Energy CEOs send another open letter to Carney, urging “Build Canada Now”. The list of signatories keeps getting longer…
On nuclear:
SIMSA to lead study to strengthen Saskatchewan’s nuclear supply chain
And for the masses:
Roughriders and Co-op partner to deliver “Community Zone” at Mosaic Stadium
Good Lord, what are we waiting for?
As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government prepares to announce the first projects of national interest it has selected, Radio-Canada has learned that no oil pipeline is on the list, according to three sources that have spoken to Radio-Canada.
“There is no [oil] pipeline project on the table,” one of them said, despite the federal government’s promise to make Canada an “energy superpower.”
No coincidence: Electricity prices in Canada just posted one of their sharpest spikes on record.
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 17: Andrew Roman – climate activist litigation using children and the Charter
Retired lawyer Andrew Roman joins the Pipeline Online Podcast to talk about the recent trend in climate change activist lawfare to use children as their frontmen and Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He may have been the guy to come up with the phrase “No More Pipelines Act.” That one seems to have stuck.
[UK Tory leader Kemi Badenough] it seems, is about to unveil a pledge to extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible.
This is from the front page of the Sunday Telegraph which is carrying a headline proclaiming, “Drill the North Sea dry, says Badenoch”, mirrored by an online story headed: “Kemi Badenoch: No more net zero – extract every drop of North Sea oil”.
From the online text, we learn that this week in Aberdeen she will deliver a speech that will draw comparison to Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” moment, when she will vow to abolish all environmental restrictions on fossil fuel extraction.
This, it is said, will be her greatest departure from net zero to date. It will emulate the wealth-creating approach taken by Norway and establish “a clear dividing line with Ed Miliband, who is forging ahead with net zero plans to ban new oil and gas licences.
Such a pledge, if ever translated into policy, would release the estimated 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the UK’s North Sea sector, although there may be even more, with some recent analyses suggesting that up to 7.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent could still be produced from UK waters,
To put this into context, the total annual primary energy consumption figure for the UK runs at about 550 million barrels of oil equivalent, which includes consumption directly by consumers, fuel used for electricity generation, and other transformation processes.
And, there’s more.
h/t Adrian
Russia Uncovers 511 Billion Barrels of Oil Beneath Antarctica
The 511 billion barrels reported is nearly double Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves and more than ten times the North Sea’s output over the last 50 years. This isn’t a minor find—it’s one of the largest oil reserves ever reported anywhere on Earth.
The discovery was made during recent expeditions by Russian research vessels operating in the Weddell Sea. While the stated purpose of these missions was scientific, officials and analysts in the UK and elsewhere are raising concerns that Russia is using research as a cover for resource prospecting—a move that would violate the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, which bans mineral and oil extraction.
Poilievre says of B.C. Premier Eby that ‘one man can’t block’ pipeline proposal
Fraser Institute- Saskatchewan remains Canada’s most attractive jurisdiction for mining investment
Saskatchewan remains Canada’s top-rated jurisdiction for mining investment, ranking 7th globally in the Annual Survey of Mining Companies released
today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.Finland is the top-ranked jurisdiction worldwide for mining investment in this year’s survey, followed by Nevada.
BREAKING: SaskPower buys land on Rafferty Reservoir for possible nuclear reactors #saskatchewan #nuclear #SMR
Also:
Digging deep into the talk about shipping oil from Hudson Bay/James Bay and this week’s announcements
The dumbest generation of CEO’s in history tried to appease the crocodiles:
In a rare display of corporate sanity, Suncor Energy has abruptly cut funding to a climate activist charity peddling “resilience” projects across Indigenous communities. The decision marks a welcome shift away from the company’s years-long flirtation with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) mob.
Suncor had pledged $500,000 to The Resilience Institute, a climate group focused on adapting communities to so-called “climate risks.”
But instead of handing over the cash and patting itself on the back for more hollow virtue signalling, Suncor pulled the plug — quietly, firmly, and without apology.
A “six year attempt” at pleasing their enemies. This may be the dumbest generation of CEO’s in corporate history.
Shell and other leading energy groups have abandoned a six-year-long attempt to define a net zero emissions strategy after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields#ootthttps://t.co/zLb7lte1Z9
— Giovanni Staunovo (@staunovo) July 22, 2025
If you’re torqued about the Saskatchewan Roughriders game on Friday being postponed, you need to watch Quick Dick McDick tear it to pieces.
Quick Dick McDick: Air Quality Index cancels Rider game? People have had enough of this $#!+
Also, Bronwyn Eyre knocks it out of the park again, this time on Bill C-5 where everyone gets a veto.
