{"id":727763,"date":"2026-06-10T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:52:09","slug":"wakeham-slams-liberals-over-political-attacks-on-churchill-falls-panel-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727763\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakeham Slams Liberals Over \u2018Political Attacks\u2019 on Churchill Falls Panel Appointments"},"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\/06\/wakeham-and-hutton.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Wakeham Slams Liberals Over 'Political Attacks' on Churchill Falls Panel Appointments\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham is slamming the opposition Liberals after they criticized the appointment of three people to the Churchill Falls Negotiation Review Panel.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Critic Fred Hutton <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/06\/09\/opposition-questions-make-up-of-churchill-falls-oversight-committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questioned<\/a> the trio\u2019s role in the process, saying Julia Mullaley, Dan Levert and Mike Jardine all lack the required expertise in the energy market and energy regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Leader John Hogan cited concerns about some members\u2019 involvement in the Muskrat Falls deal over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wakeham says the Liberals are too focused on attacking people rather than the issue itself, and that their collective expertise covers the \u201cfull range of skills required\u201d to do their work.<\/p>\n<p>He says the trio should be able to \u201cprovide their professional advice and judgment without being subjected to political attacks,\u201d because it may be \u201cinconvenient\u201d to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations on the MOU are expected to begin in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham is slamming the opposition Liberals after they criticized the appointment of three people to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-727763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727763","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=727763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}