ESTEVAN – When the announcement that coal, Estevan’s primary business, was not going away in 2030, Estevan Mayor Tony Sernick had one of the best sleeps he’d had in a long time. “I had the best sleep probably in January, when I got introduced to the idea,...
In recent days I’ve really been scratching my head, wondering what on earth Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and now Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have been going on about, talking about a pipeline to James Bay. Now I think I...
The timing couldn’t be better for this video, put together by Mack Plovie of Earthmovers Media. Earlier this year he shot a series of videos for Westmoreland Mining at their Estevan and Poplar River mines. This video, published on YouTube on July 20, shows...
ESTEVAN – When your business relies heavily upon the coal-fired power industry, the June 18 announcement that Saskatchewan would be rebuilding its fleet and not shutting it down in four and a half years was a welcome sigh of relief. Bernie...
 If you haven’t been following closely, it would be easy to get confused about the flurry of announcements and projects involving exporting products, including oil, from ports on Hudson Bay. In recent days and weeks there has been discussion of not one, but three...