Where's Dean?

From the Memory Hole. For those who like bibliographic references, this is Kevin Cox reporting for the Globe and Mail of November 27, 2002:

Surely to goodness Dean MacDonald is available for comment on Our Dear Transmission Line... isn't he?

HALIFAX -- The former chairman of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro says he resigned because there were not enough benefits for the people of the province in a proposed $4-billion deal to develop power on the Churchill River in Labrador.

Dean MacDonald said in an interview yesterday that under the proposed agreement Quebec stands to get the lion's share of profit from the Gull Island hydroelectric project in Labrador and people in the region will receive little long-term economic development from the 2,000-megawatt generating station.

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But Mr. MacDonald said Newfoundland and Labrador should not sign the proposed agreement because it doesn't provide for significant amounts of electrical power to be diverted from the main transmission lines to proposed economic development in Labrador.

"Labrador is being marginalized by this deal," Mr. MacDonald said. "They would never have a steady stream of affordable power."