Scott Moe Burned Saskatchewan’s Future on a Fossil Fuel Farce

A decade of Sask Party lies and looted billions... and this time we're NOT talking about the health care system. Or K-12 education. Or the Saskatchewan Research Council. Or the Regina Bypass. Etc.

I wrote about Saskatchewan and coal for the first time almost exactly nine years ago.

Don’t read it!

Revisiting my old work isn’t my favorite thing to do. It’s factually accurate (I checked it again), but overly verbose. The point is there, but it takes too long to emerge - about six Exits too late. Compared to my current work, it’s strikingly timid, especially considering the harsh, baseless attacks the Sask Party launched against me for writing it.

In Saskatchewan, coal represents a saga of staggering ineptitude that’s only grown more grotesque under Scott Moe’s terrible leadership.

What I wrote about in that June 2016 piece was the rapidly unraveling narrative around one of SaskPower’s coal-fired units, Boundary Dam 3 (BD3), which had been retrofitted, for billions of dollars, with “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) technology.

Why did we need CCS?

Because Stephen Harper said so. In fact, it was Sask Party overlord Harper who tried to wipe out coal altogether.