Those Prairie-Canadians Are Getting Uppity

Canada's national government has been doing its best to get to Net Zero by many methods including high carbon taxes.  Saskatchewan has long relied on coal for power.  Wind power sometimes drop to zero and solar power era reliably drops to zero on some poorly understood schedule that is probably an oil company conspiracy. 

6/18/25 PipelineOnline.ca:

"REGINA, ESTEVAN, CORONACH – For years, the conventional coal-fired power industry in Saskatchewan has been living under a death sentence, one to be carried out in four years, six months and 12 days from now. Federal regulations proclaimed the end of coal-fired power generation in Canada by 2030 as a way of reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to combat anthropogenic (manmade) climate change.

"On Wednesday, June 18, the Government of Saskatchewan issued a stay of execution, as it were. On that day, Minister of Crown Investments Corporation Minister and Minister Responsible for SaskPower Jeremy Harrison sent a letter to SaskPower workers, informing them that instead of shutting down its coal fleet, SaskPower would be rebuilding it, and operating it for years to come, as a bridge to nuclear power generation. That eventual nuclear adoption would lead to net zero emissions by 2050. That letter was also forwarded to Westmoreland Coal, which mines the lignite coal for Saskatchewan’s three coal-fired power stations."