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...
ESTEVAN – When you walk to the end of the lane of Lori Carr’s acreage south of Estevan, there are several things that dominate the skyline. Beyond the hay bales is a pumpjack and a dragline. And beyond that dragline, you can see Shand Power Station in...
A month to the day after Saskatchewan announces its keeping coal, Alberta wind power generation output fell to 1.4% of nameplate capacity. That was just 80 megawatts out of a nameplate capacity of 5,688 megawatts. That’s according to data from the Alberta...
