Mark Carney’s video: Forward Guidance: Canada’s Energy Future
If you listen to the end, you’ll hear Carney essentially say Trudeau’s policies don’t work today.
Come and say it to our faces
IBEW 2067 reaction to NDP power plan: Come down to Estevan and Coronach and tell us about it
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party has been taking its “Grid and Growth Plan 2026” on the road, promoting their new electrical grid strategy in Prince Albert and Yorkton. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2067 would like to see them do the same in Estevan and Coronach, and see what reaction they get.
I’m sure a few hundred coal workers who would lose their jobs and possibly their homes would be happy to have that discussion.
Giving Ottawa the bird on coal
Boundary Dam Unit 4 fired up on April 22, and it’s more significant than you might think
Up until now, the coal-fired power refurbishment may have seemed like a lot of talk. On Wednesday, April 22, it became real. And that’s significant for a number of reasons.
Not the least of which is it is in total defiance of federal coal regulations. Saskatchewan is giving Ottawa the bird.
Trump’s speech
Donald Trump’s speech to the WEF at Davos.
Oh, yeah, and he has something of a response to Carney’s speech the previous day, too.
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed, judicial activism rebuked
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed; court says governments get to make environmental policy. In other words, the coal injunction is dead it its tracks. @SaskPower can rejuvenate its coal fleet. The decision is a rebuke of the trend of judge-made law and activist courts, clearly noting the supremacy of the legislative branch in making policy.
This is a huge decision on many points – not just on coal, but on putting activist judges in their place. It will be cited for a long time to come.
The pendulum just may be swinging back to sanity.
Also: NDP criticizes impending SaskPower rate hikes, minister responds
Wind project permits filed; a real live landman, multilaterals and Churchill
Enbridge files wind project development permit applications with RMs of Weyburn and Griffin
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 22: Donny Duncan, Millennium Land, a real live landman
Multilateral designs lift more energy with a smaller environmental footprint
Letter to the Editor: Ice-related developments in the Canadian shipping industry
Churchill, hand wringing and, oh yeah, Eby
Carney and Kinew release joint statement on Port of Churchill development
Jim Warren: COP30—where worlds collide, climate alarmists wring their hands and nothing goes right
Eby says B.C. is at a ‘pivot point’ as he promises future based on natural resources
Break out the baloney!
Just in case you were wondering…
If your turkey relied on wind power this Thanksgiving in Alberta, you’d be eating baloney sandwiches
Also:
Energy Realities Podcast: China v. America on Rare Earth and Critical Energy Minerals
Dr. Tammy Nemeth says, “In the end, who is the beneficiary of not allowing the West to build up its supply chains? It’s China.”
Maybe Saskatchewan needs to get moving on that whole rare earths thing. Lithium, too. Gotta power those iPhones.
Castles and Barbies
Michael Zwaagstra: Your home should be your castle
Oh, and it turns out Climate Change you-know-who has a book about her time in government. And it turns out the implementation of the carbon tax, and the home heating oil exemption, was not all it was cracked up to be. Who woulda thunk it?
Must be due to global warming, clearly
Why Atlantic hurricane season has gone silent.
It’s the time for peak hurricane season. You know, the ones that are supposed to get more numerous and more powerful due to my SUV, pickup truck, and the two coal fired power plants near Estevan? And yet there is nary a hurricane to be found…
CNN is tying itself up in knots.
Clearly, it is due to global warming caused by said coal plants.
Bold move
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 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.
Tell me about the air quality in an 1989 curling rink
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.
Don’t worry, be unhappy
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
To hell with the feds, Saskatchewan is rebuilding its coal fleet
BREAKING: Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet, despite federal regulations calling for its demise. In other words, to hell with the feds, we’re keeping the lights on. At 10 on Friday, Minister Jeremy Harrison will be on the Pipeline Online Podcast
Well, that didn’t last long…
So much for Canada becoming an “energy superpower.” With additional pipelines to the west coast, the idea is dead in its tracks. Eby says he won’t be changing mind on another B.C. pipeline, rebuffing Ford
But but but – everyone was so happy about their confab with the new prime minister.
Premiers heap praise on meeting with Carney, but no specific projects identified.
And from the day before the meeting:
Carney discusses “partnerships” with oil and gas executives in Calgary
So much for team Canada. On CJME Tuesday morning Premier Moe said he was “done” with trying to get a pipeline built through Quebec.
And for something completely different:
There’s more to the oilpatch than just work. You can’t hide these smiles. Lock and load
Trudeau’s letters were all about climate change. Carney, not so much
Carney’s mandate letter to ministers is dramatically different than Trudeau’s, with climate change an afterthought. Trudeau mentioned climate 27 times in his letter to Steven Guilbeault, 20 times to Jonathan Wilkinson. Carney? Once, and almost in passing.
Another major nuclear announcement, this time in Tennessee, which will have impact on SaskPower’s nuclear ambitions.