Oil prices are up, but drilling activity in Saskatchewan is meh. Anyone care to guess why that might be?
Why aren’t drilling rigs flying out the door?
Cry Harder, Groomer
Education Minister Dustin Duncan today announced new parental inclusion and consent policies for Saskatchewan schools.
As of today:
– Schools must seek parent/guardian permission when changing the preferred name and pronouns used by students under the age of 16 in the school;
– Parents/guardians must be informed about the sexual health education curriculum and have the option to decline their children’s participation; and,
– Boards of education must immediately pause involvement with any third-party organization, such as ARC Foundation and the SOGI 1 2 3 Program, connected to sexual health education as the ministry undertakes review of educational resources to ensure alignment with curriculum outcomes. Only teachers, not outside third-parties, will be able to present sexual education materials in the classroom. This directive does not include professionals employed by government ministries or the Saskatchewan Health Authority.“Our government has heard the concerns raised by Saskatchewan parents about needing to be notified and included in their children’s education in these important areas,” Education Minister Dustin Duncan said.
Predictably, the NDP return to their roots.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A Saskatchewan horse thieving vacation.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Ghost Towns Of SW Saskatchewan (h/t Yeti)
Wind produces zero power in Sask three times on Sunday
Total flatline: For 3 hours, 17 minutes on Sunday, not one lightbulb in Saskatchewan was powered by grid-scale wind. Three times wind power went to zero. Not 1 per cent. Not half a per cent. Zero.
Math on how Saskatchewan can grow a multi-billion dollar lithium industry
I’ve been talking for a while now about how lithium has to potential to become a multi-billion industry in Saskatchewan in a few years. Here’s a big chunk of how: Lithium in SK, Part 19: Grounded Lithium’s Kindersley project could cost $447 million to build, but bring in $350 million per year
Also, Brian Zinchuk on Gormley. Up for discussion this month: current oil prices and drilling activity, TC Energy spinning off the Keystone Pipeline system, Public Policy Forum’s paper on doubling the electrical grid, vilification of the oil sector.
And about those two billion trees…
The Chickens Come Home To Roost
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Take a Saskatchewan golf vacation with my friend Karen.
Peak demand, an anniversary and a merger
SaskPower hits record summer demand on Monday.
50 year anniversary for a stalwart of the Saskatchewan oil industry.
One of Saskatchewan’s largest oil producers makes a big deal in the Montney.
Nice story about innocent kid shows some people are full of hate
So on Saturday morning, Premier Scott Moe’s social media team posted this Pipeline Online story on a young Estevan kid who launched an ice cream bike business at the age of 11. She had the help of her oilfield business-owning dad. A nice, feel good story about an innocent little girl and her ice cream bike.
Saskatchewan is full of outstanding entrepreneurs just like Anna!https://t.co/rOvxyiBC3t
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) July 22, 2023
And this is the sort of reaction people full of hate tweeted in response:
https://twitter.com/SaskaRocks/status/1682787028012810240?s=20
Ffs.. kids promoting dirty oil..how effing low will scumbag cons go
Country is on fire
3 firefighters have died in the last week
You make me sick— sherry prattle (@sherryp12417633) July 22, 2023
Unbelievable.
A Saskatchewan Son
Colter Wall’s new album dropped a few days ago.
Those carbon capture people keep coming back to Saskatchewan
Why? Because we are the leaders, worldwide. Every second year the IEAGHG summer school returns to Regina and Estevan, because we’ve got the most significant, commercial-scale carbon capture facility on a coal plant in the world, and we’ve learned a lot from it. That’s from the general manager of the IEAGHG.
Say what you want about carbon capture and storage, but Saskatchewan’s a big deal in this field.
I also asked him about when the glaciers covered Canada, and it wasn’t my SUV or the two coal fire power plants near my house that caused them to melt.
Kipling wind project gets $50 million in fed money, kinda
Basically, Saskatchewan large GHG emitters are forced to pay a form of carbon tax called “Output Based Pricing”. Some of the money from that is what was provided, from the feds, to Cowessess, for their investment equity into this project which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Also, Enbridge doesn’t build a lot of pipelines in Canada anymore. But they are building wind turbines off the coast of France.
You Might Be In Saskatchewan…
Canadian ABCs
Happy Canada Day! In honour of the day the federal government decided to implement the second carbon tax, aka Clean Fuel Regulations, Quick Dick McDick presents the Canadian ABCs.
Oh, and I take serious issue with how he pronounces “Z.”
Lloydminster scores big with Cenovus donation
Lloydminster is building a new arena, and Cenovus, Saskatchewan’s largest oil producer, just ponied up big dollars for naming rights. Still waiting to hear of a wind power generator donating millions to a local community.
And How Was Your Day?
Lightning struck a oilfield battery near Stoughton SK a few hours ago pic taken by Kris Cheaters #skstorm pic.twitter.com/Erz6aOdADW
— Brandon Houck ⚡️ (@HouckisPokisewx) June 26, 2023
“I just drove out of Lumsden, where they’re legalizing pedophilia.”
A set of what appears to be explicit alphabet cards left in a high school classroom has Planned Parenthood in hot water with some parents, and now with the provincial government as well.
Education Minister Dustin Duncan said Thursday he’s suspending the organization from doing presentations in schools until a review can be done.
It stems from materials left at Lumsden High School after a presentation Monday. According to Duncan, the presentation itself concerned things like sexually transmitted infections (STI) and contraception, but some materials that were left in the classroom included a set of alphabet cards that explicitly described sexual acts and situations.
Good. Now, do something about the Trans-Groomer Rainbow Cult that’s infected the curriculum.
And, what the hell is a hard left activist group doing in the schoolroom, performing the job of teachers? Educating kids about STDs is basic health instruction. Stop farming it out to people who hate you.
Glow In The Dark Goodness
Let me share a little story.
Many years ago, a great controversy erupted when a tailings pond at a northern Saskatchewan uranium mine was breached, and radioactive water flowed into a local creek. As you might imagine, much hand wringing and Indigenous outrage and excitable CBC stories ensued.
Omitted from the reporting eruption was that the tailings spill had lower levels of radiation than the natural creek water, effectively diluting it.
Anyhoo… Saskatchewan is now the second largest producer of uranium in the world!
The world comes to Saskatchewan to discuss carbon capture international standards
The irony is the current federal government wants to shut this all down, because coal is evil.
In the meantime, Saskatchewan – Regina, Estevan and Weyburn – showed off its decades of experience to worldwide experts on carbon capture, utilization and storage as they set international standards for the same.