The Opposition is calling for negotiations on the MOU with Hydro Quebec on the expansion of hydro development in Labrador until discussions surrounding a national energy corridor “becomes clear.”

Leader Tony Wakeham says the creation of an energy corridor could create opportunities for Newfoundland and Labrador. But entering into a decades-long agreement with Quebec on the Upper Churchill and Gull Island could severely limit the province’s flexibility at a critical time.

The governments of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador signed an MOU last year with the deadline to cement the deal less than year away. Wakeham believes this province left money on the table in that deal.

That agreement rewrites the 1969 lopsided deal on the Upper Churchill.

“Perhaps we’re not getting near the value of the resource that we ought to be getting. And, of course, it never went to a review by a panel of independent experts as we had asked for,” says Wakeham.