24 Replies to “#SaskPower”

  2. Probably carbon capture and storage.
    -29 C this morning in Southern Ontario. Thank-you to the 2 wood stoves.

  3. Is there a shortage of wind in Saskatchewan these days? (runs for cover…).
    Alberta has 1100 years of coal supply at current usage rates. I suspect the reason they don’t have 1200 years of coal is that at some point (the 1100 year’s supply point?) whoever was searching for new supplies of coal in the province simply said “that’s probs enough” and they stopped looking for more.
    And that coal supply doesn’t stop at the border. I suspect Sask. has roughly similar coal supply, measured in the hundreds of years at least.

  4. I don’t know anything about the technical side of getting electricity over vast distances, but if the prairies are still burning coal, why aren’t we building dams in places like BC and sending the power east? I know there has been some talk about Alberta being a potential market for the surplus electricity produced by the site C dam (whether this is pie in the sky, I don’t know). But if it’s possible, why aren’t we doing it? Is it just prohibitively expensive? Technically impossible?

  5. What’s in the “other” 1%? Do they not know? Is it a way of dealing with a margin of error in calculating how much of 100% comes from each source?

  6. B.C. to Saskatchewan – 1,300 km. Technically possible. But you would be crossing an entire resource-rich province called Alberta.
    Also, there are barely 1 million people in Saskatchewan and the province is huge. Revenue per kilometer would be very low.
    Technically possible but financially unreasonable.

  7. No kidding Kate. We would have burned every tree in the province to cook and stay warm were it not for fossil fuels. I’ve always wondered why they call it non renewable. Who says there not making it any more.

  9. We would have burned every tree in the province to cook and stay warm were it not for fossil fuels.Scientific American, back when it was still a reputable publication. The writer stated that the reason the British coal industry got started was that readily available firewood was becoming scarce, so something else for heating and cooking had to be used.

  10. We would have burned every tree in the province to cook and stay warm were it not for fossil fuels.
    Many years ago, I read an article in Scientific American, back when it was still a reputable publication. The writer stated that the reason the British coal industry got started was that readily available firewood was becoming scarce, so something else for heating and cooking had to be used.
    (Somehow, I goofed the HTML tags in my original response. I really need to get a new keyboard for this computer….)

  11. If Mother Nature/Gaia/the bio-sphere wants to freeze humans to death.
    1. Is it a crime of Pagan apostasy to resist that by extracting petroleum from her bosom and burning it to stay alive.
    Or
    2.Is that oil/gas from Mother Nature’s bosom, her wilful lactating to keep her human children alive?
    This Neo-Paganism theology is sure confusing.(face palm genuflect)
    Next week’s topic: Is extracting silver/mercury(silver amalgam) and gold by mining, to be used in dentistry, a crime under Pagan law, an apostasy?
    Are sinking mining shafts a sexual violation of Mother Nature/Gaia’s physical integrity?
    Should such offences be tried at the International Criminal Court at the Hague?
    Note-This program is only broadcast to those living in The Twilight Zone.
    Okay, who wants to join me in a return to the ancient Judeo/Christian concept of humans having dominion over the earth, e.i. the *Dominion of Canada?
    All in favour. Raise your trigger finger!
    (*Thus committing the hate crime Pagan-o-phobia.)

  12. JJim – Carbon Capture and Storage. That means punishing plant life by taking it’s food (CO2) and storing it underground so it can’t be used to promote life.
    Ironically, places that practice CCS haven’t banned the practice of recycling paper.

  13. I get so angry when wind power is mentioned as i lived on a farm that relied on it for electricity. It was unreliable, intermitant and expensive. We signed for hydro when it was available. I know not where those 2 volt glass batteries went that weighed ten to fifteen pounds each.

  15. The engineers that work for Sask Power must be the stupidest of the class as any engineer worth their salt would have been pushing nuclear as our REAL CENTROprovince has lots of it.

  16. Transmission loss is about 1% capacity per 100 Km. For 1300 Km you would lose about 13% capacity. That is significant. The cost would be well over a billion $’s before paying off every shaman and shyster along the way. Why would you go to that effort when you could pump out fuel out of the ground? Maybe with luck the CO2 released might heat up the atmosphere so you don’t freeze. Also Saskatchewan sits on a huge pile of uranium deposits (Sask supplies a good part of Ontario’s nukes) that could fuel as many nukes as you want. In fact you might want to do that sooner than later before the next glacier starts creeping over the prairies.

  17. I’ll put it to you this way: No pipelines, no power take from Site C. Period. I expect Jason K agrees. No truck, no trade with BC.
    If you can strip mine back the wayfare machine, oil sands “excess” power was an issue in this province, before the NDP. It was slated to be shipped to Cali, with power lines paid for by Albertans. Our Energy Minister at the time spent more time south of the 49th racking up the Airmiles arranging for this littel venture to take place, while taking a paycheck from Albertans. A couple of big name oilsands producers were behind all this. More slippery Big Corp Big Gov backroom dealing. None of the power was destined for use IN Alberta. Big Idea by the old Progressive Convertibles of Alberta. Big fights over it that lead to our “new” Land Use Policies that strip the courts from deciding if .gov compensation was adequate. .Gov can now escrow your property forever, to the point that you can’t even take out a loan to expand your business if your land is included in any future right of way.

  18. I was in Calgary for Xmas! I met an information technology guy who works for a major Alberta power corp. I asked him about the wind and solar power that Notley claims to have developed. He laughed! His reply was, ” Wind and solar backed by coal power from Saskatchewan, Montana and North Dakota!! He compared it to having an electric car in the driveway. ”As long as you have a diesel pickup one one side of the garage, and a gasoline powered SUV sitting next to it, an electric powered vehicle is the best thing going. And really, who cares what happens when the batteries run out.!!”
    On my way through Brooks before Xmas, I saw a considerably sized solar power project. About 50% of the surfaces were covered with snow. On my way back yesterday, I noticed that no one had bothered to brush the snow off. That tells me that, A: No one is monitoring the power output, or B: They probably aren’t connected to the grid.
    More hare brained ideas from ”Not-layed” crew.

  19. If you want to know the problem with this both technically and otherwise, go read about Muskrat Falls at Uncle Gnarley. There are a few loons there that tend to ignore the failed promise of “renewables” but the information on the sink hole that is a modern hydro project is sound.

  20. Remember your Brad Wall promised 50 percent renewables by the year 2030. Only 13 more years to go. They sure better pick up the pace or Wall will look like an idiot he is when it comes to this claim and his carbon tax (CCS).

  21. I agree, let them see how expensive it can be. Unfortunately they will have to wait until we have brown-outs before they see how unreliable it is too.

  23. Read any account of ordinary life in the Canadian colonies during winter from the days of New France to the establishment of Upper Canada. There’s a reason why the population was so sparse above the border with the Thirteen Colonies/US and never truly began to take off until the late 19th Century.
    It doesn’t seem to occur to our climate-change-obsessed politicos that our country is a very cold place in the winter and, without a ready supply of affordable energy for heat and light, there will be no Canada in the future since everyone will have moved to Arizona or Florida.
    Then again, perhaps this is what our Dear Leader really means by Canada being the first post-national country.

  24. (the other) James. According to the Green Blob, dams hurt the fishies. So no dams for you. The Ruling Class have their estates in Martinique to which they repair when things are a little nippy back home. If you can’t afford one of those, you must freeze in the dark. It’s for the environment, you know.

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