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VOCM News Mid-day Update August 28th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update. I'm Zach Power.
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  Speaker 1: Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says it's his belief that the
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  Speaker 1: Betanor project will get the green light and that Equinor's
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  Speaker 1: final investment decision will be approved. The company posits plans
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  Speaker 1: for deep-sea oil development in 2023 to find a more
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  Speaker 1: economic way forward. Since then, British partner BP has pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of the $ 14 billion project, leaving Equinor as the
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  Speaker 1: sole owner. A final decision on the project is expected
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  Speaker 1: sometime early next year, but Minister Parrott, who is back
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  Speaker 1: from an oil show in Norway, believes that it will
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: It is my honest belief that the Beta Nord project
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  Speaker 2: will move ahead 100%.
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  Speaker 1: The province's offshore oil regulator has issued two calls for
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  Speaker 1: nominations for parcels of land off eastern Newfoundland, including the
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  Speaker 1: Jeanne d'Arc region, and off Labrador. After a review of
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  Speaker 1: submissions received from the calls for nominations, the regulator will
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  Speaker 1: determine whether it will proceed with the bidding process. Calls
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  Speaker 1: for bids would be announced in early 2027 and close
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  Speaker 1: in November of 2027, with licenses awarded to successful bidders
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  Speaker 1: in early 2028. A new political survey conducted by La
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  Speaker 1: Presse shows that the governing coalition Avenir Quebec, or the CAAC,
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  Speaker 1: which had been languishing in the polls, has surged in
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  Speaker 1: popularity in a virtual tie with the Parti de l' Équipe
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  Speaker 1: or the BQ. Ottawa bureau chief for La Presse, Jolene Bellavance,
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  Speaker 1: says that it's shocking as a result just one day
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  Speaker 1: into the provincial election in Quebec. He says that the
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  Speaker 1: numbers show that the CAC are rising from the dead.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers were pretty gloom and doom for the CAC
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  Speaker 2: in Quebec, and now... We did have a survey, about 1,000 people,
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  Speaker 2: that shows that it's a neck-and-neck race now between the
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  Speaker 2: Parti Québécois and the Coalition Avenir Québec. The latest numbers
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  Speaker 2: show that the Parti Québécois is still leading with 28%,
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  Speaker 2: and the Coalition Avenir Québec is at 27%, and the
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  Speaker 2: Liberal Party at 20%. For the CAC, that's a jump
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  Speaker 2: of 7 points in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: The Nature Conservancy of Canada has established a new 1,600-hectare
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  Speaker 1: nature reserve, at Beothuk Lake. The organization made the announcement
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  Speaker 1: during an event at Bowering Park in St. John's yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The reserve has been established through tech resources in the
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  Speaker 1: federal government. It covers both sides of the Exploit River
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  Speaker 1: to the southwest of Millertown and extends along the west
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  Speaker 1: as well as the south shore of Beothuk Lake. The
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  Speaker 1: protected area includes Atlantic salmon habitat, porial forest, wetlands, and
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  Speaker 1: water resources. Millertown Mayor Fiona Humber says that she's very
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  Speaker 1: excited about the area, but does acknowledge that residents have
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  Speaker 1: to do their part and consultation sessions are still to come.
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  Speaker 3: They're just mostly wondering what's going on with anything to
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  Speaker 3: do with Beothuk culture in the area. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people that care a lot about it and they
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  Speaker 3: want to know what's happening. And they want to know
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  Speaker 3: if their everyday activities are going to be impacted, which
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  Speaker 3: we're happy to say that it should not be impacted
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  Speaker 3: by this project at all, except in positive ways, of course.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Zach Power.