Aug. 22 …
Sept 5 …
The province announced Wednesday that it has sold its 50 per cent interest in NewGrade Energy Inc., a Crown asset in Regina.
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The upgrader, which processes heavy crude oil into synthetic crude oil, has 162 employees. Half the company is owned by Consumers‘ Co-operative Refineries Ltd.
The buyer of the province‘s share likely won‘t be identified until the fall for regulatory reasons.
$320 million of the proceeds are going to create a new “Green Futures Fund”, And because there are never too many places* to park your political cronies…
In addition to founding the Green Future Fund, the Government will immediately begin the process of establishing a Climate Change Secretariat, staffed by climate change experts. The Secretariat will be placed within CIC to co-ordinate and oversee Government’s climate change agenda in the Crowns and Executive Government.
The NDP has signed Saskatchewan to a commitment to “stabilize” the province’s C02 emmissions by 2010 and reduce them by 32% by the year 2020.
That could happen.
Right after John Deere rolls out a nuclear-powered 9030 Series.
Hope agriculture is next.
Would that include the CWB?
Private Ownership can be used to positive benefit. That said the current SaskParty/NDP name calling over the Crown’s status hypocritically avoids the problems central issue entirely. The differences between the SaskParty and NDP do not amount to a hill of beans in the middle of a pork processing plant in any event both the NDP and SaskParty are bad for Saskatchewan..
Hey SDAP – this is a comments thread. Keep the self-promotion down to a dull roar, please.
Roaring at a dull level set 😉
A nice little slush fund for Lorne should he need to top up his pension and salary, only keeping up with inflation you know.
Ah, Ol’ Hoss, still convinced you’re entitled to your entitlements, eh???
We are much more likely to see that Nuclear Powered JD than the fulfillment of any NDP plan (past or present).
Besides all of that … who let Chicken Little out of his cage?
Hey, you dumb bunnies — you DO realize that this was a Crown INVESTMENT and not a Crown CORPORATION, right?
The Crown has investments all over the frigging place. There’s a huge difference between the two.
And Katie, why isn’t there any up-to-the-minute news of D’Autremont’s huge gaff today when he started talking about SaskTel? Oh, wait — because you’re not going to hold the Sask Party accountable WHEN THEY SCREW UP?
Here are two tips:
First, the Sask Party has let a hungry, guttural growl escape from beneath that soft, woolly coat they’ve been sporting recently:
Wading into potentially choppy political waters, a senior Saskatchewan Party MLA says if the party wins the next election, it will review Crown corporations that are competing with private business.
And it would be open to dismantling some parts of them, MLA Dan D’Autremont said.
Second, Sask Party Leader Brad Wall, desperate to hide the truth from Saskatchewan voters, has cut his own colleague Dan D’Autremont loose for daring to state the truth about the Sask Party’s real plans:
Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall moved quickly Friday to stress his party would not consider winding down any Crown corporation subsidiary businesses if the party formed government, despite comments to the contrary a day earlier by a fellow MLA.
Wall said Cannington MLA Dan D’Autremont was simply wrong in speculating that a Sask. Party review of Crown corporations and how they compete with private business could result in such a change to a Crown subsidiary.
‘Simply wrong,’ eh Mr. Wall?
About a policy people in your party have pushed for years?
Just what policy are you and your team trying to hide by dismissing Dan D’Autremont in this way?
It would be easier if we didn’t have such cold winters. It’s hard to stop pollution when it’s 30 below.