What the Globe and Mail left out in its story on grid-scale batteries in Alberta
The Globe and Mail wrote a piece about grid-scale batteries in Alberta, highlighting Enfinite, which has built a fleet of 20-megawatt grid-scale batteries across the province. However, there’s a lot that the story left out, like the fact those very expensive batteries provide only a few minutes of power each month.
On Thursday, Alberta wind power had a hangover and the sun didn’t come out to play
When the sun is highest in the sky, solar power generation is supposed to be at its peak. That’s the idea, anyway. Reality is sometimes different, as at noon on Thursday, Nov. 23, solar power generation in Alberta was producing just 10 per cent of its nameplate capacity.
Steven Guilbeault cheers IEA report which says “no new long-lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are needed”
“In that scenario, declines in demand are sufficiently steep that no new long-lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are needed. Some existing oil and gas production would even need to be shut in.”
Frontier Centre for Public Policy: Our Economy and Our Future
David Leis of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy speaks to Prof. William Watson, opinion editor for the Financial Post, about "Our Economy and Our Future." It's part of the FCPP's Leaders on the Frontier series of podcasts. "I'm worried about the 1970s experience...
B.C. minister’s memo on ‘big and shiny’ affordability plan lands in Opposition hands
A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a “big and shiny” affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party.
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Manitoba introduces bill to temporarily lift provincial tax on fuel
The Manitoba government introduced a bill Thursday to suspend the province’s fuel tax for six months, and possibly longer.
Ontario funding projects aimed at using hydrogen to power electricity grid
Ontario is putting nearly $6 million toward nine projects aimed at making use of hydrogen to power the province’s electricity grid.
Alberta now has 44 wind farms, and Wednesday night they collectively produced next to no power
These low output numbers are despite substantial growth in both wind and solar power nameplate capacity. In recent months Alberta’s wind capacity grew from 3,618 megawatts to 4,410, an increase of 802 megawatts. That’s an increase of 22 per cent capacity in just a few months. And yet all those additional nameplate megawatts didn’t amount to a hill of beans when the wind decided not to blow across all of southern Alberta, as typically happens in these scenarios which Pipeline Online has reported on no less than 20 times in the last two years.
Police, parliamentary security probing threat over carbon-pricing bill: Senate leader
Two members of the Independent Senators Group say police and parliamentary security are investigating a threat that forced one of them to leave her home last weekend after a social media post blasted members of the upper chamber for their position on a carbon-pricing bill for farmers.
B.C. opposition parties heat up climate debate with attacks on NDP’s plans
Climate change is becoming a hot-button political issue in British Columbia with opposition parties launching election-style attacks on the New Democrat government’s clean climate policies.
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Feds promise long-awaited Indigenous loan guarantee program, but offer few details
The “next steps” for a long-awaited Indigenous loan guarantee program will be announced in next year’s federal budget, the Liberal government promised in its fall economic statement on Tuesday.
But industry groups and Indigenous leaders are still waiting for details on whether the program, which the fiscal update said would help communities invest in the natural resource sector, will facilitate equity ownership in oil and gas projects.
Editorial: Ottawa, take your journalism subsidy and shove it!
As my own boss, I can tell you, Pipeline Online does not accept any federal subsidies, not will it apply for any.
Which of the other media will say the same?
Only eight rigs drilling for oil in southeast Saskatchewan: drilling rig report
Drilling activity in Saskatchewan on Nov. 21 was notably lower in three regions, and up a bit in the fourth.
NexGen Energy rings the bell a the Nye York Stock Exchange
NexGen Energy, a junior uranium company operating in Saskatchewan, rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
Feds set aside $7B from Canada Growth Fund for carbon-price contract guarantees
Almost half of the Canada Growth Fund for clean technology investments will be allocated to special contracts intended to give companies the confidence they need to make major investments to lower their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Search is on for pipeline leak after as much as 1.1 million gallons of oil sullies Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Federal appeals court upholds judge’s dismissal of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters’ lawsuit
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a federal judge’s 2021 decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, who alleged law enforcement officers used excessive force during a clash in 2016.
Feds to appeal court ruling that struck down cabinet order labelling plastics toxic
The designation of toxicity is necessary for the government to regulate substances, however, so without it the federal regulations would have to be rolled back.
Guilbeault said he’s determined to make sure that doesn’t happen.
“It just isn’t possible” – SaskPower Minister in-depth response to Clean Electricity Regulations
On Nov. 2, the Province of Saskatchewan and SaskPower made their submissions to the federal government regarding the proposed Clean Electricity Regulations, which seek to drive Canada to have “Net Zero by 2035” greenhouse gas emissions from power generation.
On Nov. 21, Minister of Crown Investments Corporation (which includes SaskPower and SaskEnergy) Dustin Duncan publicly released the province’s response. Here is his in-depth response:
Saskatchewan response to the Clean Electricity Regulations: Unaffordable, unconstitutional and unobtainable
The federal plan is expected to cost approximately $40 billion in our province alone from now until 2035. The CER represents another concerning example of federal jurisdictional overreach. Saskatchewan’s electrical grid took 90 years to build. If the draft CER becomes law in 2025, as proposed, we would have to (re)construct over 100 per cent of our publicly owned electrical system in just ten years.
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SaskPower response to the Clean Electricity Regulations: “Not possible from technological, financial and logistical perspectives”
However, for SaskPower to comply with the CER, the majority of our company’s current generating capacity of more than 5,400 megawatts (MW) will need to be expanded, replaced, and rebuilt in just over 11 years – which is not possible from technological, financial and logistical perspectives.
SaskPower signs master services agreement with Ontario Power Generation for SMR development
Finding your way through the incredibly complex path of licensing and building nuclear reactors is not for the faint of heart. SaskPower has someone to turn to for assistance.
Saskatchewan’s direct response to unfair application of the carbon tax: second reading
Second reading of the act that would enable SaskEnergy to withhold collecting and remitting the federal carbon tax on home heating natural gas took place on Monday, Nov. 20. These are the speeches on both sides of the house,
Brian Zinchuk on No Nonsense with Senator Pamela Wallin: Canadian energy policy
Saskatchewan Senator Pamela Wallin spoke to Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk talk about electrification of the Canadian economy, Clean Electricity Regulations, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency and more. The senator’s podcast on YouTube is called No Nonsense with Pamela Wallin.
Lax Kw’alaams disapprove of Nisga’a’s Ksi Lisims Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) on northern BC coast
As this continued contention regarding the development of West Coast liquefied natural gas goes on, Canada is missing out on a major opportunity. The Panama Canal is currently experiencing its worst drought in 73 years, and shipping in the canal has been reduced from 36 ships a day to 24, and will be further reduced to 18 by Feb. 1. But since no LNG projects have been competed on the BC coast to date, Canada will not be able to take advantage of this opportunity.