Although it's not entirely clear how this deal differs from the one they announced in September, SNC-Lavalin's deal to build natural gas fired power stations in U.S.-occupied Iraq is in the news again. In the original release it was reported as an $85 million deal to install gas turbines in Hilla. Now, it's $170 million for power stations in both Hilla and Karbala, south of Baghdad. In another report, SNC-Lavalin spokesperson Leslie Quinton says SNC only gets a $30 million cut of the $170 million, and that the deal, while its been announced by the Iraqi quisling government, has not yet been signed. We'll try and sort through this and will update developments accordingly...
- In other (obscure) Canada and Iraq news this week, The Leaf Chronicle, reporting on news pertaining to Fort Campbell, Tennessee (the U.S. Empire's "premier power projection platform"), writes, "From the desert sands of Iraq to the chilling conditions of Goose Bay, Canada, to the comforting clouds of Clarksville 202 soldiers from the 591st and 511th Engineer Companies returned." For all the time we've spent researching Canadian involvement in/around Iraq, we aren't aware of the extent to which the U.S. war machine has made use of Goose Bay as a transit (...) point; enquiring minds surely want to know...