Saskatchewan is looking to rejuvenate coal, not abandon it: in-depth with Minister Jeremy Harrison.
If SaskPower carries through with rejuvenating coal, it will save three power plants, two mines, ~1000 jobs and two communities.
The significance of the shift on coal cannot be understated. When SaskPower’s then-CEO Mike Marsh came to Estevan in 2018 to say they would not be installing carbon capture technology on Boundary Dam Units 4 and 5, it wasn’t the obituary for the community, but it sure felt like the cancer diagnosis. And with no talk of carbon capture for Coronach’s Poplar River Power station, it seemed all but certain that town would whither away once the coal plant and related mine shut down by the federally mandated 2030 deadline. The January, 2025, announcement of SaskPower looking to rebuild both Boundary Dam and Poplar River, if carried out, would be a decades-long reprieve for both communities.
To extend the metaphor, effectively Estevan and Coronach just went into chemotherapy, and the results may be positive.
The implications of this change in direction, from the impending death of coal, to its possible rejuvenation, have local, provincial, national and international aspects, detailed in the story.
Watch for the Pipeline Online Podcast, Episode 2, to be broadcast on LinkedIn, Facebook and X at 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24.. Crown Investments Corp Minister Jeremy Harrison is the guest, where we will delve even further into this new direction on coal-fired power generation.
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It will eventually be posted to YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify
It’s not carbon capture, it’s a money pit.
Rejuvenating coal certainly flies in the face of conventional thinking. Bravo Saskatchewan!
Ontario used to have reliable base load clean coal fired power plants at Lamden and Nanticoke, the provincial Liberals shut them down, raised the cost of electricity resulting in a significant loss of industry and jobs. Ontario will never recover from that stupidity brought on by Gerald Butts and Katie Telford. They have been trying to do the same thing to Canada since 2015!
In the case of Lakeview generating stations, McGimpy and Butts went to the trouble of making sure it got completely demolished, ensuring it could never be turned back on again, or converted to NG, despite a large natural gas pipeline running within 300 meters of the plant.
Drop Utube and move it to Rumble.
It will eventually be posted to YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Is there a reason that Saskatchewan and Alberta are adverse to nuclear power generation? It’s the most efficient and cleanest of all reliable electricity generation. Does extreme cold affect nuclear plants (probably not since there are nuclear plants in Russia and Ukraine). If they’re built to Canadian standards they’re safe and reliable–more than you can say about the windmills and solar panels. And Sask has uranium!! FFS use the resources God gave you. Sell the coal to China or make them into “ethical” diamonds to sell to the Lefties in Toronto and Vancouver.
… just went into chemotherapy …
Off topic perhaps, but chemotherapy is not a cure for cancer, it’s just a treatment.
Drs Makis, McCullough and others are seeing great results from: no sugar diet, vit D, ivermectin and fenbendazole, but is unfortunately a very inexpensive and effective regimen. Just like coal compared to wind and solar.
In related news, Canuckistan Pravda, Dippers and ecofreaks losing their sh*t over Alberta ending the moratorium.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/smith-says-taxpayers-must-be-protected-from-lawsuits-as-alberta-lifts-coal-moratorium/ar-AA1xBowE
What we need is global warming, can coal do that?
It’s interesting because Germany has done what we are doing now! Coal is the best option at this time!
Nuclear is a good possible but the spent fuel is still a problem, in my mind!
Lignite – dirty coal. Soon to be trade-marked by Germany.
Nothing wrong with coal. The Sudbury smelter has pico-grams of emissions. Hopefully people will see the CO2 bogeyman as a fake and allow emissions to rise once again. Or perhaps we could become the 51st province of China where they burn as much coal, oil and gas as they want.