Saskatchewan running coal power later than 2030 would be illegal: Guilbeault
It would be against the law for Saskatchewan to run its coal-fired power plants after 2030 unless the greenhouse-gas emissions from those plants are captured, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday.
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.
Top 10 conventional wells in Saskatchewan in March sees Vermilion No. 1, but Whitecap dominates
In March, nine of the top ten conventional wells in Saskatchewan were in southeast Saskatchewan, with Vermilion Energy Inc. pulling off the number 1 well.
Biden plan would open leases to conservation, not just drilling and grazing
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration wants to put conserving vast government-owned lands on equal footing with oil drilling, livestock grazing and other interests, according to a top administration official who defended the idea against criticism that it could sideline industry.
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Whitecap Resources impacted by fires in BC and Alberta
Whitecap Resources Inc. on Monday, May 15, joined many other oil and gas firms in being impacted by the wildfires hitting Alberta and British Columbia. The company said on its LinkedIn account late Monday afternoon: Whitecap Resources Inc. advises that the...
Rain doesn’t stop 3rd annual Estevan OTS Top Gun Trap Shoot
It might have rained cats and dogs, but it was the clay pigeons that saw the most action. The Estevan Oilfield Technical Society held its third...
Alberta’s wind power drops to 2 megawatts out of 3618 on Friday, the lowest level we’ve seen yet
For three of four days last week, Alberta saw its wind power generation utterly collapse.
On Friday, May 12, Alberta’s wind generation fell to the lowest number Pipeline Online has seen in 17 months of following the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO). At 7:25 a.m., Alberta’s wind generation fell to 2 megawatts, out of a nameplate capacity of 3,618 megawatts installed, between hundreds of wind turbines across 36 wind farms, collectively costing billions of dollars.
Kerry challenges oil industry to prove its promised tech rescue for climate-wrecking emissions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster.
Quick Dick McDick: You’re the best mother
Quick Dick McDick sings for his mom on Mother’s Day. Because of course he does.
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Pipeline plot twist: where Line 5 threatens nature, now nature is a threat to Line 5
The controversial Canada-U.S. oil and gas conduit known as Line 5 could be facing its toughest challenger yet: the very watershed the pipeline’s detractors are trying to protect.
Spring flooding has washed away significant portions of the riverbank where Line 5 intersects Wisconsin’s Bad River, a meandering, 120-kilometre course through Indigenous territory that feeds Lake Superior and a complex network of ecologically delicate wetlands.
Environment a background issue in Alberta election but may play role, say observers
Few governments have seen as many environmental dust-ups as Alberta’s United Conservatives in their four-year tenure.
They tried delisting parks and opening the Rocky Mountains to coal mining. They charged fees for a beloved alpine playground. They started an inquiry into whether environmental groups were “anti-Alberta.” They proposed dunning taxpayers for the cleanup costs of abandoned oil and gas facilities.
The list goes on.
Crescent Point Energy increasing use of hedging amid volatile oil markets
Crescent Point Energy Corp. is increasing its use of hedging to protect itself against commodity price swings.
Like other Canadian energy producers, the Calgary-based oil and gas company — which has drilling operations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and North Dakota — has been directly affected by the volatility in global energy markets over the last 12 months.
Nine years after SaskPower pioneered carbon capture on coal, the US intends on adopting it wholesale
REGINA, WASHINGTON – In 2011, the Government of Saskatchewan and SaskPower made the decision to go ahead with post-combustion carbon capture on Boundary Dam Unit 3. By 2014, a few months delayed and a few hundred million over budget, the $1.6 billion project was...
Carbon capture for all: In major climate step, EPA proposes 1st limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
The Biden administration proposed new limits Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change.
A rule unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S.
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Alberta wind generation flatlines for second day in a row, producing 6 out of 3,618 megawatts capacity
Alberta’s power grid saw wind power generation crater to 0.17 per cent on Wednesday, one day after it similarly cratered.
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...
SaskPower quietly announces natural gas-fired Aspen Power Station at Lanigan
Major project could soon run afoul of impending federal greenhouse gas emissions regulations, but Saskatchewan needs to keep the lights on, and power its mines.
Riverbank erosion prompts Wisconsin band to ask for emergency shutdown of Line 5
Heavy spring flooding has made Line 5 an “imminent threat” to Lake Superior and a key Indigenous watershed, lawyers argued Tuesday in an emergency motion to shut down the controversial cross-border pipeline.
Alberta wind generation cratered, again, on Tuesday morning
At 9:25 a.m. on Tuesday, May 9, Alberta’s wind power generation cratered, again, to 13 megawatts.
That’s out of a nameplate capacity of 3,618 megawatts installed, between hundreds of wind turbines across 36 wind farms, collectively costing billions of dollars. That 13 megawatts was 0.4 per cent capacity.
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New Suncor CEO Kruger focused on cost-cutting, will ‘play to win’
The new top boss at Suncor Energy Inc. says he will be sharply focused on cost-cutting as he embarks on the task of improving performance at the oilsands giant.
Rich Kruger, who took over as Suncor’s new CEO on April 3, pledged Tuesday that the company will become a “simpler and more focused organization” under his leadership.
Will Shand and/or Boundary Dam be converted from coal to gas-fired? No, but SaskPower’s looking at it
Is SaskPower lining up natural gas supply with the intent of possibly switching Shand and/or Boundary Dam Power Stations from coal to natural gas?
Primec Controls opening Carlyle satellite branch
CARLYLE – One of the motivating factors behind Estevan Meter, Virden Meter and Apollo Electric amalgamating under a new name, Primec Controls, at the beginning of this year was that it made more sense when it came to expansion. And that time has come, as Primec is in...
Crescent Point shuts in 45,000 boepd, Vermilion shuts in 30,000 boepd due to Alberta wildfires
Crescent Point and Vermilion have shut in Alberta production due to wildfires.
Quick Dick McDick: I lost my shit
Ever lose your shit? And it’s just gone? You look everywhere, you make embarrassing calls, and … nothing? And you really need it?
Yeah, that happened to Quick Dick.