There’s been major developments this year in the mining portion of the energy sector. Saskatchewan is going to refurbish its coal fleet instead of shutting it down in four years. Major things are happening on the rollout of new nuclear reactors, meaning more...
ESTEVAN – It was quite the thing to see two unions listed among the sponsors for the Estevan Premier’s supper on Oct. 30, but there they were, the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers and United Mine Workers of America, alongside a coal mining...
SASKATOON – On Oct. 20, Minister of Crown Investments Corporation Jeremy Harrison released the “Saskatchewan First Energy Security Strategy and Supply Plan.” It’s an in-depth plan to ensure we keep the lights on for the next 24 years. In his speech and in the...
Dealing with challenges like Ottawa’s ten-year war on conventional energy and the Liberals’ economically ruinous, one-size-fits-all climate change policies does get tiresome. The effort becomes especially wearing when there is so little good news mixed in with the...
EDMONTON – Alberta’s wind laboured little on Labour Day. Throughout the day, wind output from the 1722 wind turbines (at last count) totalling 5,688 megawatts of total generation capacity hovered around the 1 per cent output mark, ranging from 1.9 to 0.8 per cent....
