Fog Blog Ridiculog:

GOVERNMENT FLIP FLOP!! Like most New Brunswick governments, the Brian Gallant Liberal government admonished us to support local and support NB business to boost the economy and keep our businesses and enterprises here viable! Now comes the recent announcement of NB Power , a provincial corporation, abandoning a NB business that had a contract for power poles for 40 years and go out of province....NB Power's decision to end a 40-year, multimillion-dollar partnership with a New Brunswick company to purchase its power poles was exempt from the usual tendering process and did not necessarily choose the lowest bidder. On Monday night, NB Power said the utility expects "to save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually depending on the number of poles purchased." "The amount of the new contract – how much we will spend on poles, will only be known when we begin buying new poles from Stella Jones," wrote Marc Belliveau, spokesperson for NB Power. According to the province's General Procurement Act, NB Power is exempt from having to publicly tender "those specialized components, materials, and services that relate specifically to the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity." NB Power did confirm the contract to purchase between 6,000 and 8,000 power poles a year from Marwood has been valued at $2.5 million dollars annually. I understand when rules permit you to do business with whoever you want and also save money in the long run but according to the report the savings aren't big and Marwood will have to look to municipal contracts to maintain their business and absorb the loss......Support local and stay off the next Ridiculog!!