It’s come to my attention that I’m having the same conversation over and over again, and only recently have I figured out why. In almost every conversation of consequence I’ve taken part in recently seems to have a common thread. My wife and her co-worker were...
REGINA – In the years after the oil downturn hit in late 2014, the deficit hole in the Saskatchewan budget was typically almost exactly the equal to the decline from previous oil revenues. And now that hole is closing. That’s apparent in the 2022-23 budget tabled by...
REGINA – Back in 2012, at the Williston Basin Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, Scott Tinker, the person who produced the documentary Switch told the conference, “If you truly want to solve the world, solve storage.” Now, ten years later, SaskPower is getting in...
These days, any gas development in this province is almost always from associated gas production – the natural gas that comes up with oil. On March 14, Minister of Energy and Resources Bronwyn Eyre announced two new programs for increasing gas collection. When asked...
REGINA – As the federal government moves to dramatically reduce methane emissions, they are using data to regulate Saskatchewan that is not actually Saskatchewan-specific, and that could be a big problem for this province. Thus, to address that, the provincial...