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BY KARA KINNASoutheast College has issued a request for proposals

looking for space for the college in Moosomin.The college’s current lease expires in June of 2020 and

the college is looking for a facility to accommodate Moo-

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newing that lease.

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say are we doing the best we can in the best place we can. It’s just a stewardship piece for us.

“It’s the right thing to do and we do this in all of our communities where we lease space.”

What would the ideal location include?“What we would like to have is something probably a

little bit bigger than what we have right now that is eco-

“Because that’s one of the things I think I can pride our

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and then stop offering them, and offer something new. So you need to have a space that accommodates that too. So

“And we have to be economical because we do try very

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BY KEVIN WEEDMARKBorderland Co-op plans to build a new two-storey of-

Seniors’ Drop-In Centre.The Co-op purchased the building with the intention of

adding a second storey, but found that there are complica-

and came to the conclusion that it makes more sense to demolish the current building and build new.

“What happened is we found there is some foundation-al work that would have to be done to support two sto-reys,” Borderland Co-op General Manager Jason Schenn said Thursday.

“We were looking at the work that would have to be

-ommendation was to take it back to the grade and rebuild.

“It has concrete walls—it’s composite construction so

foam and another two inches of concrete. You would have to peel off the interior concrete and repour the interior to

makes more sense to take it down and rebuild new. Then you have new construction from the foundation up.”

Borderland hopes to begin construction this summer.

“We’ll get all our permits in place before we do any-thing,” said Schenn. “Before we do our demolition we will make sure we have our building permit in place. Our

pretty simple build.”

“It was a case of trying to squeeze enough space into -

thing that will last us 25. This plan will give us a long-term building.”

The demolition permit was approved at Wednesday’s town council meeting.

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Southeast College issues RFP for Moosomin

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BY KARA KINNAAt their meeting Tues-

day, Moosomin Chamber of Commerce members heard a presentation from Crystal Spooner, the CEO of Orange Tree Living, about the possibility of developing a seniors hous-ing/children’s day care fa-cility in Moosomin.

Spooner developed the

care home facilities in Saskatchewan, and is in-terested in exploring the development of something similar in Moosomin, pos-sibly combining seniors housing and daycare ele-ments, and food services that would be available to both residents and the public.

At one of her facilities in Regina—Orange Tree Vil-lage which is now Harbour Landing Village—there is housing for seniors, a day care, housing for people with special needs, and housing for university students. There is also a restaurant and coffee shop open to the public, as well as multiple common spac-es, such as a library. The facility is interactive, and the different people living there spend time together in different capacities.

For seniors, the facil-ity provides options for independent living, sup-portive living, and assisted living. As residents’ needs change, they can access ad-ditional services and age in place.

At the Chamber meet-ing on Tuesday, Spooner explained how Orange Tree Living came to be. She says her mom, a nurse who worked in Weyburn, approached the govern-ment in the early 1980s wondering if so many acute care beds needed to be tied up by seniors wait-ing for long-term care, and if there should be more seniors housing available. The government told her they felt there was enough housing, so Spooner says her mom and dad decided to sell their farm and take on the challenge of pro-viding seniors housing on their own.

“I was born and raised within this industry. I was maybe nine years old when mom started. I had an opportunity to grow up with lots of grandmas and grandpas everywhere. It was an amazing childhood experience,” says Spooner.

Spooner says she even-tually began to work within her family’s care

homes. She says at the time the government was phasing out Level 1 and Level 2 care and a num-ber of communities asked what would happen to the people where the facilities were closing.

“So we worked with a number of communities

we helped raised investor capital to do it as a joint partnership, and some we purchased ourselves,” she says. “Over my time with my mom we had just shy of 200 beds across south-ern Saskatchewan, and those were licensed per-sonal care beds.”

Spooner says her mom eventually decided to retire and so Spooner purchased three smaller homes within Regina and decided to settle there and make Regina home.

She says she eventu-ally started going to some real estate investment networking events and learned about grants that Sask Housing was offer-ing, looking for ideas to increase housing for vul-nerable populations. She submitted a proposal for 24 licensed seniors beds and 20 children and four post-secondary school stu-dents.

“I wanted to have that volunteer component and the opportunity for them (the students) to develop and enrich their clinical

component,” she says. “If you were in nursing you would have a chance to ap-ply everything and come out of school with a very solid resume.”

Spooner—who is a nurse herself, and has her mas-ters degree in business—says as she became more experienced in offering in-tegrated and intergenera-tional living, she noticed not just a positive effect on the seniors, but on the chil-dren as well. For example, she witnessed kids with literacy problems improve their skills, and kids with anxiety issues be integrat-ed back into their schools

-dence due to their relation-ships.

“From there our mission statement was crafted: To enhance quality of life through quality care,” she says. “I am very passion-ate that we can do things a little bit different than how we have in the past. I believe within the Orange Tree brand that we can cre-ate villages within neigh-borhoods. Children need villages, but so do all of us. We all need a place where we can interact with other people and feel like we be-long.”

She says after ground broke on Orange Tree Vil-lage in Regina, they were also approached about ac-commodating people with special needs and intellec-

tual disabilities, something they decided to work into their care model at Orange Tree Village. She says this worked well, with one resident with intelectual disabilities eventually be-coming a paid employee at the coffee shop in Orange Tree Village.

Spooner showed Cham-ber members photos of some of the residents at the facility—from a retired nurse who likes children, to students who put in volunteer hours there in exchange for accommo-dations, to people with dementia, to one woman who even had four dogs and simply needed a short-term home.

“We really found that this model applied to and was attractive to a number of people of different ages and abilities,” said Spoon-er.

