electricity

Well before Alberta Premier Danielle Smith started talking about the Sovereignty Act, Ottawa was already taking steps to address the province’s concerns about being forced to prematurely shut down its natural gas power plants, says federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. Smith invoked the new legislation earlier this week in what she herself has acknowledged was […]

Premier Danielle Smith invoked Alberta’s sovereignty act on Monday to implement new measures in her fight against Ottawa’s looming clean electricity rules while conceding she didn’t need the act to put the changes in place. Smith said she wanted to invoke the act to send a message that her government is serious about pushing back […]

Carbon capture and storage is key to greening Canada’s electricity grid, but meeting the proposed time frame laid out by the federal government will be extremely difficult based on the current state of the technology, according to a new report.  The report also warns that if federal clean electricity regulations are too stringent, it could […]

Careful what you click on. SaskPower is warning about an e-mail scam designed to make people think they have missed their bill payment, and are about to be disconnected. The links in the email take the victims to external websites looking to gather personal information as well as credit card numbers. SaskPower would not send […]

There are a whole lot of wooden power poles in Saskatchwan, and Sask Power is inspecting about 97 thousand of them between now and the end of October. Crews have already started the inpection proccess in Fort Qu’Apelle, Maple Creek, Melfort, and many more areas. SaskPower says it has set aside 5.8 million dollars to […]

It’s been a busy afternoon for Sask Power in and around Regina, as they have had to deal with three outages, and some of stretched out of the city to places like Grey, and Riceton. Those outages were reported around 1:30, and have been restored. In the last hour there was a new outage in […]

Thursday night’s spring storm that brought freezing rain and strong winds to east-central Saskatchewan continues to be problematic for SaskPower. The company says 838 customers were still without service, as of 11 a.m. Sunday morning. In a news release, SaskPower says they are allocating as many available resources as possible to address and repair secondary […]

SaskPower crews continue trying to restore service to those who lost it because of Thursday night’s icestorm with an estimated 1,800 still without electricity. In a release issued Saturday afternoon, SaskPower says crews have been brought in from other parts of the province to assist in the damage assessment and repair in the Yorkton and […]

SaskPower crews are still assessing the damage caused by Thursday night’s ice storm. but say around 22,000 customers are still without power as of 5 p.m Friday afternoon. A release from SaskPower says a large challenge being faced by technicians is the ongoing risk of additional branches falling onto power lines so significant tree trimming […]

There are many communities in east and southeastern Saskatchewan that are without power because of freezing rain that hit the province. 10:17 AM: Freezing rain has caused a large volume of outages affecting customers in the E & SE parts of the province. Crews have been dispatched and are assessing the damage, but currently there […]