REGINA, WASHINGTON – In 2011, the Government of Saskatchewan and SaskPower made the decision to go ahead with post-combustion carbon capture on Boundary Dam Unit 3. By 2014, a few months delayed and a few hundred million over budget, the $1.6 billion project was...
Major project could soon run afoul of impending federal greenhouse gas emissions regulations, but Saskatchewan needs to keep the lights on, and power its mines REGINA, LANIGAN – You might not have noticed it, but last week SaskPower made known it is intent on...
Part of the energy transition, playing out in Western Canada, is the elimination of baseload coal-fired power generation, and the implementation of highly intermittent solar and wind power generation. This is Part 2 of a presentation to the ratepayers of the RM of...
Clean Electricity Standard unrealistic and impossible for Saskatchewan, says premier REGINA – On May 2, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe drew a line in the sand, or perhaps prairie topsoil, on federal climate change initiatives, which, if brought to fruition,...
REGINA – The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic was shocking for many reasons, and to many industries. One of those initially hit hardest was oil and gas. While shutdowns affected everything from restaurants to retail stores, not many saw the price of their...
ESTEVAN – SaskPower held an open house in Estevan the evening of March 23 and morning of March 24. Several SaskPower personnel were on hand to answer questions and discuss the issues on display, but those were not all the issues at hand. Approximately 50 people showed...
