{"id":814233,"date":"2026-07-20T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:44:11","slug":"wakeham-meeting-with-quebec-premier-on-hydro-development-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814233\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakeham Meeting With Quebec Premier on Hydro Development This Week"},"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\/07\/premier-5.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Wakeham Meeting With Quebec Premier on Hydro Development This Week\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham is set to meet Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette this week to discuss the future of Hydro Development at the Churchill Falls site in Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>Wakeham committed to meeting with the Quebec Premier after the province released a PC-directed review of the MOU between Hydro-Quebec and this province, which concluded that the project is not in the best interests of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is part of a conference of Canadian Premiers in PEI, where meetings are scheduled through Wednesday in Charlottetown.<\/p>\n<p>Fr\u00e9chette told the Canadian Press in June that the MOU \u201cis at risk\u201d if it is not ratified before this fall\u2019s elections in Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News) Premier Tony Wakeham is set to meet Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-814233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814233","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=814233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}