Sun- Kinew stalls as Manitoba leans on federal cash and ignores untapped mineral wealth
Manitoba has that opportunity — and it’s buried in the ground.
Our province is home to some of the most valuable critical minerals in the world. Lithium, nickel, copper, cesium, and rare earth elements are all present in commercially viable quantities, especially in regions like Snow Lake, Lynn Lake, and the Thompson Nickel Belt. These are not just rocks in the ground. These are the building blocks of everything from electric vehicle batteries to wind turbines to advanced electronics. And the global demand for them is rising fast.
Coal Revival: From living on borrowed time to once again having a future: United Mine Workers of America Local 7606. This is a powerful story about coal, Estevan, Saskatchewan, SaskPower and Westmoreland.
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 13: Greg Rickford, Ontario Minister for the Ring of Fire. Are we Can’tada?
Danielle Smith and Doug Ford gave a press conference just before Bronwyn and I went online with Monday’s podcast, conveniently with the Ontario minister responsible for the Ring of Fire. Something came out of Ford that REALLY caught my eye.
He was talking about a deepwater port on James Bay. That’s the dangly part of Hudson Bay that happens to be really close, relatively speaking, to Ring of Fire.
No details have come out yet, but we have to remember this – there is no road, no railroad, no pipeline, NOTHING to James Bay. That area of northern Ontario might as well be the moon, which is why it has been so hard to get a GRAVEL road built to the Ring of Fire. I was shocked, yes, gravel. A multi billion dollar development to rival Fort McMurray and you’re going to have a gravel road???? And they talked about possibly a pipeline to said port, which will be conjured up from thin air. (Maybe they should build a paved road, first?)
What does this mean for Saskatchewan? Now there are potentially three ports in play on Hudson/James Bay? As I wrote last week, without a fleet of icebreakers at over $3 billion a pop, any port on Hudson Bay is a fool’s errand, at least for shipping oil.
But it seems Ontario is now serious about a new oil pipeline, entirely in Canada, to replace Enbridge Line 5.
And Premier Moe spoke a while back about any pipeline through Saskatchewan being automatically approved. Not sure what he meant by that, but is that why he didn’t need to take part in this press conference, since he was present at Stampede?
I didn’t have time to dig into all of this, but maybe I’ll do a column on it later this week. Here’s the Canadian Press stories about it.
Premiers Danielle Smith and Doug Ford agree to study new energy corridors, more trade
Ontario Premier Doug Ford pitches railway to Ring of Fire, Alberta is on board – Note, this is the first major rail project I’ve heard about, well, since I was born. Is this why the Sask NDP talk about rail projects, using EVRAZ steel?
Alberta to hold nuclear power consultations as reactor companies weigh opportunities
That column about Hudson Bay I referred to: Brian Zinchuk: Let’s get serious about shipping oil from Hudson Bay
I updated it with an animation of sea ice from last year to show how serious of an issue it is. https://pipeline-online-v1750862700.websitepro-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hudson-Bay-Ice-Gif.gif
Al Gore’s giving speeches again: Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth
Jim Warren: Don’t worry be unhappy and support efforts to defend the energy sector in the West
One measure of Canadian exceptionalism might be how much capital we insist on destroying in order to shove harmless trace gases deep into the earth.
He made his announcement at the site of Bow Valley Carbon Cochrane Ltd. northwest of Calgary, where emissions from a natural gas extraction plant are to be stored four kilometres underground. Bow Valley is a partnership between Inter Pipeline Ltd. and Entropy Inc.
It is to receive $10 million to add equipment to the plant, and Hodgson says its emissions reductions will equate to taking more than 12,000 cars of the road a year.
Brian Zinchuk: Let’s get serious about shipping oil from Hudson Bay
Coal Revival: RM of Estevan Reeve Jason LeBlanc gave a speech in the snow on Parliament hill in support of coal, now it has been saved.
Coal Revival: Revisiting Jason LeBlanc’s 2019 speech on Parliament Hill in support of coal and against the carbon tax
Coal Revival: RM of Estevan lauds practical and common-sense decision
I should note that Jason LeBlanc is VERY well known in the Saskatchewan farming community from his many years as an auctioneer. In 2019 when former Sask NDP Leader Ryan Meili disparaged LeBlanc for that very speech from the relative safety of in the legislature, registrations for the protest truck convoy heading to Regina in the next few days doubled overnight. The phone rang off the hook. Over 800 trucks showed up a few days later for that rally.
