Jim Wilson was one of the people who helped get carbon capture built in Estevan. If the province isn’t going to do more, he thinks Estevan should focus on nuclear.
“I was very much involved in trying to get it built. I was proud of what we achieved. Everything was good. I remember hearing (Catherine) McKenna in Paris make the announcement,” he said, adding, “Carbon pricing and all that has changed our world.”
He said, “You know, their decisions were not science-based, or business-based. They were politically-based. They were clearly political. And that’s what (Morgan) answered to you. It’s sad for you and I, and the community that built the first clean coal facility of its type. And it was probably a transition solution more than anything, right?
“That’s the point: they’re ignoring this technology. And it works. And to my knowledge, and we’ve developed it and built the first.”
Trademark “Net Zero Coal” and you’re off to the races.
You’re welcome.
Why did you need carbon capture Mr Wilson? To help validate the lies of AGW? How did that turn out?
The carbon capture project made lots of people rich in SK
This. “Clean coal” IS NOT carbon capture, it’s the removal of actually toxic combustion byproducts from the emissions, like SOx, NOx and VOCs. There’s a ton of good R&D that’s been done on this that’s been completely abandoned because of this bollocks about the entirely harmless CO2.
How to move ahead with enslaving the working masses, CARBON CAPTURE. Which really is carbon dioxide capture! The carbon schitt is another lefty lie.
He is an idiot. why would you need Nuclear, oh wait he has ties to SNC Langevin who Harper sold all the Candu shit too.
Yah SK has massive Uranium mines. But they have never figured out how to make Nuclear Pay.
It is totally subsidized by the Tax payer from start to finish. The Tax payer even pays their Insurance Premiums because no Insurance Company will touch Nuclear. What does that tell you.
Sadly I think Estevan was “slow rolled” by the feds, “clean coal” via carbon capture was never going to be and will never be an option and they knew it but played everyone like a fiddle as if it was. Somebody made a ton of money in the process.
We had somewhat of the same situation here in Ontario…I don’t know how many millions were spent on scrubbers and other technological niceties in coal fired power plants to appease the Greens but Wynne shut them down anyways and dotted the landscape with her spinning eyesores and acres of glass.
SaskPower announced it was considering the Elbow and Estevan areas as possible sites for nuclear power development.
Hmmmmm…I’ll believe it when they put a shovel in the ground because last time I checked enviro whackjobs aren’t thrilled with nuclear either. We’ll see.
Dave Epp Chatham Kent MP asked Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Guilbeault if he’d consider postponing the scheduled carbon tax.
Nope. Something about hurricanes and the existential threat of climate change. So that’s that.
Know your enemy Mr.Wilson. These people are insane.
I think that SaskPower should supply electricity.
They don’t need to be global warming cult activists.
Keep the home fires burning; let’s see them send the army in to disconnect the power grid. Burn baby Burn Coal
The estevan residents can’t wait 20-30yrs. They have seven.
Any new nuclear will be built close to population centres. So Estevan is not a likely contender for a new plant. Then again Nimby may make locating these plants near Saskatoon and Regina unlikely as well. So I guess if Estevan wants a nuke, they can probably have it.
Just shows you it was never about CO2, it’s all about access to a cheap, abundant energy supply. Without access to a cheap, abundant energy supply no civilization can ever flourish, period and that is exactly what they want.
I recently submitted a letter to the editor of the Calgary Herald in rebuttal of an opinion piece by a director of carbon capture and storage promoter (who happens to be an employee/director of a financially interested firm) that encouraged us to spend billions to sequester carbon (dioxide). To wit:
Can Mr. Millar (or anybody) please provide solid evidence that mankind’s production of carbon dioxide due to the use of fossil fuels is the definitive cause of any (claimed) change in our climate? Until such evidence is presented, we are foolish to direct resources towards any scheme to tax, credit trade, sequester, store or reduce production of this trace gas that is crucial for our survival.
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