Eric Cline’s Squandered: Canada’s Potash Legacy: Windfall profits, economic rent and paying for social services, Part 3
“It is abundantly clear that the division of profits from potash is grossly unbalanced. The province is shortchanging its own treasury and people.”
Eric Cline’s Squandered: Canada’s Potash Legacy: About that royalty review … Part 2
Cline notes that the industry was not making huge profits at the time, and the government agreed to a capital cost allowance of $1.20 for every dollar of capital investment. “Perhaps it was overly generous, and I don’t claim everything I was responsible for in government was perfect. One thing I can claim is that it seemed to work,” he writes.
Eric Cline’s Squandered: Canada’s Potash Legacy, takes a hard look at royalties. Part 1
In late March, 2024, Eric Cline released his book Squandered: Canada’s Potash Legacy. It’s not often that former Saskatchewan resource ministers write books about royalties, so Pipeline Online is dedicating a lot of space to it.
Shocking and refreshing, say Estevan mayor and RM reeve about coal-fired power’s possible revival
The Government of Saskatchewan announcing SaskPower would be looking at refurbishing, instead of shutting down, its coal-fired power generation plants was some of the best news in years for the City of Estevan and the RM of Estevan.
Saskatchewan is looking to rejuvenate coal, not abandon it: in-depth with Minister Jeremy Harrison
If SaskPower carries through with rejuvenating coal, it will save three power plants, two mines, ~1000 jobs and two communities
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