A looming and largely ignored mental health crisis threatens Estevan coal families By Craig Johnston: The pending closure of a coal mine can have devastating impacts on the mental health of miners and their families. Many coal families have been in the mines for...
Colorado-based Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan posts daily newsletters and videos on a variety of topic, from wars to geography to trade. And he talks a lot about energy. Zeihan often describes himself as a “greenie, but one that can count.” As such,...
How SaskPower abandoning coal miners could devastate the Estevan economy and doom local economic development efforts The federal government and SaskPower have done their best to kill coal in Estevan. They may yet succeed. Much of the focus is on what will...
SaskPower’s plan to replace clean, reliable and affordable coal-fired power from Estevan’s Boundary Dam with 650 MW of power from the Southwest Power Pool in the U.S. starting in 2027, will not only cost Saskatchewan residents a billion dollars, it will also...
Editor’s note: On Dec. 6, TC Energy president and CEO François Poirier posted this statement on the company’s webpage: Our path to balancing global energy transition and continued energy security creates a maze of challenges. We need to ensure the measures...
