{"id":749418,"date":"2026-06-20T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749418\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:10","slug":"williams-believes-better-churchill-deal-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749418\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Believes Better Churchill Deal Possible"},"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\/jennifer-williams-nl-hydro.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Williams Believes Better Churchill Deal Possible\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams, President &amp; CEO of Newfoundland &amp; Labrador Hydro (VOCM).<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro believes more can be added to the Churchill Falls MOU with Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec, despite previously telling the House of Assembly that last year\u2019s MOU was the \u201cbest deal\u201d for the province.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Williams, who served on the previous MOU\u2019s negotiating panel, is also part of a new negotiation team put in place by the PC government.<\/p>\n<p>Williams says she is focused on securing a deal that is in the \u201cbest interest of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have changed in the last couple of years. We\u2019ve got a new government. The premier is very clear about his expectations for how we approach going forward.  If anybody is unclear, they don\u2019t need to listen very long,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to work with our negotiating team to work forward on what another negotiation might look like and see if we can get something in the best interest of the people of the province.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jennifer Williams, President &amp; CEO of Newfoundland &amp; Labrador Hydro (VOCM). The CEO of Newfoundland and Labrador&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-749418","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\/749418","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=749418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}