Cameco and Bruce Power extend supply agreement to 2040, providing Ontario reactors with Saskatchewan uranium
On April 4 Cameco and Bruce Power announced the extension of their long-term exclusive nuclear fuel supply arrangements for an additional 10 years through to 2040. This inter-provincial collaboration secures decades of Canadian-made nuclear energy that is essential to building a path to net-zero, while creating good jobs and benefitting ratepayers, Cameco said in a release.
Brian Zinchuk on Gormley: OPEC+ production cut, spring breakup, power interconnect with US, Arizona Lithium
Here’s April’s regular feature with Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk appearing on the John Gormley Show on CJME/CKOM on Wednesday, April 5. Up for discussion are OPEC+ cuts and rising oil prices, spring breakup, a questionable poll overseas about Canadian oil, a powerline interconnect with the United States, and Arizona Lithium’s (formerly Prairie Lithium) open house in Estevan.
Spring breakup finally begins, delayed three weeks from usual
The 2023 spring road restrictions come into force in Saskatchewan on Friday, April 7, according to an April 5 press release from the Ministry of Highways.
The announcement came roughly three weeks after the usual announcement of spring breakup road bans. That typically occurs within a few days of March 15, either before or after. This year, it’s 23 days after March 15.
Jim Warren, Part 1: The energy industry has been at the mercy of environmentalists and their allies in government for far too long
This column is the first in a series of four that will assess ways to improve perceptions about Western Canada’s fossil fuel industry among policy makers and the wider public. This column acknowledges past mistakes and looks at some industry analysts’ insights about what’s gone so badly wrong in the recent past. In subsequent columns we’ll look at ideas for increasing support for the industry and reducing the impact of its critics.
Oil could be headed back to US$100 a barrel this year: Industry experts
A surprise production cut by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC plus) is just one factor lifting the spirits of Canada’s energy sector executives these days, as experts say crude prices could return to US$100 a barrel later this year.
“Buoyant” and “extremely positive” were some of the terms used by CEOs on Tuesday to describe the mood at a major oil and gas conference in Toronto, which took place just two days after the unexpected move by OPEC sent oil futures surging.
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Letter to the Editor: SaskPower didn’t come up with its coal transition plans overnight
This transition, this plan, is not new for SaskPower. They undoubtably had to have been working on transition plans for many years. These projects don’t just come up over night.
One Alberta coal unit put out 26.4x the amount of power of the entire fleet of hundreds of wind turbines
At 1:36 p.m., Alberta saw its wind power generation drop to 14 megawatts out of 3,618. That’s 0.38 per cent of nameplate capacity, or 38 ten-thousandths.
Op-Ed: Saskatchewan Coal Transition Centre: Sabotaging our future: How SaskPower’s $1 billion scheme to import power from the U.S. will devastate Estevan and leave Saskatchewan’s economy vulnerable
SaskPower’s plan to replace clean, reliable and affordable coal-fired power from Estevan’s Boundary Dam with 650 MW of power from the Southwest Power Pool in the U.S. starting in 2027, will not only cost Saskatchewan residents a billion dollars, it will also devastate Estevan and put the entire provincial economy at risk. We hope that SaskPower has considered the following:
Oil prices soar on producer output cuts; World shares higher
Oil prices soared nearly 6% on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year. Shares in Asia were mixed.
Ovintiv signs deal to buy Midland Basin assets for US$4.275B, selling Bakken assets
Ovintiv Inc. has signed a deal to buy a portfolio of assets in the Midland Basin in Texas in an agreement valued at US$4.275 billion in cash and shares.
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SaskPower wants 3,647 megawatts of wind and solar. But early this morning, Alberta’s 4,783 MW of the same produced just 29 MW
Wind was producing 0.8 per cent of its 3618 megawatts of nameplate capacity. When you add wind and solar, it was 0.6 per cent of total 4783 megawatts of wind and solar nameplate capacity.
But SaskPower is aiming to build a similar amount of wind and solar. What will it mean for us?
Quick Dick McDick: Trudeau’s Federal Carbon Tax
Quick Dick McDick chose to release this on April 1, April Fool’s Day. Why? Because that’s the day the federal carbon tax went up, again, this time by $15 per tonne to $65 per tonne of CO2 equivalent. (That’s a 30% increase, if you were counting).
For want of a pipeline: Canadian LNG should power low-carbon revolution, report says
As the world struggles to find the right balance between a carbon-free future and a present that still runs on fossil fuels, Canada could be leveraging its natural-gas riches to help fuel both, a new report suggests.
