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Garden Hill was once promoted as Newfoundland’s next energy frontier — a project that promised jobs, prosperity, and renewal. Instead, it collapsed into rusting tanks and broken promises, leaving behind a scar rather than a legacy. Today, the Environmental Transparency Committee reframes the site as a symbol of heritage and tourism, invoking ancestors and lighthouses to cover decades of failure with the language of pride. This article traces how overlapping interests in Enegi, Investcan, Town of Cape St. George and FFTNL left their mark, how governance capture ensured no accountability, and how even the fence was only repaired once optics demanded it. Garden Hill is not renewal — it is the carousel turning again, with the same interested parties still guiding the ride. Read More...

Vanishing Evidence: The 404 Strategy of Selective Activism exposes how inconvenient truths in Newfoundland activism are erased — sometimes through outright deletion, sometimes through strategic silence. Using the Environmental Transparency Committee’s August 2025 post about quarry water use as a case study, the article shows how selective outrage distracts from bigger threats like fracking, despite leaders’ political, bureaucratic, and financial ties to the energy sector. From deleted posts and suppressed petitions to institutional 404s, the piece demonstrates how vanishing evidence shapes consensus, silences dissent, and reinforces hidden loyalties. Read More...