We own the windbags

Fresh from driving a $2-billion private-sector investment out of Labrador, in these nationalist-jingoist-crypto-separatist-crypto-communist terms...

“We are currently in the process of the most comprehensive energy policy review ever undertaken in this province to develop an Energy Plan. This plan will set out the framework for policy decisions on how our energy sources are developed to achieve maximum benefit for the province. Obviously, the development of wind power will be a component of that plan. As a result we will not be making any decisions on such large wind development projects until government has its Energy Plan complete.

“There exists tremendous opportunity for the provincial government, through Hydro, to lead the development of major wind projects in this province that would lead to cost-effective power for all ratepayers, as well as the potential to export power at a financial benefit to the province. At this point we need to keep all of those options available.”

...comes this news:

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) announced today that NeWind Group Inc. will be awarded a contract to provide 25 megawatts (MW) of wind power to the island from its St. Lawrence Wind Project. [...]

"NeWind submitted a comprehensive, cost-effective proposal for wind power," said Ed Martin, Hydro’s CEO. "We’re pleased to move forward with the company. They’ll be developing a project that makes economic and environmental sense for Newfoundland and Labrador. The project will provide clean, renewable energy for homes and businesses in this province.

As Ed Martin or Ed Byrne or Glorious Leader himself are reported to have told Ventus, "we own the wind".

Which would make you wonder: Why do "we" only hold Labrador's wind in crypto-commie title?
Is the NeWind contract a "giveaway" of "our" wind?

Why do "we" want to make "maximum benefit for the province" from Labrador's wind, through a Crown corp... but the wind of of the "wind-swept land" is open to third-party, private-sector development?

And why move with third-party, private-sector wind energy in Newfoundland, absent the completion of the provincial energy plan... the other ostensible excuse for driving $2-billion in investment out of Labrador?

Now, more than ever, it is imperative for Danny Williams, Glorious Leader, Successful Negotiator, Skilful Businessman, to answer one teeny, tiny, and ever-so-inconvenient question:

What is the sound, rational, coherent, and articulated basis on which wind power in Labrador is distinguished from wind power in Newfoundland?

Huh?

WHAT IS IT?

Maybe, before the last cabinet shuffle, the Minister of Business knew the answer.