The report, to be released Monday by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, urges the federal government to finally get serious about building the infrastructure necessary to fast-track the extraction and export of liquid natural gas.
Six months of detailed analysis of SaskPower’s generation mix: We’re going to need a lot of reactors
Six months of daily electricity data in Saskatchewan has been compiled and visualized by Brahm Neufeld, an engineer from Saskatoon. Last fall he launched a Twitter account @SkElectricity, logging and detailing SaskPower’s daily power generation output. Data is collected daily from SaskPower’s “Where Our Power Comes From” dashboard.
Enbridge plans to partner on clean ammonia facility in Corpus Christi, TX
Enbridge Inc. says it has signed a letter of intent with Yara Clean Ammonia to jointly develop a blue ammonia production facility at the Enbridge Ingleside Energy Centre near Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Patchwork Podcast: Orion Machining in Lloydminster
Join Kurt Price and Tracy Klotz as they go live from Orion Machining in Lloydminster for the Patchwork Oil and Gas show.
‘Why don’t you fight for what we have, and what works?’ SaskPower holds open house in Estevan on $1 billion interconnect with US, solar and nuclear
This story is long, but worth it, especially if your livelihood is impacted by coal mining or power generation. Pipeline Online goes deep into the weeds with SaskPower on its plans for a 650 megawatt interconnect with the US., solar, nuclear power, backup generation for days the sun doesn’t shin and the wind doesn’t blow, carbon capture plans (or lack thereof), and more. And some of the public’s reaction is pretty raw.
Verbatim: NDP grilled SaskPower and minister on billion dollar powerline interconnect with the US
The following is a Hansard excerpt of the Crown and Central Agencies Committee of the Legislature on Dec. 20, 2022. In that discussion, NDP SaskPower Critic Aleana Young asked Crown Investments Corporation Minister Don Morgan about the interconnect’s cost.
To put this into context, you really want to read the related story: ‘Why don’t you fight for what we have, and what works?’ SaskPower holds open house in Estevan on $1 billion interconnect with US, solar and nuclear
Don’t slow walk critical minerals development, says NDP finance critic, regarding 2023 provincial budget
Don’t slow walk critical minerals.
That was part comments from New Democratic Party Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon in reaction to the March 22 provincial budget. He spoke to Pipeline Online by phone on March 23, offering his thoughts on the budget’s energy initiatives.
UFA opens Weyburn and Yorkton sites, Saskatoon next
UFA has recently fully opened to new cardlock locations in Saskatchewan, at Weyburn and Yorkton. Both are on the northwest corner of their respective cities, with Weyburn’s just off Highway 39 and Yorkton’s off Highway 16.
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Judge orders US to resume oil, gas leasing in North Dakota
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota, even as a legal battle continues over the Biden administration’s decision to pause the leasing program two years ago in an effort to combat climate change.
Lithium in SK, Part 17: Lithium prices have come down … to only US$70,000 a tonne. A decade ago, they were US$7,000
Let’s put this in perspective: Around 2012, I wrote my first story on lithium, and at the time the prices had recently tripled to around $7,000 a tonne. In the fall of 2021, when Prairie Lithium (which this week was acquired by Arizona Lithium) was drilling the first targeted lithium well in Saskatchewan, the price was $21,000 a tonne. By the next spring, it was $65,000 a tonne.
Feds outline $83B in clean economy tax credits in bid to compete with U.S. incentive
Serious money is heading for Canadian industries looking to reduce emissions after the federal government unveiled its answer to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
The spending commitments announced in Tuesday’s federal budget include tax credits for investments in clean electricity, clean-tech manufacturing, and hydrogen that together are expected to cost some $55 billion through to the 2034-35 fiscal year.
Budget 2023 gives boost to dental care, green economy while searching for savings
By Mia Rabson in Ottawa Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's 2023 federal budget promises "transformative investments" in Canada's green economy as the country tries to maintain its place in the global clean tech revolution and realign its supply chains...
Crescent Point to buy Spartan Delta Corp.’s Montney assets in $1.7-billion deal
Crescent Point Energy Corp. has reached a deal to buy Spartan Delta Corp.’s Montney oilfield assets in Alberta for $1.7 billion, a deal that will see the Calgary-based company significantly grow its presence in what is one of North America’s largest unconventional petroleum plays.
The all-cash deal announced Tuesday will see Crescent Point acquire 600 drilling locations in the Montney region, adding 38,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) to the company’s production capacity.