19 Recommendations for a “Just Transition,” as presented by the federal Natural Resources Committee
These are the 19 recommendations of the committee, presented verbatim as part of the report. The Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois both included dissenting reports. There will be extensive coverage from all the above from Pipeline Online in the coming days.
Flooding shuts down major coal power station, leaving SaskPower scrambling to backfill its output and shed load internally
Heavy rains in the Coronach area Friday night have resulted in the shutdown of the coal-fired Poplar River Power Station, just when high temperatures are putting pressure on SaskPower’s grid to keep everyone’s air conditioning running. The result is a 582 megawatt coal-fired power station went offline, and SaskPower is scrambling to meet demand. One of the things it is doing is internal “load shedding,” reducing power consumption where it can, so that other customers have the power they need.
Cenovus CEO: Without cheap, abundant, affordable energy, life is brutal. Life is short
“I’m really optimistic about this is oil and gas industry really, for two reasons. One is, I think Premier Moe mentioned this, is that without cheap, abundant, affordable energy, life is brutal. Life is short. You know, there’s one thing that First World nations all have in common: they have cheap, reliable, abundant energy. And today, hydrocarbons make up just over 80 per cent of that energy mix.” – Cenovus’s new CEO Jon McKenzie.
Saskatchewan will not meet Net Zero by 2035, but will aim for 2050
Here’s a lot more depth on what was said during Tuesday’s press conference about SaskPower and Saskatchewan’s electrical generating future, and there are additional stories to come as well.
Saskatchewan can’t meet Net Zero by 2035, so we won’t: full press conference video
There’s a lot to unpack here, from plans to continue coal use until 2044, to substantial adoption of nuclear power in the future. We’re still going to build wind and solar, but there’s acknowledgement they can be totally unreliable, and natural gas backup for them is needed.
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