Parallel lines have so much in common.
It’s a shame they’ll never meet.
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Did you know oil and gas is Saskatchewan’s largest industry, as measured by GDP?
You’d be forgiven if you thought agriculture was Saskatchewan’s largest industry.
Brian Crossman: I’m trying, I really am
I am. I’m really, really trying. I had a bit of a rough year health-wise, which of course leads to over-thinking your place in the world.
No Valentines date for rig hand
Don’t expect a drilling rig hand to make it to a Valentines date, because that’s the time of year they can make the most money.
Just as Alberta has had minimal wind power, so, too has Saskatchewan
Wind power generation in Alberta has flatlined twice in as many days, and as weather patterns typically flow from west to east…
Lithium in SK: Primacy of rights, revisited
Saskatchewan is facing a curious and perhaps perplexing dilemma. In addition to oil and gas, it is now seeing development of helium and soon lithium production, too.
Shell signs offtake agreement to buy LNG from second BC project
One of the world’s supermajor petroleum production companies is already heavily involved with Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) project…
Nova Scotia puts bullet in natural gas industry
Nova Scotia and federal government put final bullet in the head of still-twitching offshore gas play.
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…
Only eight rigs drilling for oil in southeast Saskatchewan: drilling rig report
Drilling activity in Saskatchewan on Nov. 21 was notably lower in three regions, and up a bit in the fourth.
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…
Decent oil prices but many rigs not drilling
Even though the past year has seen relatively decent oil prices, as high as US$94 per barrel a few weeks ago, Saskatchewan has not seen a related increase in drilling activity.
If you haven’t noticed, oil prices have been cratering in recent days
If you haven’t been paying attention over the last week or two, oil prices have been tanking, and tanking hard.
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…
All parties unify behind NDP carbon tax motion
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.”
Can solar power essentially flatline for a whole day? It did in Alberta on Monday
Just because the sun comes up in the morning, it does not mean its going to produce much in the way of usable solar power.
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.
Convoy leaders 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.