There was a rhythm to my life inside a coal-fired power plant in southeast Saskatchewan. I could hear it before I fully understood it: the steady hum of rotating equipment, the distant, sighing hiss of high-pressure steam, the smell of water treatment and the...
There have been many recent headlines concerning global conflict, economics and energy security. One of the larger conversations receiving comparatively little attention, however, concerns the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Created in 1975 following...
Round 1: Dr. Brett Dolter’s piece for the C.D. Howe Institute on the cost of coal refurbishment Round 2: Pipeline Online’s story and analysis on said piece Round 3: Dr. Dolter’s rebuttal of said analysis, seen here Editor’s note: Dr....
Over the past number of weeks, the subject of provincial royalties has once again entered into public debate. The discussion remains fixed along a familiar divide: those who want better returns, and those who want to protect the investment environment. Both the...
Nutrien’s Allan, SK, potash mine in April, 2025. Photo by Brian Zinchuk By Erin Weir, Former NDP MP & Consulting Economist, Silo Strategy Published as a policy paper by the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina....
