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VOCM News Evening Update October 2nd · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Brian Medore. A 19-year-old has been arrested and charged
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  Speaker 1: after a reported altercation in Happy Valley Goose Bay. RCMP
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  Speaker 1: on patrol were approached by someone early Thursday morning who
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  Speaker 1: claimed that they'd been assaulted and threatened with a knife.
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  Speaker 1: The victim suffered minor injuries and did not require medical attention.
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  Speaker 1: Police got a name and description of the suspect and
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  Speaker 1: the accused was found on a nearby trail. Kobe Rich
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  Speaker 1: has been charged with assault with a weapon and uttering
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  Speaker 1: threats and was held to appear in court. He has
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  Speaker 1: since been released on court-imposed conditions and is scheduled to
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  Speaker 1: return in November. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at Five
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  Speaker 1: Wing Goose Bay today to mark the beginning of construction
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  Speaker 1: of a new central heating plant at the base. The
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  Speaker 1: federal government calls the new plant a cornerstone of a
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  Speaker 1: $ 187 million energy performance contract awarded last year and will
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  Speaker 1: move the base off diesel heat and onto the Labrador
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  Speaker 1: electrical grid. The Department of National Defense has secured an
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  Speaker 1: additional 20 megawatts of capacity from Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro.
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  Speaker 1: The project is expected to reduce the base's energy costs
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  Speaker 1: by 77 percent. Construction is expected to be completed by
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  Speaker 1: the end of 2030. G7 nations, including Canada, have agreed
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  Speaker 1: to release 100 million barrels of diesel reserves as the
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  Speaker 1: staple fuel continues to soar in price. Member countries held
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  Speaker 1: an urgent meeting today agreeing to make production more flexible
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  Speaker 1: and release some 100 million barrels of reserve over the
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  Speaker 1: next four months. The meeting followed a call from US
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  Speaker 1: President Trump to have European countries release diesel and threats
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  Speaker 1: to ban the export of American diesel. A former fisheries
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  Speaker 1: minister believes France has a much broader purpose in mind
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  Speaker 1: than just harvesting some crab off Newfoundland. The French government
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  Speaker 1: is unilaterally proposing to launch an exploratory snow crab fishery
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  Speaker 1: on the continental shelf beyond Canada's 200-mile limit. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the first time that Canada and France, including St. Pierre
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  Speaker 1: and Miquelon off the south coast, have disputed jurisdiction. Jerry Byrne,
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  Speaker 1: who did not run in the last election, says Canada
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  Speaker 1: has to do a lot more to protest the actions
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  Speaker 1: of France, who he calls the largest player in the
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  Speaker 1: European Union. In 1987, when the French granted exploratory permits
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  Speaker 1: off Newfoundland, the federal government formally protested within days.
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  Speaker 2: It was a formal process, not an informal process. So
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  Speaker 2: our objection to the France crab proposal has to be
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  Speaker 2: turned into a formal objection. That's not done by the DFO.
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  Speaker 2: That's done by the government of Canada through our Foreign
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  Speaker 2: Affairs Department and through the United Nations and other forums.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Brian Medour.