This is the second in a series of in-depth interviews with the parties vying for the Saskatchewan election. In it, Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe speaks at length about increasing oil production, not just to 600,000 barrels per day, but possibly eventually a million. He discusses royalties at length for potash, lithium and helium. And on power generation, he says we should keep burning coal past 2030 (the federal deadline) until we have nuclear power in place. This is, by far, the most in-depth coverage on energy you’re going to see in this election. At the end I included the entire portion of the platform related to energy that’s been published. Other parties have published sentences or paragraphs. This was five pages plus a few more on power generation.
On Thursday morning I should have the NDP story up, followed by the Buffalo Party on Friday.
Also:
Carbon pricing rebates land in bank accounts as Liberals defend embattled policy
And:
Alberta government launches $7M ad campaign against incoming federal emissions cap
This one is interesting because Michael deAdder, who was recently terminated from his 30 year career as a political cartoonist with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, posted this on his Substack. It’s a full page front page ad, one of those deceptive type ones that make it look like a story (I hate those).
When I was editor of Pipeline News, I used to buy the occasional political cartoon from him. But when I checked his X account just now, for some reason he blocked me.
Sounds like de Adder is a Lieberal party brown noser.
de Adder is a full-on leftard.
Meanwhile, education in Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan …
https://www.westernstandard.news/saskatchewan/exclusive-sask-school-allows-boys-in-grade-7-female-changing-room-parents-outraged/58622
We should keep burning coal for the lifetime of the generating setups. When to switch to nuclear should be a matter of economics and not governed by the desire to meet the irrational deadlines of the climate emergency lobby.
He stated that quite clearly.
“But we need to be able to run the life cycle of our assets out – our coal fired power plants, and our natural gas power plants…”
Shand, Poplar River and Boundary Dam are all quite old and in need of extensive refits to continue producing as they have been. Nuclear power will be available to replace them in about a decade.
I keep saying we need to keep up on the maintenance of those plants until we have replacement. 2034 for the first 300 MW reactor is “as scheduled.” When does any major project, let alone nuclear, meet schedule? And to replace the remaining ~1400 MW of coal capacity with ~1200 MW of nuclear will take until at least 2042, if not longer. We need to keep that coal going a lot longer.
Uh oh! Someone wants oil extraction up to 1 million bpd!! Uh oh! That’s sure to DROP the price of oil and drive the industry into bankruptcy! Don’t drill … baby … please don’t drill!! Brian doesn’t want you to have cheap, plentiful, energy.
It would take many years for Saskatchewan to incrementally increase production to those numbers. That would not immediately flood the market, as Trump speaks of.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz Strait will take care of that. I am always amazed at how people miss the political aspect of oil prices.
The $7 million Alberta government ad campaign is infuriating. Instead of an ad campaign why not just declare that the province won’t impose the federal emissions cap, end of story. It’s the same old wishy-washy bullshit instead of being tough as nails and, yes, separation is the ultimate recourse, and long overdue.
Then later in the Pipeline story is and interview with a U of C economist who doesn’t know what he is talking about.
CTV’s coverage of AB’s ad campaign was laughably biased. Brought on some U of C profs to bash Smith.
If you hate the media, you don’t hate them nearly enough.