{"id":670941,"date":"2026-05-15T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/670941\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:14:11","slug":"province-holding-off-on-comments-related-to-ottawas-energy-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/670941\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Holding Off on Comments Related to Ottawa\u2019s Energy Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/st-johns-confederation-building-sign-3.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Holding Off on Comments Related to Ottawa's Energy Plans\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government is aware of Ottawa\u2019s plans to double Canada\u2019s electricity grid capacity by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy says it is in routine contact with the federal government on \u201cmultiple important issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister yesterday indicated that Ottawa will offer a refundable tax credit as an incentive for Quebec to accelerate its $145 billion hydro expansion plans<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government is reserving comment on the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement until the public release of the review panel\u2019s report this coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/opposition-liberal-leader-john-hogan-march-18-2026.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/opposition-liberal-leader-john-hogan-march-18-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-294631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal Leader John Hogan (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The opposition calls Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s plans to double Canada\u2019s electricity grid by 2050, a \u201ctimely opportunity\u201d for the province to continue negotiations with Hydro Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Leader John Hogan discussed the matter with the Prime Minister while serving as premier last year.<\/p>\n<p>He says Carney \u201cunderstood the value\u201d of the natural resource \u201cand the partnership with Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hogan is encouraging Premier Tony Wakeham to continue negotiations with Hydro Quebec, and says advancing the project \u201cwould open the door for meaningful federal contributions to a shovel ready project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The provincial government is aware of Ottawa\u2019s plans to double Canada\u2019s electricity grid capacity by 2050. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-670941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}