MEADOW LAKE – SaskPower is exploring the potential to build a 55-megawatt (MW) natural gas facility in the Meadow Lake area, replacing an existing power plant that has reached end of life, the Crown corporation said in an Nov. 12 release. According to...
It turns out people outside our borders are noticing what’s going on in Saskatchewan when it comes to nuclear and coal-fired power generation. Pipeline Online editor Brian Zinchuk appeared on the Energy Realities Podcast on Monday, Nov. 10, explaining just what...
Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald split in two and sunk in the eastern end of Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s famous song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been a haunting tale ever since. I once asked my late...
There’s been major developments this year in the mining portion of the energy sector. Saskatchewan is going to refurbish its coal fleet instead of shutting it down in four years. Major things are happening on the rollout of new nuclear reactors, meaning more...
The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) just posted this video on “Life on a Drilling Rig.” It’s a really good short video explaining the basics of what each rig hand does on a crew. It’s shot on Bonanza Rig 7, and looks almost...
