Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons says Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro isn’t providing a handout by buying Corner Brook Pulp and Paper’s electricity from Deer Lake Power. Hydro is buying power at 27.5 cents per kilowatt hour — nearly double the average domestic electricity rate — and it doesn’t need it to supply customers. ..But Parsons said they’re a very stable backup when they have problems elsewhere,” Parsons said. “Yes the rate is high, but it’s what you would pay for this kind of thing. So I think that yes, it is important that our government supports the mill in various ways, but I think it’s a mischaracterization to say this is a handout.” …”The paper industry is changing, and the mill needs change to remain current. And this is one of the ways in which they can remain current,” Goulding said. …Kruger employs 425 people with a deep trickle-down effect.