Election 2024: All-of-the-above energy strategy, no changes to royalties: New Democratic Party
This is the third in a series of in-depth interviews with the parties vying for the Saskatchewan election. In it, NDP Energy Critic Aleana Young speaks about the NDP’s all-of-the-above energy strategy.
The greatest threat to nuclear development is not technological or even financial – it’s change in government. This was evident with the Site C Dam in BC, where a new NDP government pumped the brakes, but then ultimately went ahead with it. The NDP in Saskatchewan continue to support nuclear power development, but “we have to get it right.”
As I’ve done with the other parties, I reproduced everything I could find in the party platform related to energy. Well, the terms “oil” “natural gas” “potash” “critical minerals” “SMR” “nuclear” or “electricity” are not referenced within the document. But “healthcare” comes up 35 times.
Friday will be the Buffalo Party. So far, I have not heard from the Greens, PCs or Progressives. Wonder why? Is anyone else writing 3200 word stories on their energy policies?
On a side note, I attended a three hour long Estevan city council/mayor town hall this evening. It took 2 hours and 25 minutes before anyone made any serious comments about coal. That was right before I got my chance to ask about dealing with the impending eventual shut down of coal-fired power generation, but also preparing the city for nuclear power. Amazingly, about half of the 13 people on stage really had no substantive answer on that front, and several had no clue or hadn’t thought of it. You would think that would be the most important issue facing this city – much more important than sidewalks or boulevard flowers (which got more discussion up until that point than coal or nuclear). Especially since the nuclear built out will be the most costly infrastructure project in Saskatchewan history to date. (If I attend a forum like this, you can be damned sure I’m going to ask the toughest questions.)
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So the I know everything about sidewalks and stop signs disease also affects councillors on the Prairies and not just Ontario
Yeah don’t expect them to know much about their city’s debt rating or how the grid’s reliability and balancing gets precarious with more solar panels or windmills. Important but oh way too complicated.
Yet they are so insecure and thus full enough of themselves to keep talking ad nauseam about nothing to try and be impressive. And then in the next breath say they will cure homelessness.
Seinfeld’s show was popular because people wanted to be stuporred by watching vapid thought.
And they are allowed to vote. (TM)
There are sidewalks in Estevan??? You sure?
Hey, curb your enthusiasm!
The underlying problem continues to be that everyone continues to pretend CO2 is bad for the planet, and acts as a thermostat for it, which is a transparent lie.
Hope the buffaloes step up and separate themselves from the crowd on this.
Validating climate change is just as absurd as validating mutilating children on the altar of trans, as parroting the mantra diversity is our strength, or cbdcs are a wonderful convenient replacement for cash.
Two thumbs up!
Ward, outside of covid it is biggest lie ever. The goal is to kill everybody. Why????????
“The greatest threat to nuclear development is not technological or even financial – it’s change in government.”
The greatest threat to humanity is government, period. One shouldn’t encourage local politicians to engage in anything beyond sewer, water, and garbage as they end up like Calgary – declaring a climate emergency as their infrastructure wears out.
Totally agree. All levels of government (there are too many) should stick to their prescribed knitting, full stop!
Yes the problem is government.
Elon can’t launch more rockets in California because his views are different from accepted political beliefs, that have nothing to do with rockets.
Golly J C , amazing to see people actually catching up.
Aleana Young? What’s her defect? Every Communist has a defect. She look’s almost boneable so I’m guessing mental health issues. Either that or giant warty growths.
Good one! Perhaps it’s genetic as in raised in a multigenerational CCF / NDP legacy family. Or, perhaps it was absorbed through osmosis by attending the United Church of Canada.
Thank you for continuously banging away on this, Brian. Cheap and reliable energy is essential; as is cheap and reliable food.
Robert, without coal, oil and gas, the evil will see seven billion die. Without “fossil” fuels we cannot produce enough food for that many people.
Alena served on Regina’s public school board and owned and operated a gourmet cheese shop.
I’m going to open a down-filled sleeping bag shop if these guys win.
If Moe can get the production of oil and gas way up, the royalties and taxes from that increase will go a long way toward rebuilding the health care system. Ottawa sure won’t help, and the NDP doesn’t even understand basic economics.
Moe should also stop wasting money on wind and solar energy.
You want health care, stop calling it health care and tell it like it is. It is medical care. Healthy people don’t need “health care”. Healthy people have injuries that require medical care. They have illness that requires medical care.
Language is important.
Young gives away what the Dips will do on nuclear energy.
“but like with any major spending commitment, we have to get it right. ”
Having to get it right means we will stop everything and study it until we are satisfied or it becomes impossible because of the delay. This is exactly what David Peterson did with Darlington in Ontario in 1984. He halted everything for a couple of years, resulting the construction cost doubling.
This is a standard tactic of any political party confronted with something they have opposed for the last half-century.
Hard pass. NDP are masters at putting lipstick on the party pig when it matters the most.
A cheese aficionado at the helm of Sask’s energy policies? Nah.
Then again you have Fred Matheson from Matheson’s men’s wear on the board of Sask power so who am I to judge.
On nuclear power – “We have to get it right”. What the hell does that even mean????
No to any political party that pushes abortion as hard as they do
Lucky for us the NDP Energy Critic runs a cheese store in the big smoke of Regina. What could possibly go wrong?