Is national unity at stake?
SaskPower will be building a new $850 million natural gas power station near Lanigan, starting in under a year. More than half of its power will go to the BHP Jansen potash mine, the crown jewel of Saskatchewan’s economy. But Steven Guilbeault and Justin Trudeau want to shut down all natural gas power stations by 2035.
Irresistible force is about to meet immovable object, and national unity is on the line.
Oh, and for good measure, Bill C-69 is involved.
This is a line in the sand, have the gonads to defend it. We will find out who the girlee men are in this province and more importantly,nationally.
The best strategy is to simply ignore the feds…..and the courts if need be.
In that case Saskatchewan had better form their own Provincial Police Force because if the feds order them to shut it down and they refuse, the Feds will simply send in their standing army, aka the RCMP, to shut it down. And perhaps arrest the executives in charge of the plant.
The WEF/Green/Climate Alarmists give absolutely no quarter when it comes to demonizing/eliminating hydrocarbons – zip, nada, none.
Yet “our” side continues to pay lip service to the fake AGW, evil carbon narrative – always lending credence to it.
AGW as promoted by the globalists is a complete and utter fraud – full stop. Dancing around the issue has failed for 20+ years.
IF you validate the enemies position and talking point, you have lost before you begin – and it wins you absolutely nothing from them. They will not back off.
Paying lips service to AGW is much like official conservatives chasing the elusive Toronto wine mom vote – utter waste of time, gains you no votes and alienates your base.
Quit f*cking around boys – its a shlt strategy – and if you haven’t figured that out yet – maybe you don’t deserve to be in power. Or are controlled opposition.
I agree w/ every word, Ward, esp. this:
IF you validate the enemies position and talking point, you have lost before you begin – and it wins you absolutely nothing from them. They will not back off.
This is why I’m so pissed at UPC for proposing to take leave of Blackie’s Lieberals in the Globull Warming shitshow and move Net Zero to 2050 instead of 2035. All they’re doing is legitimizing their argument. I immediately contacted my MLA & asked him what the difference is. We’re on the same downward trajectory, yours is supposed to be more attractive because it’s 15 years later? SSDP.
There is no point in confronting them, let them sink on their own. They are ideologues, they think they own the moral high ground and there is no convincing them otherwise. Arguing is a waste of time. Moving the targets further down the road allows them their fantasies and allows the rest of the world to just keep moving along as planned. ( see planned new gas power plant). SK has already said it can’t meet the stepped up target dates. The consequences are what? If you can’t do it then you can’t do it. What will Justin do about it? Its already happening in Europe where the Ukrainian/ Russian war hastened the reality of having a fossil fuel shut down. And suddenly wind and solar didn’t look so good and suddenly when faced with reality coal and nuclear looked a lot better. Trudeau already looks like an ass for his “ no business case” comment for liquified natural gas. By 2050 there will be another cause de jour and they will have either forgotten this one or those who attempted to appease them will have suffered the consequences and will no longer be willing to go along to get along. Justin and Steven Guilbault will be long gone..
The oil patch execs signed off on the Green scam and bent the industry over to get in on the action building wind farms and collecting carbon credits. And ever since, they keep having to bend over and never far enough to please Ottawa. Looking back, like you say, it was “a shit strategy”. Are the apparatchiks at SaskPower following the same strategy?
Fertilizer is essential for feeding 8 billion people. No fertilizer, no food. No food, no life. Whatever your opinions on CO2 reduction, it must play second fiddle to food production.
So are Trudeau and Guilbeault willing to jeopardize global food production for the sake of their environmental ideology? Are they willing to go there?
I’m going to hazard a guess that that may be considered a bonus, if not the actual point.
Shawn. I agree. We know one thing for sure, none of the ones shutting down energy/ food production will be the ones starving.
Holodmere v2.
‘Are they willing to go there?’
That’s the goal, not a by-product.
ANY government that allows its citizens to be subjected to energy and food disruptions should be flogged in the public square.
Politicians are untethered from the consequences of their decisions. The reward for catastrophic ideologically driven policies is a gold-plated pension.
It is time to TETHER them….a la Mussolini.
But they want fewer people on the planet.
Then “they” should be the first to volunteer to shuffle off.
Fight.
Let’s see who starves/freezes first.
Instead of asking the question you make it a statement: “Saskatchewan will not play a part in Trudeau and Guilbeaut’s plan to starve millions of people.”
KM, this may be about far more than green ideology. Canada is a large net exporter of food, particularly wheat and canola. So whatever drives up the price of wheat and canola benefits Canada.
That would be a trifle crass.
simple answer to your question?? YES THEY ARE……….they are insane
695 million for 370 mw of electricity. That’s a little more than half of the cost at Keeyask. Keep in mind construction costs have gone way up. In the US historically it has cost about 1 million per mw.
So 1.4 million Canadian pesos for a little more production than Keeyask. Meanwhile Keeyask cost 13.4 billion. I bet it would be 20 million nowadays.
I’m too lazy to do the math for natural gas annual cost, but I remember it being around 200 million a year at full tilt at 700 mw. The nat gas plant is so far ahead economically its not even funny.
Can we somehow build the plant in the shape of a middle finger, facing in the direction of Ottawa?
Yes….yes we can. We can simply ignore the fascists in Ottawa…..and we should.
