Brian Zinchuk: Saskatchewan’s “Keep the Lights On” legislative session comes to an end
The 2022-23 Saskatchewan legislative session could rightly be called the “Keep the lights on” session. That’s because the very first bill brought up was the Saskatchewan First Act, whose stated purpose was to re-assert provincial control over power generation (and its...
Brian Zinchuk: How a new natural gas power plant in Saskatchewan could lead to a national unity crisis
There are major events and projects happening in Saskatchewan that, when you sum it all up, will have profound impacts not only on the Saskatchewan economy, but national unity. We are rapidly coming to a point where an irresistible force – federal greenhouse...
Wind and Solar Fail: We are throwing away what we know works, for something we know does not
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. Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk, of Estevan, speaks about how wind and solar power generation frequently totally collapse, and can never be truly relied upon to power our 21st century economy.
Jim Warren, Part 2: Big Green’s big vulnerabilities
The first column in this series described the masterfully executed campaign waged by environmental organizations in opposition to Alberta’s oil sands. In this column we’ll see that environmental organizations, despite the considerable resources they command and past success, are not omnipotent. ENGOs have baked-in vulnerabilities that can be successfully exploited provided their opponents do the requisite opposition research.
Brian Zinchuk: How does an ice age start? With one snowflake
Editor’s note: I originally wrote this column in mid-April 10 years ago, at the tail end of a winter that never seemed to end. Funny how things haven’t changed that much since then, have they? Wasn’t the world supposed to warm up in the meantime? Anyhow – take the dates in that context. Also, looking at what Lake Tahoe has been getting, they might be living what I describe here, for real.
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