Conversations About Leaks

The Battery, St. John's: May 11, 2016

The last time the province of Ontario released a climate change action plan - that would be in 2007 - there were a mess of leaks in the run up to the official release.

But, nothing comes close to the degree and intensity of the leak this past week - on Monday, when I was still on Newfoundland time, so that the enormity dawned on me about a half hour after everyone else.

The official climate change plan is still some time away from hitting the street. We are now on super double plus document distribution lock down. If there's another leak before the planned release, we'll have no one to investigate but ourselves.

Because of all the uncontrolled releases of information recently, I've spent a lot of time on the phone with stakeholders - people representing businesses that will be affected one way or the other by the government's plans.

One of these people said to me: "It must be a great feeling to be working on something that is in the newspapers and that everyone is talking about."

Maybe. Let's ask Mike Duffey about that.

Still, my neighbours are impressed. I'd hinted a couple of meetings of the condo board ago that there might be in the near future other things in the offing for home heating besides natural gas. A fellow board member loudly scoffed at the notion that anything would trump natural gas from now until the end of time. He's not scoffing now.

Thanks for reading!

Have a great long weekend!

Karen