Page M12 June 6, 1990. This Week LOVE & MARRIAGE - FROM PAGE 3 ship — romance’s first blush to mature commitment — Quinby puts it even more simply. “I knew a woman who told me that when she was in the first stage, the meeting and falling in love, it was like a reverse sleeping-beauty syndrome. The prince kissed her and she went to sleep. People get excited and shut down their brains. They aren’t realistic about what’s going on, they think \they know the other person and they don't. They move in together, or get married, and are rudely surprised.” If they can afford his $70/ hour fee, sur- prised lovers may seek out Quinby’s services. Or they may decide to leave things as they are — an action Slavik says is “deciding that things are as you like them.” Perhaps people leave the relationship to form another: unfor- tunately, Statistics Canada reports that two- thirds of second mariages end in divorce. 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EAST "Why go anywhere else” HILLSIDE ‘FUTURE WATCH * He'll choose Newfoundland over Quebec anadians have recently been told that to keep the country together we have to ' decide if we would rather have Newfoun- dland stay or Quebec. I choose Newfoun- dland. Not for the sentimental reasons upon which most Canadians decide their fate but on economic grounds. Quebec has been supported by the rest of Canada, during the last decade alone, to the tune of $100 billion dollars. Newfoundland has also been supported but to a much lesser extent. However, in the future Newfoundland might become the richest province. I like the odds. On October 13, 1966 New- foundland signed a 65 year agreement (containing exten- sion options) with Quebec to sell them almost all the hydro power generated by Newfoun- dland at their Labrador Falls generating plant. The amounts were gargantuan. The price was minuscule, just three mills per KWH in 1977. At the time of signing New- foundland didn’t have any choice. First, they needed the money. Second, the technolo- gy of the day forced them to sell to Quebec because there was no known way to export that power elsewhere without going through Quebec and Quebec wouldn't allow that. In the intervening years the retail price of electricity has multiplied a dozen times. Quebec still buys Newfoun- dland electricity at a price that decreases not increases as time goes by! Quebec sells it at today’s current market rates. That increases as the years fly by. Quebec refuses to renegotiate the deal. The agreement (with acquired op- tions) ends in the year 2081. Quebec realizes that when the contract term runs out in the year 2081 they will have to pay a little bit more for Newfoundland power but not anywhere near current mar- ket rates. What choice does Newfoundland have? Sell to Quebec or let it go to waste. Technology threatens to change not only the rules, but the game itself. It soon may pay Newfoundland to leave Canada. As a ‘newly- independent” country New- foundland could disown previ- ous agreements signed as a Canadian province and do what they want with their power. Cut Quebec off, in ef- fect. A recent proposal in Iceland calls for the transmission of electrical power from that wa- ter power-rich country to Scotland via a newly-designed underwater power cable with a carrying capacity never known before. Iceland would sell to power-short Britain at current market rates, less a substantial discount for the volume purchased. The price would still be considerably cheaper than if Britain had to produce the power itself via gas, oil, coal or nuclear- powered sources. The same techniques could offer Newfoundland the same opportunity. Undersea cable 2 DEIOMOrow . wiieit By FRANK OGDEN transmission across Cabot 2 Straight to Nova Scotia, then through the provincial power grid to Yarmouth with anoth- er short undersea link to the brown-out prone U.S. North- east, would allow the power to be sold at top U.S. dollar. The power-transmission route ‘could even have a backup route via New Brunswick to Bangor, Maine. Naturally, Newfoundland would pay a routing fee for the use of transmission lines but that would be small compared to the selling price. And it would also contribute to the econo- my of these Atlantic provine- 1 es. The story does not end here. A test program in aviation has transmitted electricity in the form of micro-waves from the ground to an airplane in flight. An airplane carrying no fuel. An airplane with an electric motor! Electricity that can be directed upwards can also be directed horizontally. If you can zap power to turn on the TV from a remote hand-held channel selector why can’t Newfoundland send power in that fashion across the barren northern straits @ between Labrador and New- foundland? Routed through Newfoundland such power could be beamed to Nova Sco- tia. On the way, Newfoun- dland could offer cheap power to that province and New Brunswick as an alternate method of payment for using their transmission lines car- rying Newfie power to Ameri- ca. The Maritimes may want to join Newfoundland? Today, technology sets the rules — and breaks the rules. It also can have devastating political effects. Yes, I choose Newfoun-@ dland. I like the opportunity and the odds. ead