power uses coal, oil and natural gas in its various fossil fuel
generating stations. This year greenhouse gas emissions by the utility
are projected to exceed four million tonnes for the first time in more
than a decade. (Jacques Poitras/CBC News file photo)
Louise
Comeau, director of climate change and energy solutions at the
Conservation Council of New Brunswick, says N.B. Power's increased use
of fossil fuels to generate electricity is moving in the wrong
direction. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
N.B.
Power confirmed Higgs’s figures. Carbon price costs to the utility will
be $22 million in the coming year and rise to $30 million in 2025-26,
said utility spokesperson Dominique Couture. (Mike Heenan/CBC News file photo)
The
Irving Pulp and Paper mill overlooking the Reversing Falls in Saint
John is one of six New Brunswick facilities that has electricity costs
subsidized by N.B. Power. The group qualified for $10 million last year,
but that will jump to $14.7 million next year. (Roger Cosman/CBC News)
Twin
Rivers operates a paper mill in Edmundston. It pays power rates that
are tied to a Canadian average calculated by the New Brunswick
government. The arrangement helps shield mills from rate increases that
hit other N.B. Power customers. (CBC)
When
he was the New Brunswick energy minister in 2012, Craig Leonard
introduced subsidies for pulp and paper mills in 2012 to help companies
he said were facing 'severe challenges.' Ten years later the department
won't say if any updated studies have been done into whether the help is
still required. 
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At
the legislature Wednesday, Premier Blaine Higgs blamed the higher costs
driving the rate hike on federal climate policies that he said are
making energy more expensive. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Natural
Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland said he's
strongly in favour of allowing the utility to form its own rate increase
without intervention from the government. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)![[IRS.jpg]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ne8Q7TeybUc/SFNyAJCln9I/AAAAAAAABE8/seWnLXU8YMU/w499-h640/IRS.jpg)
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