This is the second in a series of in-depth interviews with the parties vying for the Saskatchewan election. In it, Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe speaks at length about increasing oil production, not just to 600,000 barrels per day, but possibly eventually a million. He discusses royalties at length for potash, lithium and helium. And on power generation, he says we should keep burning coal past 2030 (the federal deadline) until we have nuclear power in place. This is, by far, the most in-depth coverage on energy you’re going to see in this election. At the end I included the entire portion of the platform related to energy that’s been published. Other parties have published sentences or paragraphs. This was five pages plus a few more on power generation.
On Thursday morning I should have the NDP story up, followed by the Buffalo Party on Friday.
Also:
Carbon pricing rebates land in bank accounts as Liberals defend embattled policy
And:
Alberta government launches $7M ad campaign against incoming federal emissions cap
This one is interesting because Michael deAdder, who was recently terminated from his 30 year career as a political cartoonist with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, posted this on his Substack. It’s a full page front page ad, one of those deceptive type ones that make it look like a story (I hate those).
When I was editor of Pipeline News, I used to buy the occasional political cartoon from him. But when I checked his X account just now, for some reason he blocked me.
Sounds like de Adder is a Lieberal party brown noser.
de Adder is a full-on leftard.
de Adder is a snake in the grass.
Meanwhile, education in Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan …
https://www.westernstandard.news/saskatchewan/exclusive-sask-school-allows-boys-in-grade-7-female-changing-room-parents-outraged/58622
We should keep burning coal for the lifetime of the generating setups. When to switch to nuclear should be a matter of economics and not governed by the desire to meet the irrational deadlines of the climate emergency lobby.
He stated that quite clearly.
“But we need to be able to run the life cycle of our assets out – our coal fired power plants, and our natural gas power plants…”
Shand, Poplar River and Boundary Dam are all quite old and in need of extensive refits to continue producing as they have been. Nuclear power will be available to replace them in about a decade.
I keep saying we need to keep up on the maintenance of those plants until we have replacement. 2034 for the first 300 MW reactor is “as scheduled.” When does any major project, let alone nuclear, meet schedule? And to replace the remaining ~1400 MW of coal capacity with ~1200 MW of nuclear will take until at least 2042, if not longer. We need to keep that coal going a lot longer.
Barakah in the UAE, a four-unit nuclear station, was done ahead of schedule and under budget. It’s a case of picking the right builder and project manager.
And, this is the hard part, being honest to the public about budgets and delivery times. If you want to see where this goes wrong, just look at the Ottawa and Toronto light rail public transit projects. Projects go off the rails because of added political or job creation goals that have nothing to do with execution of the project itself.
Government is always the problem.
One of the chief delays with nuclear power is the multitude of regulations allegedly designed for safety but in reality meant to delay and discourage any development. The envirofascists made it an early goal to ban nuclear power and used regulations to accomplish that by driving time and costs up until any development in Canada was snuffed out. For fourty years they have been successful. Any renewal of the nuclear age will require a complete overhaul of the regulations governing nuclear power. As a bonus: picture Steven Guilbeault’s face as his life’s work is tossed in the trash. Ah well, he has already made his millions making us poorer.
Uh oh! Someone wants oil extraction up to 1 million bpd!! Uh oh! That’s sure to DROP the price of oil and drive the industry into bankruptcy! Don’t drill … baby … please don’t drill!! Brian doesn’t want you to have cheap, plentiful, energy.
It would take many years for Saskatchewan to incrementally increase production to those numbers. That would not immediately flood the market, as Trump speaks of.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz Strait will take care of that. I am always amazed at how people miss the political aspect of oil prices.
So, in summary, you are anti-cheap plentiful energy to fuel our capitalist society. You want farmers to pay inflated prices for fuel and fertilizers … which spikes the cost of food for everyone. You want trucking companies to pay inflated fuel prices that inflate the prices of … everything.
Sorry, I vote for cheap, plentiful, fossil fuels to power our economic expansion. I don’t wanna be … like Europe.
@Kenji, By your logic, farmers should be happy with $2/bushel wheat, like they were in the 1990s. Oh, wait, I remember those years, when my dying grandmother said, “Brian, your grandfather and I would have given you all our land, but seeing how your father did, maybe its a good thing you didn’t become a farmer.”
The prices you are suggesting are not much better than the oil prices of most of the 1990s. You’d like to see oil prices around $30/bbl, when the price of oil in the 1990s was around $20. Would any other sector of the economy, in our capitalist society, be okay with that? Because I would really enjoy $2 to $3 Big Macs again. But then again, minimum wage in Saskatchewan was $4.50/hour for my first job in 1991, and today it’s $15 an hour.
https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart
Hmmm, two people who’s logic and comments I respect are where in this destruction of the Canadian energy market? I say market but there is far more involved than just the market.
You may think that politics is the source of wealth but in the free market one votes with dollars not ballots. It isn’t Trump’s job or any bureaucrat’s to determine the price of anything. That’s up to billions of consumers and thousands of producers to mutually and beneficially agree on at any one time. It’s why socialism always fails. Europe’s energy costs are a function of greens dictating energy policies and being stuck with unreliables. They could frack their way out this mess but the greens control the state and it’s verbotten.
The $7 million Alberta government ad campaign is infuriating. Instead of an ad campaign why not just declare that the province won’t impose the federal emissions cap, end of story. It’s the same old wishy-washy bullshit instead of being tough as nails and, yes, separation is the ultimate recourse, and long overdue.
Then later in the Pipeline story is and interview with a U of C economist who doesn’t know what he is talking about.
CTV’s coverage of AB’s ad campaign was laughably biased. Brought on some U of C profs to bash Smith.
If you hate the media, you don’t hate them nearly enough.
De Adder certainly feels sorry for himself liking himself to a prophet lost in the desert but without a flock
“Michael deAdder, who was recently terminated from his 30 year career as a political cartoonist with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald”
Newspaper Political Cartoons died with introduction of ‘human rights’ tribunals in Canada. ‘Mohammad cartoons’ were shown only by the then Western Standard, whereafter they were
saddled with a 900 day quasi-legal persecution.
Only those who catered to what political cartoons were allowed, without fear of retribution beyond a nasty Letter to the Editor, remained.
Murderous actions against political cartoonists in Europe sealed that fate.
If a foreign dictate controls something as simple as newspaper political cartoons in Canada, why wouldn’t control of energy resources in Canada be similarly subject to foreign dictate ?
Our governors have retarded resource development in Canada, and literally put a price on breathing out, to ‘combat climate change’, itself an unserious concern in Canada.
Canada is the world’s second largest country, and first largest reservation.
Trump might depress the price of oil by encouraging American production and applying tariffs to foreign production. However, I can’t see him getting on the Green Train whereas Biden cancelled Keystone XL on day one.
Harris will suppress American, Canadian, and Mexican production through leveraging trade agreements, increasing taxation, adding more regulation, and multiplying subsidies for unreliable solar and wind power.
There’s no point in high oil prices if Canadian production remains stuck in Western Canada without better access to the USA, the Pacific, or the Atlantic. That’s the goal of the environmental lobby, the green new deal, and numerous foreign governments. Do you think Germany and other potential customers would be a worthwhile marketplace? Won’t happen without pipelines and access to one or both coasts. Harris will block that using every governmental and environmental means possible.