Brian Zinchuk: Shrinkflation strikes again

I didn’t realize ice melter salt needed a padding of air like potato chips in a bag. After all, it’s salt. So you should be able to pack it right full, devoid of air, right? After all, that’s what they do when you buy it in bags. But maybe not, at least when you buy...

Saskatchewan saw zero wind power for 17 hours over two days

It turns out that while Alberta had two days where grid-scale wind power generation output fell to zero for minutes, in Saskatchewan, it was for hours. Seventeen hours, in total. As Pipeline Online previously reported, on Jan. 2, Alberta’s fleet of 50 wind farms...

Royal Helium’s unsecured creditors can expect diddly-squat

  Royal Helium Ltd.’s unsecured creditors can expect to receive precisely zero, according to bankruptcy documents received by Pipeline Online on Jan. 2. But while those creditors are left holding the bag, Royal’s properties are being taken over by Keranic...