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Estevan-Big Muddy MLA Lori Carr. Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
On Tuesday, April 28, Estevan-Big Muddy MLA and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health made the following statement in the Legislature regarding the NDP’s Grid and Growth Plan 2026 and its impact on coal workers in her consituency. Notably, Boundary Dam Power Station, Shand Power Station and the Westmoreland Estevan Mine fall within her riding.
Effect of Power Generation Plan on Workers Hon. Lori Carr: — Mr. Speaker, this week workers in southern Saskatchewan sent a clear message about the NDP’s [New Democratic Party] so-called Grid and Growth Plan. And spoiler alert: it wasn’t supportive. Members of IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] 2067, the very people who power our province, are openly questioning a plan that risks their jobs, their communities, and their future. Their message is simple: come to Estevan and Coronach and explain how this plan replaces what it shuts down.
Ken Hoste, assistant business manager of IBEW 2067 said, and I quote: “There’s been a lot of communication about this plan, but the people they’re not communicating with about their new plan are the people in Estevan and Coronach that actually have some skin in this game with this. To us this is very real. This is people who, if this plan came to fruition, are probably losing their livelihoods.”
That’s the problem, Mr. Speaker. The NDP talks about transition but offers no credible path for the families who depend on these jobs, no certainty for the workers, and no real plan to keep the lights on affordably.
We will continue to stand with our workers, protect reliable power, protect their livelihoods, and ensure decisions are grounded in energy security, reliability, affordability, and reality — not ideology. On behalf of our government, I want to say thank you to the folks down in Estevan and Coronach and the good people of IBEW 2067 for all of the work that they do, Mr. Speaker.
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