

Lithium in SK, Part 22: Arizona Lithium is running its pilot plant for Torquay project, elaborates on commercialization plans for 2025
Three facilities, each producing approximately 2,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate per year, with the first one going into production in the first half of 2025.
Those were some of the key points in a zoom call Arizona Lithium had with its investors on Nov. 9.

Saskatchewan funds its first microreactor, the Westinghouse eVinci, for the SRC
Premier Scott Moe with an eVinci mockup. Saskatchewan Research Council. SASKATOON – On Nov. 27 Premier Scott Moe announced $80 million for the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) to pursue the demonstration of a microreactor in Saskatchewan. SRC will apply the...

AtkinsRealis announces CANDU Monark 1000 megawatt reactor
AtkinsRéalis launched the CANDU MONARK reactor on Nov. 28, a 1000 megawatt design. AtkinsRéalis MONTREAL - While much of the world is talking about small modular reactors, the quintessential Canadian nuclear reactor design is going large – its largest yet. There’s a...

Coastal GasLink pipeline mechanically complete before year-end deadline
The company announced in October that the installation of the pipe was finished, while mechanical completion means the end of construction, successful hydrotesting of the full 670-kilometre line and engineering reviews.

Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s priorities and challenges ahead of COP28
Canada’s image at the world’s signature climate negotiations could be complicated by infighting, some observers fear, as two of the federal government’s ardent critics at the provincial level look to capture attention at the United Nations climate summit known as COP28.
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Conservative motion seeks support to order senators to pass carbon pricing bill
The Conservatives dialed up the pressure on the Senate on Tuesday to vote in favour of a carbon-pricing bill, all the while accusing the Liberals of trying to intimidate senators into delaying the bill.

Ottawa was always flexible on clean-energy rules, despite Alberta concerns: Wilkinson
Well before Alberta Premier Danielle Smith started talking about the Sovereignty Act, Ottawa was already taking steps to address the province’s concerns about being forced to prematurely shut down its natural gas power plants, says federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.

Now they’re really, really done. Enbridge wraps final right of way restoration on Line 3 replacement
Four years after the major work wrapped up, the last of the reseeding took place in October The official record shows that construction of the Canadian portion of Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Program (L3RP) was completed more than four years ago and that the new...

Deficit-slaying former SK NDP finance minister and former SaskEnergy CEO among Sask First Act tribunal members
In what is turning into a tag-team match fighting the proposed federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), Alberta just tagged out and Saskatchewan is going into the ring.
On Monday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked her province’s Sovereignty Act to fight the CER. On Tuesday, it was Saskatchewan’s turn, making initial use of the Saskatchewan First Act, passed a year ago, and now being implemented for the first time.

Alberta’s Danielle Smith invokes Sovereignty Act over Clean Electricity Regulations
EDMONTON - On Nov. 27, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked her province’s Sovereignty Act, essentially to tell the federal government where to go and how to get there when it comes to generating electrical power. The Liberal federal government is seeking to...
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Pathways Alliance increasingly confident $16.5B carbon capture project will go ahead
The oilsands industry group that has proposed building what would be one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects says it is more confident than ever it will go ahead with construction.

Smith invokes sovereignty act on green electricity, concedes it’s for symbolic effect
Premier Danielle Smith invoked Alberta’s sovereignty act on Monday to implement new measures in her fight against Ottawa’s looming clean electricity rules while conceding she didn’t need the act to put the changes in place.

CAOEC 2023 State of the Industry: 481 more wells expected in 2024
The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) held its 2023 State of the Industry event on Nov. 24 in Calgary. The CAOEC's 2023/24 Drilling and Service Rig Forecast and the 2023 State of the Industry Report is as follows: Projected 2024 wells drilled: 6,229 –...

Brian Crossman: Farewell to Gormley, and hello to Bray
I’d like to close by thanking Mr. John Gormley for his years of service to the people of Saskatchewan, and for giving us a place to meet and a radio to yell at on occasion. It was always interesting and at times, a whole lot of fun. We in the “patch” have always listened to you. The men and women of the industry were always happy you paid attention to us and genuinely cared about our contributions to the province. I am confident that Evan will do the same, and the oilpatch will be “listening” with great interest.

Brian Zinchuk: Peter Prebble says Sask’s emissions are “way, way out of line with the global community.” Whose fault is that?
if Prebble had been an advocate instead of an enemy of nuclear, if he fought for it instead of being the principle opponent, and convinced others within the NDP of the same, maybe Saskatchewan would have built reactors under the Calvert administration.
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Vietnam’s plan for spending $15.5 billion for its clean energy transition to be announced at COP28
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A plan for how Vietnam will spend $15.5 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been finalized and will be announced at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai next week.

Oil and gas well drillers want federal funding to help industry decarbonize
Canada’s oil and gas well drilling sector is lobbying for a piece of the tax credit pie when it comes to decarbonization.

Feds aimed secret cybersecurity briefing at energy sector executives: memo
Federal security officials have been briefing leaders of major energy and utility firms on cyberthreats, one element of a concerted government effort to underscore the serious risks to the sector.

What the Globe and Mail left out in its story on grid-scale batteries in Alberta
The Globe and Mail wrote a piece about grid-scale batteries in Alberta, highlighting Enfinite, which has built a fleet of 20-megawatt grid-scale batteries across the province. However, there’s a lot that the story left out, like the fact those very expensive batteries provide only a few minutes of power each month.

On Thursday, Alberta wind power had a hangover and the sun didn’t come out to play
When the sun is highest in the sky, solar power generation is supposed to be at its peak. That’s the idea, anyway. Reality is sometimes different, as at noon on Thursday, Nov. 23, solar power generation in Alberta was producing just 10 per cent of its nameplate capacity.
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Steven Guilbeault cheers IEA report which says “no new long-lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are needed”
“In that scenario, declines in demand are sufficiently steep that no new long-lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are needed. Some existing oil and gas production would even need to be shut in.”

Frontier Centre for Public Policy: Our Economy and Our Future
David Leis of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy speaks to Prof. William Watson, opinion editor for the Financial Post, about "Our Economy and Our Future." It's part of the FCPP's Leaders on the Frontier series of podcasts. "I'm worried about the 1970s experience...

B.C. minister’s memo on ‘big and shiny’ affordability plan lands in Opposition hands
A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a “big and shiny” affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party.

Manitoba introduces bill to temporarily lift provincial tax on fuel
The Manitoba government introduced a bill Thursday to suspend the province’s fuel tax for six months, and possibly longer.

Ontario funding projects aimed at using hydrogen to power electricity grid
Ontario is putting nearly $6 million toward nine projects aimed at making use of hydrogen to power the province’s electricity grid.