{"id":752200,"date":"2026-06-21T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:13:14","slug":"hydro-ceo-denies-pressure-from-quebec-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752200\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro CEO Denies Pressure From Qu\u00e9bec Officials"},"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\/jenn-williams.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Hydro CEO Denies Pressure From Qu\u00e9bec Officials\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams, President and CEO Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro says she isn\u2019t feeling pressured by Quebec to rush a new hydro development deal.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports out of Quebec suggest that a new MOU on Churchill Falls could be reached by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>A provincial election must be held in Quebec this fall, and polls show that the governing Coalition Avenir is in trouble. <\/p>\n<p>Despite what that might mean, Jennifer Williams says she isn\u2019t feeling the heat. She notes her team has been preparing as much as possible before each round of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will echo what the Premier says \u2013 he\u2019s not really feeling any pressure and we\u2019re not feeling any pressure. However, we are obviously participating actively in conversations and we are readying ourselves with all the data, all the information, all the analysis possible. So we are meeting the moment, but we\u2019re not feeling pressure by the timeline,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jennifer Williams, President and CEO Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (VOCM News) The CEO of Newfoundland and Labrador&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-752200","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\/752200","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=752200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}