Many EV owners say they’re undeterred after the federal government’s mandate pause
Bold move
Who needed power on Labour Day, anyhow?
Alberta wind power generation took a holiday on Labour Day
Throughout the day, wind output from the 1722 wind turbines (at last count) totalling 5,688 megawatts of total generation capacity hovered around the 1 per cent output mark, ranging from 1.9 to 0.8 per cent.
A “Dialectic on Energy Policy” with a former pipeline CEO vs. sustainable development exec
On July 27, the Midwest Legislators Conference in Saskatoon held a “Dialectic on Energy Policy,” essentially a debate on energy choices in a world focused on climate change. Hal Kvisle, former CEO of TransCanada Pipeline/TC Energy was on the right side of the debate and Louise Miltich came from the left.
Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray Show: Multilaterals, coal revival, major projects and more
On Sept. 3, Evan Bray and Brian Zinchuk go over the growing impact of large multilateral wells, LNG, the new major projects office, Alberta electrical grid updates, coal revival and more.
Nuclear power development for Saskatchewan
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 16: Dr. Chris Keefer, nuclear power advocate
Dr. Chris Keefer is a leading nuclear power generation advocate in Ontario and President Canadians for Nuclear Energy. He’s also a Toronto Emergency Room physician. As Saskatchewan is looking seriously at nuclear power, Ontario has long led the way.
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Brian Crossman: Making choices
The reason we use electric lights instead of candles is because they WORK BETTER. They were not mandated or forced upon the public by the government, nor was the sale candles banned. The statement that conservatives oppose technology is ludicrous. It would no different than saying a member of the liberal party was against computers or the internet.
Someone noticed
Good piece on the NDP’s dazed and confused tariff response.https://t.co/KORgMLdOEB pic.twitter.com/Rp0SFwq9yM
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) August 26, 2025
Also: Fireside chat about the coal injunction
The people behind the injunction are against the expansion of natural gas-fired power generation, against the continuation of coal-fired power generation, and also against nuclear power. So what’s left?
And – Wind in Alberta bottoms out three times over the last week
Dazed and confused
Jim Warren: Dazed and confused—the Saskatchewan NDP’s approach to our tariff war with Trump
It’s a Liberal tradition, keep the voters in Ontario and Quebec as happy as possible. So what if the West gets annoyed, they have no power in parliament. That’s why Liberal elections strategy is based on the maxim “Screw the West we’ll take the rest.”
Coal Injunction, Part 5: Saskatchewan Environmental Society and Citizens for Public Justice
The Coal Injunction, Part 5: Saskatchewan Environmental Society and Citizens for Public Justice, and the conclusion. #saskatchewan #coal
Coal Injunction Part 4: Manitoba activist farmer and Saskatoon environmental podcaster
The Coal Injunction, Part 4: Affidavits of a Manitoba activist farmer and a Saskatoon environmental podcaster
Okay, I can see the very much adult Saskatoon podcaster having some standing. She is at least and adult and in Saskathcewan, so likely uses power SaskPower produces. But if she lives in certain parts of the city, she could actually be a Saskatoon Light and Power customer.
The National Farmers Union activist farmer, on the other hand, is neither a Saskatchewan resident nor a SaskPower customer, unless he has a very long extension cord from east of Winnipeg to Moosomin.
Coal Injunction Part 3: The arguments of a 12 year old
Does a 12 year old, who cannot vote, serve in the military, drive, or be held fully responsible for criminal acts, have the “agency” to determine energy policy for a province? When 1100 jobs and up to 44 per cent of the grid on cold winter nights is at stake?
This is the third piecenof five in the coal injunction series on Pipeline Online, which discusses the affidavit of the 12 year old. That child has appeared in national media now three times in the last two years. Could this perchance be some attention-seeking?
And apparently some people have taken notice of this series.
Part three of these came out this morning. They are an important read. I'll be sharing them all on this platform. https://t.co/I4OmsKqsWM
— Brad Wall (@BradWall306) August 20, 2025
Coal Injunction, Part 2: their arguments against coal
The Coal Injunction, Part 2: Arguments against continued coal use made in injunction filings
A 12-year-old child, a podcaster and a Manitoban as well as Saskatchewan Environmental Society and Citizens for Public Justice have filed for an injunction to stop Saskatchewan’s recently announced plants to rebuild its coal fleet in its tracks. In Part 1, the stage is set. In Part 2, Pipeline Online digs into the legal filing, known as the “orginating application,” itself, laying out their arguments to end coal-fired power generation for good.
