This video popped up on my YouTube feed, and it is definitely worth the 40 minutes or so to watch. It’s about the earliest history of the oil sands, and concludes with the opening of the first major oil sands plant by Sun Oil Company Ltd., which is now Suncor,...
Estevan Meter had a recent theft from their facility on the east side of Estevan. According to surveillance footage, around 2 a.m. on July 15 a vehicle entered Estevan Meter’s parking lot and pulled up to their compound, where they then cut through the fence to access...
The evening of July 26, I did something that’s become routine for me – check on the status of Alberta’s power grid. I can do this because that province posts minute-by-minute data on the power generation from each and every facility connected to the grid. That...
If you just had your morning coffee in Alberta, it’s unlikely your coffee pot was powered by wind. That’s because at 10:16 a.m. on Wednesday, July 27, Alberta’s fleet of 26 wind farms, supposedly capable of producing 2,269 megawatts, was producing just 22 megawatts,...
ESTEVAN – Things are very busy for Sun Country Well Servicing of Estevan, but the service rig outfit could be busier, if they could find more people. Brad Bennett, vice president of operations, said on July 25, “People are a big issue. Parts are hard to get for...
