Weekend Watch: Hard workin’ music edition
Here’s some of the workin’ man and woman’s anthems of the oilpatch, for your weekend pleasure, as curated by myself and my daughter Katrina, whose living the dream as a heavy duty mechanic apprentice in Weyburn.
Are there any we’ve missed?
Canadian ministers vow to accelerate action at global environment conference in B.C.
“This is the start of a long climb,” Guilbeault told the news conference.
Saskatchewan funds nuclear specialist for supply chain development of small modular reactors via SIMSA
SASKATOON – As the federal government’s recently released draft Clean Electricity Regulations make coal-fired power, even with carbon capture, all but impossible, and will require almost perfect carbon capture on natural gas-fired power generation. As a result, Saskatchewan’s increasing focus on nuclear power generation is coming to the fore. And to that end, money is starting to be dedicated to that purpose.
Nemeth Report Podcast: ESG on steroid? ISSB standards are coming to Canada
The topic of this episode is the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the newly released IFRS S1-sustainability and IFRS S2-climate-related financial disclosure standards that Canada is determined to implement. Canada has created a Canadian Sustainability Standards Board to work in lockstep with the ISSB and is currently reviewing the standards for implementation. Some have called these sustainability standards ESG on steroids. Dr. Tammy Nemeth’s guest is Deidra Garyk, energy advocate, contributor to Energy Now, and Manager, ESG and Sustainability at energy services company Trican.
Crescent Point is getting out of the North Dakota Bakken with $675 million sale
Crescent Point Energy Corp. is selling off its North Dakota assets to a private operator for US$500 million (approximately C$675 million) in cash. It’s a move that follows Crescent Point’s growing focus on Alberta production in the Duvernay play, where they have been seeing some stellar wells in the range of 1,500 barrels per day initial production.
But as their focus in Alberta has grown considerably, action to the east has declined.
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Scott Moe on Clean Electricity Regulations, a lot more nuclear power, and first mention of 1,000 megawatt reactors as a possibility
ESTEVAN – Several hundred people came out to see and speak to Premier Scott Moe at a barbecue in Estevan on Aug. 22, and a substantial number of those were people who work in coal-fired power production, concerned about their future and the future of the community.
CES Energy Solutions announces strong Q2 results
CES Energy Solutions Corp. (CES), announced on Aug. 10 record second quarter financial results for Q2 2023, as quarterly revenue, Adjusted EBITDAC and cash flow generation continued to grow year over year. CES has substantial operations in Saskatchewan through its PureChem Services division.
Lithium in SK, Part 20: Hub City Lithium again finds some of the high concentrations in Canada, announcing second test well results
Hub City Lithium Corp. reported on Aug. 17 its second targeted lithium well, drilled southwest of Stoughton, has shown some of the highest brine lithium concentrations yet reported in Canada. More significantly, they closely match results from the nearby first lithium well drilled in that area.
Less than one-third of one per cent – Alberta’s wind output at noon on Aug. 22, while solar was 29.4%
The federal government is seeking to eliminate coal and natural gas power generation unless it has near-perfect carbon capture, and yet it was those very fossil fuel power sources that kept the lights from going out in Alberta at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 22.
Energy Transition Podcast: Episode 77 – Is the climate crisis a fossil fuel crisis?
Tammy Nemeth, Armando Cavanha, Irina Slav and David Blackmon talk about the supposed climate crisis and fossil fuels.
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Low wind output results in grid alert for Great Plains states
The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), which runs from the Canadian border south of Estevan to the Texas Panhandle, issued a grid alert which covered its entire footprint for most of Monday, Aug. 21. "SPP is issuing a Conservative Operations Advisory for its entire SPP...
Four reactors could cost Saskatchewan $12 to $20 billion. The feds just gave us $74 million
In 26 years, four months and 10 days, Saskatchewan could need as many as 27.5 reactors. Maybe more. SASKATOON – Small modular reactors (SMRs) could cost Saskatchewan up to $3 to $5 billion a piece, and SaskPower is planning on four of them, largely driven by federal...
‘Nation-building moment’: Yukon eyes connection to B.C. electricity grid
Yukon’s energy minister says Canada’s push for more green energy and a net-zero electricity grid should spark renewed interest in connecting the territory’s power to British Columbia.
Ford announces $1.2B EV battery material plant with funding from Quebec, feds
Ford Motor Co. and its South Korean partners said Thursday they’re building a $1.2 billion manufacturing plant for electric vehicle battery material in Quebec with the help of government funding.
Appeals court strikes down Utah oil railroad approval, siding with environmentalists
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports.
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Weekend Watch: Al Gore rails against oil and gas
Former Vice President Al Gore gets pretty vocal in his TED Talk entitled “What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know.” Because of course he does.
Are the federal Clean Electricity Standards impossible to meet? We asked SaskPower
“The CER would require SaskPower to effectively rebuild our entire power system, through retiring the majority of our existing generating units and replacing them with new, ultra-low emitting units or non-emitting energy sources, while also growing the system to support expanding electricity needs that are expected to support growing demand for clean electricity for industrial needs, transportation, increased customer participation and other needs.”
Poplar River Power Station back in service 2.5 months after flooding took it out
SaskPower reported that one of the two units at the Poplar River Power Station near Coronach is back in service as of Aug. 17.
Guilbeault defends Canada’s climate progress as Equinor plans more drilling off N.L.
Amid a summer of severe wildfires and flooding, the federal environment minister expressed no concern over plans by a Norwegian energy company to drill for more oil off the coast of Newfoundland.
B.C.-based Carbon Engineering being bought by Occidental for US$1.1 billion
A Canadian company that is pioneering the use of direct air capture technology to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere has been acquired by U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum.
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Jim Warren: New research challenges the foundations of global warming theory
The scientific research described in this column challenges the validity of climate orthodoxy and the utility of the scenario-based computer modeling systems endorsed and employed by the IPCC. Unfortunately, this sort of information gets lost in the flood of media distorted, environmentalist exaggerated hype that constitutes conventional wisdom about global warming. If it turns out that GHG missions actually fail to account for a significant portion of the warming that’s occurred since 1850, it will show the mad rush to abandon fossil fuels is an unfortunate overreaction. Readers of Pipeline Online have been convinced of this for years – but it’s still nice to know there is science that supports our position.
Suncor has been too focused on energy transition, must get back to fundamentals: CEO
The man hired to turn around the flagging fortunes of Suncor Energy Inc. said Tuesday he believes the company has been too focused in recent years on the energy transition and must get back to an oil-centred business strategy.
Danielle Smith: Grand sweeping fairytales that threaten Canadians ability to keep the lights on are no way to speed things up
“Ottawa’s strategy seems to be to placate the environmental extremists, while throwing regular Canadians under the bus. That’s wrong. It’s unacceptable, morally and financially. And Alberta’s government will not go along with that. We will never allow these regulations to be implemented here, full stop.” – Danielle Smith
Saturn Oil & Gas’ production more than triples in one year
Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. saw its production more than triple compared to the same time last year. The company reported its financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 on Aug. 15.
$6.2 million for one exploration lease highlights Saskatchewan Crown land sale for August
There was a major development in land sales in the August Crown land sale in the Kindersley area. You would probably have to go as far back as 2008 to see a single exploration parcel go for over $6 million in this province, but that’s exactly what happened.