Thursday, October 20, 2011

Forgive me Yahweh for I am about to be

angry belligerent.

After listening to this interview with Tom [hope springs eternal] Hedderson on shipping to the north coast I am having trouble not up chucking all over the radio. Well OK the key board.

How many times did he use the work HOPE? He HOPES that the Bond can be put in service, even though it lays in dry dock as he spoke. Like it is the end of bloody October Tom, with just maybe 6 weeks left in the season.

He HOPES that his people and CIA-Nunatsiavut can come to an equitable deal in replacing the Dutch Runner next year. He HOPES that the Astron can be put in service if needed.
 What a load of codswallop.

And NOW at this late date it is reveled that it is not The Great Lakes Feeder lines that the government contracted the Dutch from but it is now CAI- Nunatsiavut. Why that revelation, something is fishy with all this.

He had high HOPES at the start of the season that the Dutch would be as good or better than the previous vessel. My question would be what does he base those high HOPES on.

When it was announced that the Dutch would be the vessel I did a search and found a video of the Dutch doing a run in the canals of Eastern Canada. Talk about watching paint dry. Slow as a wet week and looked then tottaly inappropriate for the Labrador coast.

These guys at transportation and works are supposed to have experience with the needs of coastal shipping.
 
What was the real reason this ship was chosen? What was the real reason CAI-Nunatsiavut was chosen?

I would desperately like to hear from Nunatsiavut Government as to what really went on in this whole deal.
But being a realist I wont hang by the short and curlies for that interview. No one involved would come out smelling very nice if the truth came out.

It was evident right from the start of the season that this vessel was not going to cut it for this service, yet nothing substantive was done then and nothing substantive is being done now.

The damage has been done by having people do without many staples of food all summer long. All we get from Hedderson is he HOPES that the winter supplies can be delivered in time.

Update: Here is an idea, why not build a new ferry [something the government has been procrastinating about for 8 years] for the north coast run.

We seem to have the expertise and infrastructure in the province, why this company has come into public view today after the big federal navy procurement announcement.

Why not do it instead of frigging around with studies and wait and attitudes to see how the roads work out.
Which by the way are years behind sched.

1 comment:

MargaretJ said...

Brian,

Hope? We've got more damn hope in the US than we know what to do with! It won't replace action and results though. It's the new buzzword when things are just plain old screwed up. Let's hope it gets better...;-)