Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends;
Since the opening of the Boundary Dam Unit 3 Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project in late 2014, Saskatchewan’s coal-fired power industry, and Estevan in particular, has been waiting for a clear message from the provincial government whether it would pursue additional carbon capture projects. To date, nothing has come forward, but the minister responsible indicated on Sept. 20 it would not happen.
Hanging in the balance is the future of both Coronach and Estevan, with the Poplar River Power Station at Coronach, Boundary Dam and Shand Power Stations at Estevan, their respective coal mines, workforces and communities.
On Sept. 20, the clearest indication to date came from the Minister of Crown Investment Corp. Don Morgan. The most recent cabinet shuffle placed all the major Crown corporations, including SaskPower, under one ministry under Morgan. His statements during an announcement on two possible sites for small modular reactor locations did not bode well for the future of coal in this province.
Second Rule of Conservative Governance: Screwing over your friends will turn them into enemies.
Second Rule of Conservative Governance: Screwing over your friends will turn them into enemies. There no conservats in kanukistan, only a few bible thumping cucks
It’s a lot cheaper and easier to build new natural gas plants than to retrofit old coal plants with carbon capture. Unit 3 CCS conversion didn’t go smoothly and, according to rumors, there was a lot of financial irregularities in the building and tendering process.
Keeping the workforce in Estevan for a future nuclear plant probably isn’t an insurmountable problem. It took years to decommission the old Estevan Generating Station. Decommissioning all the BDPS units will require lots of employees and trades. A bigger problem is likely that there isn’t enough young people in trades and technology to replace all the old dogs that are retiring. Coal plants have a difficult time attracting these young workers because of the awful working conditions in coal plants, especially BDPS. BDPS was the worst place I’ve ever worked at, by a country mile.
Carbon capture and storage. Stupidity on a monumental scale. Coal, a gift to humanity. Compact energy that can be stored in a heap and used when necessary.
Bingo Robert. With the bonus of giving off plant food.
The only two things “conservatives ” are good at. Go figure.
You’d think these turds would learn that commies aren’t going to magically start suckholing for conservatives just because you bend to their every whim. It only embolden them. Anyway….carry on. Conservatives gonna con.
If every penny spent on solar or wind power and carbon capture was spent on hydro-electric it wouldn’t be pissed away. The projects could have useful lives of hundreds of years. The best locations are taken but smaller projects work while the alternatives do not. The second best is nuclear and the third best is natural gas. My order is based on low CO2. Since CO2 responds to global warming instead of creating it, the best is actually coal. The fuel for the life of the project is laying right there.
the best is actually coal
The problem with the whole CO2 scam is that it distracts from real issues. Coal has a lot of sulphur and nitrogen compounds in it that you do not want in the air and scrubbing the emissions is both expensive and technically complex to maintain.
Nuclear of various scales – CANDU all the way down to pebble bed or molten salt – is the way to go technically and economically, but the Bezmenovites have successfully demonized it permanently.
Hey, Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us.
Volcanic erruptions emit a lot of nasty compounds into the atmoshpere. Let’s see how you scrub those out.
Pleasing or “appeasing”?
Appeasement never works.
It is taken as a sign of weakness and only encourages them.
Compromise means they win and we lose.
Every time, because they never give back.
Throwing your friends under the bus to impress the “cool kids” never resulted in being accepted by the cool kids. It also resulted in your friends becoming your enemies. I don’t know how many times I had to explain this to my MP while O’Stoole was running the show.
Saskatchewan needs an underground railway for coal. Ship it to the US underground and then ship it to the port in Vancouver by rail.
The irony is that we just entered a deal to buy power from the Dakotas when our newly green grid fails us … which is coal fired, but carbon tax free.
Ship the coal to China so they can burn it in their power generating stations and safely emit the CO2 into the atmosphere. Or ship the coal south to the US where they can burn that coal to generate electricity and then purchase that electricity from them. Makes sense for a stupid Sask Party decision.
Progress Redefined.
Meanwhile, California has implemented this great new technology that can shut down highways.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/tesla-megapack-battery-fire-in-california-that-shut-major-highway-is-now-fully-controlled/ar-AA1250Zo?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=04774891771d443daf566a2c50911e1e
Don Morgan is a POS. Do not trust that person. I’d vote for a Dipper over him, that is how bad of a person he is.