Didn’t the EU declare natgas and nuclear as green power? Why is Trudeau demonizing it when the rest of the world seems to be embracing natgas? Is it another example of his unhinged hatred of Alberta and Saskatchewan?
The natural gas station should be built regardless of Trudeau liberal-NDP government policies and decrees. Reliable, affordable energy isn’t a luxury or an option in an extremely cold climate…it’s a necessity of life.
Then build nuclear plants.
Another option is a biomass station like the UKs Drax. Saskatchewan’s northern forest is bigger than Germany. Cutting down trees for fuel creates local jobs and can provide cut lines for firebreaks around northern reserves, communities and business operations. Trees are much more renewable than plastic solar panels and metal wind towers. And tree based biomass power is baseload power.
The UK’s Drax station was a coal plant and now imports wood chips from the states. It should be burning coal.
My point is that if Trudeau doesn’t allow coal or natgas then biomass is an option and that most of the world is approving natgas as “green.
I worked in coal plants and they are my least favorite baseload power source but coal is far superior to the absurd push for intermittent wind and solar power.
Time for a long-overdue dee-vorce from Eastern Canada, Let’s go, Buffaloes!
They didn’t want the Raving Loony Enviro Party swarming.
Notably, the StarPhoenix, CBC and CJME have zero coverage on this power plant going ahead. And listening to the Legislative committee on May 3, it is most certainly going ahead. No one else has noticed, and SaskPower is very, very quiet about it.
National Unity? As in Sasxit? Good, eh?
Those who intend to vote for Max and the PPC are voting for Trudeau. If Pierre P. doesn’t win it’s four more years of the little shit, Trudeau and his marionette master in the WEF.. Say good-bye to any chance of turning the tide.
THINK ABOUT IT
Far far worse than that. Its four more years of the NDP/Liberal Coalition.
If you want to know why SaskPower is building additional #naturalgas power generation, here’s your first clue. Alberta’s hundreds of #wind turbines across 36 wind farms produced 6 megawatts this morning. Their nameplate capacity is 3618 MW. #fail
https://pipelineonline.ca/alberta-wind-generation-flatlines-for-second-day-in-a-row-producing-6-out-of-3618-megawatts-capacity/
Are you saying SaskPower is not ever going to build more wind generation and is building natural gas instead?
Can’t see it. More like they need more installed generation in the near term and then will add more wind to the mix.
https://www.saskpower.com/Our-Power-Future
“No matter the noble intentions (like saving the earth), when a law imposed on a people become impossible to follow, is it a just law?” (from the second to last group of paragraphs)
Saving the earth isn’t the intention. Saving the earth is a lie the federal gov’t and many others have been saying for decades. It’s control they’re after, and a firm “no” / separation referendum is what’s required. Less than this “no” and separation referendum, is a fail, and will have the people of Sask. / and AB continuing to bend over for the federal gov’t for eternity.
Get on with a provincial police force or the federal gov’t will send in the unionised goon squad RCMP to do their work.
I fully expect the SCOC to continue to fellate the federal gov’t.
It’s what they do.
Flashback Nov. 2019: Ontario Premier Doug Ford (newly elected) is defending his cancellation of 758 wind and solar energy contracts despite the move’s recently revealed $231-million price tag, saying he would rip out every wind turbine in the province if he could.
“If we had the chance to get rid of all the wind turbines, we would, because it’s totally unrealistic,” Mr. Ford told MPPs during Question Period, saying the high rates the previous Liberal government had agreed to pay for green energy were “making all the wind-turbine folks multi-, multimillionaires on the backs of the ratepayers.”
The lesson to Saskatchewanians is to make the politicians feel some heat.
P.S. Now Ontario is looking at carbon capture and battery storage.
“If the federal government persists with these Clean Electricity Standards, if no allowance is made for Saskatchewan, and if the courts back the feds, Saskatchewan will have to question its place in Canada.”
No allowance will be made, far from it. Canada has become questionable. Time to go.
UDI
I am starting to warm to Premier Moe’s approach.
Our sleeping citizens and the raving media parasites all call the concept of an independent western nation “Too extreme..Too radical”.
Even though a rational examination of the numbers and trends say we have no choice,we are leaving.
Done Moe’s way,the citizenry will all nod in their sleep and agree that we have no choice but to separate ourselves from a central government so insane ,as to intentionally seek to leave us freezing in the dark and having our crops fail for want of fertilizer.
Emperor Justine the Petulant has decreed “Net Zero”.
Moe is turning it into Long Gone Saskatchewan and will have the support of even the most patriotic “Canadians”.
I am beginning to like his work.
As for armed resistance to Ottawa’s Striped Thugs,both Alberta and Saskatchewan have that covered already.
Step one..No to Idiot Ottawa using Provincial resources to steal the citizens firearms.
Already done.
Step two.Deputize all registered gun owners..
Those criminal records checks have already been done,we are all already vetted as safe to handle a firearm..
Not to mention that our marksmanship ,on average ,excels that of the federal Thugs in blue.
Although I would not mind a tax credit for ammunition..For maintaining muh excellence of course.
The ideology of Urban Canada is perfectly expressed by Justine and his Children’s Crusade of a cabinet.
Rural Canada has no place is their fantasy world,so they seek to expel us..
But they need and love our money..
O.P.M it is so addictive.