He’s probably gonna return our calls now 😂 pic.twitter.com/Ofnljb9dAn
— Just Bins (@JustBins) November 29, 2024
No mention of oil, energy, or climate, for that matter, in Sask throne speech
Pipeline Online read through it – the Saskatchewan Throne Speech doesn’t mention energy or oil. And it also doesn’t mention coal, wind, nuclear, uranium, lithium, helium or climate. But there’s lots on education and health.
Trying something new:
And How Was Your Day?
The roof at the Colonsay potash mine collapsed on Tuesday morning. The roof previously collapsed and was replaced in 2013. pic.twitter.com/JloPAGaWKj
— Just Bins (@JustBins) November 21, 2024
Socialist Math
NDP Release Do-Over Platform Costing, But Get Revenue and Expenses Mixed Up: pic.twitter.com/qkcykMmf4i
— Saskatchewan Party (@SaskParty) October 11, 2024
“There’s lots of things that’ll kill you on this thing.”
New thoughts on nuclear development
Pipeline Online columnist Joseph Fournier takes a different approach to nuclear development. He thinks we should get serious about fast breeder reactors.
Also:
Quick Dick McDick works hard, plays hard.
CO2 is not a pollutant, it’s plant food, says Sask United Party leader
It’s not often an oil company CEO sells his company to run for provincial politics, becoming the leader of an upstart party in the process. But that’s exactly what Jon Hromek has done. And as someone coming from industry, his thoughts on energy transition, CO2 and coal differ from a lot of the other politicians in Saskatchewan, or for that matter, Canada.
Surprised no one brought out a pitchfork
Pipeline company comes to oil town to build a wind project, and gets hostile response
You’d have thought they were proposing a pipeline in Nebraska.
This was a very hostile crowd. I’m surprised no one brought out a pitchfork or torch. I’m sure the Enbridge folks figured they were now working for TransCanada, running a Keystone XL open house in the States.
Meanwhile, in Alberta, on Sunday:
That followed this story on Friday which went viral:
Alberta’s wind power flatlines again this week, hitting 1 megawatt out of a capacity of 4748
And if you didn’t see this, it’s worth the hour.
Jordan Peterson Podcast: Danielle Smith on Bill C-59, freedom of speech, CO2, wind, solar and more
Facebook loved it so much, they immediately pulled down the post, claiming it “violated community standards” as spam.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
The @SaskTeachersFed can’t stop obsessing about your kid’s sexuality. There used to be a word for that.
Bumped with more from @SheilaGunnReid;
Trudeau funds Fae Johnstone's hustle to attack Sask parents. Wisdom2Action has a rebrand and more money. $400K more. Queer Momentum is hiring a Sask organizer with that money to go after Scott Moe's Parent's Bill of Rights.
“Fae” Johnstone is a guy, of course.
The Perfect Crime
From private communication this morning;
I have had a learning week. Vehicle stolen july 2 and just recovered July 10… my car has more evidence in it than one can imagine, but lack of police has them not interested…
Maybe I should look on Amazon for a fingerprint lifting kit..
At least I now know what they can’t lift fingerprints from. All those crime shows on TV etc are wrong..
You cannot lift prints from a can of any type of spray or vape machine or skateboard.
I am so much wiser.
…then when I told them that the car had no plates on it and that if the thieves were going to use my plates on another vehicle I wanted them to know. I was told to just go on the saskatoonpolice website and put in my file number and add that information.
I would have thought while I was speaking with them on the phone while they had my file opened they could add it in.
no.
Shared with permission.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Buy Saskatchewan? Major nuclear MOU signed
SaskPower, Cameco and Westinghouse sign MOU on future nuclear development
With Westinghouse now 49% owned by Saskatoon-based Cameco, the prospect of “buying Saskatchewan” becomes significant.
As a side note, I’ve been expecting this sort of development ever since Cameco announced it was buying nearly half of Westinghouse. While SaskPower is currently committed to building GE-Hitachi reactors at Estevan, at least two of them, it’s quite possible subsequent reactors will be Westinghouse models. And Moe has told me several times the government is considering big, 1000 megawatt reactors.
As for the fancy curved architecture, I expect the final product will be much more utilitarian.
Estevan for the reactor win
Premier Scott Moe came to Estevan to announce that if SaskPower builds reactors, they will be near Estevan. It’s been narrowed to two possible sites (maps in story).
Here’s the reactor portion of his speech, verbatim.
And in it, he talks about how SaskPower just might keep its coal fleet in operation until the reactors are built and operating. That would be well past the federal mandate, which Saskatchewan just might ignore.
And the premier’s social media shared the story, too.
“On the occasion of the Estevan Chamber of Commerce’ 120th anniversary banquet, Premier Scott Moe delivered news that could secure the future of the Energy City for many more decades to come.”https://t.co/aTLKLr40TH
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) May 31, 2024
And How Was Your Day?
An NDP Door Knocking Goes Horribly Wrong
The NDP just interrupted our Mother’s Day brunch to tell me that teachers ~should~ be able to keep secrets from parents.
Guess how that went over?
Going nuclear: Moe says Estevan’s likely location for SMRs
Moe says Estevan likely location for small modular reactors.
In the story I talk a bit about how the province and SaskPower are a bit cagey about definitively saying, “Yes, for sure, damned rights, we’re building reactors.”
But you can be sure, “Yes, for sure, damned rights, we’re building reactors.”
Did I call it, or did I call it?
Pollspotting!
Have at ‘er: SaskPower Future Supply Plan
“I am an STF teacher…”
Everyone write it 100 times on the X-board…
The newspaper ship is sinking
The news websites for the newspapers from Estevan, Weyburn, Yorkton, Canora, Battlefords, Preeceville, Outlook, Assiniboia, Carlyle, Humboldt, Moose Jaw, Unity, Wilkie and Kamsack have been sold to a radio broadcasting company. The newspapers’ offices are all up for sale, as is the building housing the last remaining printing plant for them. The newspapers are still printing, for now, but how long is anyone’s guess. Otherwise, why would the last Glacier printing plant left in Saskatchewan have its building for sale?
Should Saskatchewan again have a sovereign wealth fund?
With Alberta going all-in on its sovereign wealth fund (posted yesterday), should Saskatchewan take another look at one of its own? We had one, but it didn’t last long, and turned into something of a slush fund for Crown corporations, apparently. I dug up this discussion paper that was written by U of R professor Stuart Wilson which is actually pretty good. I republished the entire paper, with his permission, on Pipeline Online.
Perhaps ironically, Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund was originally modelled on Alberta’s. And that fund is now worth US$1.42 trillion dollars (with a “t”). (Norway has less oil than Alberta).