Des Sullivan

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Uncle Gnarley is hosted by Des Sullivan, of St. John's. He is a businessman engaged over three decades in real estate management and development and retail companies. He is currently a Director of Dorset Investments Limited. During his early career he served as Executive Assistant to Premier's Frank D. Moores (1975-1979) and Brian Peckford (1979-1985). He also served as a Part-Time Board Member on the Canada-Newfoundland Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB). Uncle Gnarley appears on the masthead representing serious and unambiguous positions on NL politics and public policy. Uncle Gnarley is a fiscal conservative possessing distinctly liberal values and a non-partisan persusasion. Those values and opinions underlie this writer's views on NL's politics, economy and society. Uncle Gnarley publishes Monday mornings and more often when events warrant.
Churchill Falls MOU

My generation should rail against the Churchill Falls MOU with all the energy left in our aging bodies

Des Sullivan -
I especially remember the years after the inequity of the 1969 Churchill Falls contract began to grip members of the public. The sense of unfairness exhibited in the Churchill Falls Contract was rife; it bothered many people to a degree that it became a wound on the collective psyche of my generation.
Churchill Falls MOU

You won’t see Fred Cahill, Mark Dobbin, Brian Dalton, Robert Patten, or Peter Woodward deliberately destroy the value of their assets. Why should we...

Des Sullivan -
Only negotiators ignorant of the law and NL history, and NL politicians opportunistically inclined to use this multi-billion dollar moment to seek re-election, would permit such a travesty to occur. No society, certainly not one carrying the level of debt with which Newfoundland and Labrador is burdened, can survive this level of recklessness.
Muskrat Falls

TEN YEARS AFTER MUSKRAT FALLS SANCTION – We will have to think abandonment of the Labrador Island Link

Des Sullivan -
Put simply, whether Muskrat Falls come online or not, it cannot be relied upon. Without admitting their gross negligence at the start, Hydro is essentially saying that that we should try to salvage Muskrat Falls at an undefined cost and for for however short the duration it might operate.
NL Life

GROUP SEEKS PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CABOT MARTIN RESEARCH AWARD

Des Sullivan -
Cabot Martin’s sudden passing, in September, has stirred his friends, colleagues, and others familiar with his work, to honor him and encourage continued work in applied research and public policy development.
Muskrat Falls

GILBERT BENNETT AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF CRONYISM

Des Sullivan -
$1 million is not bad farewell for a fellow whose work performance represents one of the principal reasons for a twenty million dollar Public Inquiry, and who failed so badly in his job so badly that NL Hydro is still trying to define the mess that he (and others) has left behind.
NL politics

THE “ODE”: SHORT CUT TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS LANDS MEMORIAL IN HOT WATER

Des Sullivan -
As much as anything else, it is also a simple love song to a people and to their place. It is deficient in the language of inclusion, yes, sexist by the standards of today, too, but only those who misunderstanding the language of respect ascribe to it offense whether to aboriginal, to gender, or to religious belief.
Muskrat Falls

ANOTHER $0.5 BILLION FOR HYDRO? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?

Des Sullivan -
Ms. Williams is long-winded on every issue except an explanation as to why the public has been handed a bucket of bolts for their $15 billion. Why would the public now give her Crown Corporation one more cent when she has failed to demonstrate either Hydro’s competence or the right to be trusted?
NL Wind Power

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT “MISSES” IN A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

Des Sullivan -
In the current geopolitical climate, Europe cut off from Russia’s Nord Stream Pipelines, an engaged Premier and Minister might have been expected to call together offshore operators with reserves of natural gas on a commercial scale.
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