Pipeline Online Podcast

Herb Pinder is a Saskatoon businessman and lawyer whose career includes sports agency and private equity, with a large focus on early stage energy companies. He's also a columnist with Western Standard, and has a lot of opinions on anthropogenic climate change and western independence.  

Brian Zinchuk and Bronwyn Eyre go over 2025 energy stories that affected Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe joins the Pipeline Online Podcast in his annual year-end interview. Moe agrees the coal decision is one of the most significant energy decisions this government has made in years. The discussion digs into that, Saskatchewan's move into nuclear, carbon capture, interties to Alberta's grid, and the Alberta-Canada MOU.  The multilateral well program, oil production goals, Saskatchewan's new energy and resources minister, lithium and hydrogen are also discussed. Recorded on Dec. 16. 

Estevan is the Energy City. This year saw the revival of its core industry - coal-fired power generation. That could eventually lead to more carbon capture, utilization and storage in the oilfield. Estevan is the chosen location for Saskatchewan's first planned nuclear power reactors. There's also a solar plant under construction, and an intertie to the US. Estevan is also spearheading a coal-to-graphite project and coal-to-hydrogen project.

Donny Duncan is president and CEO of Millennium Land, one of the prominent land agencies operating in Saskatchewan. He's a real, honest-to-God landman. You may have seen one on TV! We talk about the differences between what you might have seen on TV, and the very important role land agents have in resource development. 

There's been major developments this year in the mining portion of the energy sector. Saskatchewan is going to refurbish its coal fleet instead of shutting it down in four years. Major things are happening on the rollout of new nuclear reactors, meaning more uranium will be needed. New mines are in the works. Pam Schwann, president of the Saskatchewan Mining Association, joined the Pipeline Online Podcast to talk about it all. 

Estella Petersen is a member of Cowessess First Nation and is a heavy equipment operator for a large operator in the oilsands. She speaks of how she got there, and the opportunities for First Nations people such as herself. We don't have a lot of people who wear a hardhat all day, so her perspective is a little different. 

Grant Greenslade has spent many years in the junior producer space, first with a family oil business in southwest Saskatchewan and then through the first three Spartan companies. He's also a former councillor and mayor of Shaunavon, providing a southwest Sask perspective we don't get to hear a lot. 

Eric Anderson is the executive director of the Saskatchewan Industrial and Mining Suppliers Association, or SIMSA. They are holding an Energy Suppliers Forum in Regina on Oct. 8. SIMSA has also been tasked with puting together a supply chain for nuclear power development in Saskatchewan. 

Retired lawyer Andrew Roman joins the Pipeline Online Podcast to talk about the recent trend in climate change activist lawfare to use children as their frontmen and Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Roman has been around major project law going back as far as the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, and he just may have been the person to introduce the term "No More Pipelines Act." You might have heard of it.