Capital Power Corp. says it’s holding out for an opportunity to power a large-scale data centre at its Genesee Generating Station, but Alberta’s grid operator is not currently making enough electrical connection capacity available for the size of project...
Precision Drilling Corp. says the outlook for its business is improving enough for it to reverse cuts to its capital spending program it had made amid economic uncertainty earlier this year — and further increase it. “While macro uncertainties persist, customer...
The fatal flaw of the Westinghouse Electric Company eVinci microreactor isn’t its costly fuel, it’s the back end logistics. TLDR: How do you get a short school bus sized 15 ton spent eVinci core full of hot, highly radioactive spent fuel from a...
ESTEVAN – When the announcement that coal, Estevan’s primary business, was not going away in 2030, Estevan Mayor Tony Sernick had one of the best sleeps he’d had in a long time. “I had the best sleep probably in January, when I got introduced to the idea,...
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...
