The project is years overdue and its costs have ballooned to $13.4 billion, up from the estimated $7.4 billion, including financing costs, when it was sanctioned
Muskrat Falls has eaten away at provincial budgets and resources. Its mounting costs prompted a $5.2-billion bailout last year from Ottawa. It flooded Indigenous lands and threatens to contaminate hunting grounds in Labrador. And a public inquiry that began in 2018 concluded the government failed its people in pushing it through.“It’s really a disgrace of some magnitude,” said Dennis Browne, a lawyer who was among a group formed in 2012 to oppose the project.
“This is truly a significant day in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador as we prepare to write the next chapter in our province’s future,” said then-premier Kathy Dunderdale in the news release issued by the Progressive Conservative government at the time. But the software operating the line from Labrador to Newfoundland, called the Labrador-Island Link, has been plagued with problems and it’s not clear when they might be solved.
Journalist Ashley Fitzpatrick is writing a book about Muskrat Falls, and she covered its development and the public inquiry into its failures for the Telegram newspaper. Fitzpatrick said anyone wanting to launch big energy projects now will have to win over a suspicious and untrusting public. “The public here have been through basically a traumatic experience,” she said.
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