Lawfare engaged to kill Saskatchewan coal revival
Pipeline Online does one of its deepest dives yet into the injunction application meant to shut down Saskatchewan’s coal-fired generation fleet, just as this province begins its rebirth. At stake are 1100 jobs, billions of dollars, and keeping 44% of Saskatchewan’s lights on. And just who gets to govern around here, anyhow?
I spent five days working on this five part series which starts Monday. The Saskatchewan Environmental Society and Citizens for Public Justice have put forward a 12-year-old non-binary child from Regina who has been in national headlines now three times in two years (attention seeking, perhaps?) as the Saskatchewan version of Greta Mark II as part of this. And be forewarned, the lawyer who did that said that if anyone said nasty things online about the child he put forward, there could be legal consequences. Is he using the child as bait? I dig into this in Part 3.
The other inviduals are a Saskatoon environmental podcaster who is taking a poli sci degree in her 50s. And the third is a Manitoba farmer who neither lives in Saskatchewan nor is a SaskPower customer.
And it was only at the end of this process I realized the lawyer filing the case has run unsuccessfully for office five times. Is he trying to accomplish through the courts what he failed at the ballot box?
This is lawfare, pure and simple.
I’ll have a piece each day. Watch for it and share if you’re willing.
What’s a hundred grand when we’re saving an non-existent EV industry?
Quick Dick McDick says the canola tariffs just cost his farm $100,000 overnight. Want to know what he thinks about that? That’s just ONE FARM, by the way. Just one.
Coal injunction:
I am working on a major five-part series to run next week on the efforts by some activists to use a court injunction to block Saskatchewan’s coal revival efforts before it even gets going. Among them is a Greta Mark II, a 12-year-old non-binary child who has been in the headlines at age 10 for the pronoun issue, then at age 11 for skipping school because of climate anxiety. Another doesn’t even live in Saskatchewan. You can’t make this up. As a prelude to that series, read Bronwyn Eyre’s column on judicial activism and lawfare. It ties directly into this coal injunction nonsense and is a good primer for what’s to come.
Podcast on Sask NDP’s take on coal, minister response
Pipeline Online Podcast: Aleana Young Ep. 15: Would the Sask NDP reverse the coal decision? And what about nuclear?
It was a pretty lively and interesting podcast.
And here’s the minister’s response to this text story: Coal Revival: Would the NDP reverse the coal decision? And why are they now big on nuclear power?
Minister’s comments:
Coal Revival: Harrison says NDP will shut down coal plants immediately if they were to form government.
Would Sask NDP reverse coal decision?
The biggest threat to a major policy announcement is a change in government that then completely reverses that decision. So on that basis, I spoke to the Saskatchewan NPD and asked:
Coal Revival: Would the Saskatchewan NDP reverse the coal decision? And why are they now big on nuclear power?
Finger in the dike?
Poilievre says of B.C. Premier Eby that ‘one man can’t block’ pipeline proposal
Crushing dissent, says retired judge
Frontier Centre for Public Policy: The Tamara Lich trial shows just how far Ottawa will go to crush dissent, especially in the West
Note, the author is a retired judge, who probably knows a thing or two about sentencing.
Also, I’m not sure if I posted this a few days ago:
Nova Scotia designates offshore areas for wind development in “Wind West” scheme
Consequences
Jim Warren: Elections Have Consequences. Think pipelines.
BREAKING: SaskPower buys land for possible reactors
BREAKING: SaskPower buys land on Rafferty Reservoir for possible nuclear reactors #saskatchewan #nuclear #SMR
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Hudson Bay oil shipping?
Digging deep into the talk about shipping oil from Hudson Bay/James Bay and this week’s announcements
EVs
Michael Zwaagstra: Time to scrap the federal EV mandate
I have known Michael Zwaagstra for 33 years. He is one of my closest friends and more importantly among the smartest men I know. He has been writing advanced policy pieces in the education sphere since 1997. He is a senior fellow with not one but two policy think tanks, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Fraser Institute. His first book, What’s Wrong With Our Schools and How Can We Fix Them, is a blueprint for fixing our messed up school system. Indeed, when Bronwyn Eyre was Saskatchewan Minister of Education, she had worked on trying to address those very issues using Zwaagstra’s book for guidance.