Enbridge sells Alliance Pipeline, Aux Sable to Pembina Pipeline
In 1999-2000, the Alliance Pipeline was built from Fort St. John to the outskirts of Chicago, cutting right across Saskatchewan along the way.
Nova Scotia and federal government put final bullet in the head of still-twitching offshore gas play
Well isn’t that just peachy? Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government teamed up with the federal Liberal government to put a bullet in the head of the province’s natural gas industry…
Sask Research Council and North West College team up
On Nov. 17, the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) and North West College announced a new, innovative plastic welding pilot program…
Post-construction field work complete for Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline project
The official record shows that construction of the Canadian portion of Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Program (L3RP) was completed more than four years ago…
SaskPower signs master services agreement with Ontario Power Generation for SMR development
Finding your way through the incredibly complex path of licensing and building nuclear reactors is not for the faint of heart.
Sask government takes action on home heating carbon tax
On Oct. 30, Premier Scott Moe said Saskatchewan residents wouldn’t pay the carbon tax on natural gas home heating if those using home heating oil…
Conservative Natural Resources Critic on carbon tax, Part 1
The whirlwind around the federal carbon tax, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paused for home heating oil for three years, but no other forms of home heating…
Saskatchewan MLAs unified in opposition to unfair application of federal carbon tax
Members from all parties in the Saskatchewan Legislature unanimously approved a motion, brought forward by the NDP, to “scrap the carbon tax on everything for everyone.”
Trudeau just blinked on his premier climate change initiative, the carbon tax
Late in the afternoon of Oct. 26, the staunch federal Liberal policy of climate change priorities conquers all just cracked.
Right side of history: Two protest leaders from 2019 truck convoys react to “No More Pipelines Act” ruling
Long before the “truckers convoy” protested COVID-19 pandemic measures in Ottawa, a series of convoys in and from Saskatchewan and Alberta paved the way, as it were.
West central Saskatchewan brings in over half of Crown land sale dollars
The Government of Saskatchewan’s Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering, held on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, has raised $11,049,883 for the province.
Just 29 drilling rigs working in Sask on Oct 3, and only 26 were drilling for oil
Does it look like the end of December? No. But several oil companies working in Saskatchewan have shut down their drilling programs until the end of the year…
With oil prices now at US$94 per barrel, why is industry activity akin to when it was half that?
Oil prices are now US$94 a barrel, and yet oil industry activity levels in Saskatchewan are more like when it was US$40 a barrel. A lot of people in the industry…
How Saskatchewan goes big into nuclear
As the premier, minister and SaskPower officials have clearly indicated, if the federal Clean Electricity Regulations come to pass, this province has essentially no choice but to go big into nuclear.
How significant is Crescent Point’s attention turning from Saskatchewan to Alberta?
Earlier this week, I posted a significant story entitled, “Once Saskatchewan’s largest oil company, Crescent Point plans to spend 70% of its capex in Alberta.”
Despite the best oil prices since November, only 33 drilling rigs are working in Saskatchewan
With oil prices the highest they’ve been since November, 2022, drilling activity in Saskatchewan is not exactly flourishing.
Whitecap to buy CO2 from SaskPower until 2035, providing market for SaskPower’s BD3
What’s the future of coal-fired power generation in Saskatchewan? At least another 11 years.
Lower oil and potash prices and sales impact provincial revenues, but surplus still intact
Lower potash and oil prices have put a half-billion dent into Saskatchewan’s budget forecast, but the province is still forecasting a $485.5 million surplus at first quarter…
Sask funds nuclear specialist
Saskatchewan funds nuclear specialist for supply chain development of small modular reactors via SIMSA.
Are the federal Clean Electricity Standards impossible to meet? We asked SaskPower
Premier Scott Moe said Saskatchewan will not attempt the impossible when it comes to power production, in anticipation of impending federal regulations that would all but eliminate…