{"id":210407,"date":"2025-09-08T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:31:11","slug":"government-responds-to-concerns-about-mega-project-benefits-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210407\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Responds to Concerns About Mega Project Benefits Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/churchill-falls-govt.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Government Responds to Concerns About Mega Project Benefits Agreements\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government says local benefits agreements will be in place for proposed mega projects related to the Churchill Falls MOU. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/09\/07\/279048\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PC energy critic Lloyd Parrott<\/a> criticized the agreement, saying it only  singles out Gull Island as a project to favour hiring Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. <\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Premier\u2019s Office indicates that any significant construction project in the province will require an environmental assessment. <\/p>\n<p>The premier\u2019s offices says the construction of a second powerhouse at Churchill Falls would require an environmental release before construction can occur, and as part of that process a local benefit and hiring policy will be required before construction can proceed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) The provincial government says local benefits agreements will be in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-210407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115169164356856378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}