Spooner said the other great part about the facil-ity was that, because areas like the coffee shop and restaurant were open to the public, it allowed the community to come into the facility, ensuring the facility was also part of the wider community, which

residents. She said inside the coffee shop or restau-rant, on any given day, you wouldn’t know who was a resident and who just came in off the street.

“If you are travelling

through town and you sit down in the restaurant you wouldn’t know who is a client that lives there and who isn’t and you wouldn’t know who needs assistance or has assis-tance or supports and who doesn’t,” she says. “So it’s a nice way to meet people where they are at and pro-vide what’s needed, but in

approach to health care.”She says there were also

community spaces within the building allowing for community programs to be run out of that build-ing. “It was very diverse in terms of the programming offered there.”

Spooner also rolled out some stats that showed just how important social interaction is to people’s health. She said 75 per cent of the secret to longevity is lifestyle versus 25 per cent based on genetics, and that social interaction and close relationships are seen as two of the main keys to longevity. She also added that lonely people are 30 per cent more likely to suf-fer stroke or heart disease.

“Our approach to health care is have fun. Get messy,

play in the dirt, I want to

really about creating those moments, it’s not about the end product,” she says.

She concluded by say-ing that the care priorities for Orange Tree Living in-clude social connections, more “third spaces” or common areas, collabora-

-nancial burden by provid-ing smaller homes, a less institutional approach and feeling to health care, and a multi generational ap-proach.

“We are all in this to-gether, we can create our future together,” she said.

After her presentation there were a number of questions. Larry Scammell, Senior Business Consul-tant with Firebird Business Consulting, was also on hand to answer questions. Chamber member Sinc Harrison asked what the next step for the communi-ty would be and Scammell said they are currently just starting the conversation, collecting feedback, en-gaging stakeholders in the community, and looking at land.

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Crystal Spooner and Larry Scammell at the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday.

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Continued from page 3Kevin Weedmark asked what the small-

est and highest number of clients would be for a facility in a town the size of Moo-somin, and Spooner said it would depend

that around 40 long-term care spaces could work (not including day care spac-es).

Neil Russell asked what level of care would be provided and Spooner re-plied that it would depend on the client, and that they really wanted to provide a “menu” of care to people, so that they could pick and choose different levels of care and different kinds of care when they needed them.

Bill Thorn asked if their model would

be privately funded, and Spooner said it would depend on what the community wanted, and that is could be entirely pri-vately funded or it could be a combina-tion model.

Alyssa Jeannot, who is on the day care committee in Moosomin, asked if the day care would be private and Spooner said that the day care in Regina was private, but that it wouldn’t have to be in Mooso-min. “I’m on the day care board, and the government hasn’t given us the day care spaces (for a new day care), so a private day care might get you further,” said Jean-not.

Brenda Higgins said that her mother had lived in Harbour Landing Village in Regina and loved it. “Speaking to the multigenerational component, my mom spent four weeks in Harbour Landing Vil-lage and it was a wonderful place but one of the thing she enjoyed the most was that it wasn’t just old people, in her words,” she said. “She loved those kids. They had grandmas and grandpas. They did things with them. The young people with dis-abilities, they bring another light to it, and I think that’s something that we need to play more attention to. I think it’s healthy

for all those levels.”A number of people at the meeting also

commented that they thought this would be a good idea for the town of Moosomin, and overall reaction to Spooner’s presen-tation was positive.

In other Chamber news:

• Andrew Stacey spoke about the Kins-men’s Kickoff to Summer on June 8. The event includes a steak and shrimp supper followed by a hypnotist show, live auction and DJ. He told Chamber members there are only 200 seats available so they should get seats soon if they want to buy a table or tickets. All proceeds from the event are going to the Moosomin airport upgrade.

• Greg Nosterud said the idea had been pitched of holding a town-wide garage sale on the same weekend as the town-wide cleanup. He asked how much support there would be for something like this, and Chamber members wer on board. However the event will be tabled until 2020, as an organizer for the event will need to be found.

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BY KARA KINNAEsterhazy Town Council passed their 2019 budget at

their regular council meeting last week, opting to leave the mill rate the same, but increase the base tax for both commercial and residential properties by $100.

The mill rate will remain the same at 6.5 mills for resi-dential property and 1.7 mills for commercial property.

The base tax will increase from $800 to $900 on residen-tial property and from $1,000 to $1,100 for commercial property. The base tax increase will bring in an additional $122,100.

Mayor Grant Forster says the increase in the base tax is a way for the town to bring in more revenue that is needed for capital projects, such as the prep work for a new water treatment plant, without having to cut costs elsewhere.

“We needed to increase revenue slightly because of some of the projects that we have going on,” he says. “Even though we haven’t got the go ahead yet with the water treatment plant it’s going to cost us money to do the prep work, so we need funds coming in to try and prep ourselves for that.

“It was also done that way so that we didn’t have to cut any costs anywhere else. It’s a case of where you want to maintain everything that you’re doing, but you’ve got this big project hanging over your head that you have to fund.”

Forster says the town of Esterhazy has traditionally pre-ferred to increase the base tax as opposed to the mill rate.

“The reason behind that is, essentially, the service that everyone gets is covered by the base tax,” he says. “We try to maintain that sense of fairness with everyone and when we do an analysis on what our base tax is and what people get for that cost, it comes pretty close.

“We know we have an increase in some of the things

bage removal, and snow removal. Instead of a mill rate increase we went with the base tax increase instead. That way it recognizes the fact that the other services are go-ing up in cost and we needed to spread that evenly across everyone in town as opposed to just a general mill rate

increase.”Forster says there are also some new capital expendi-

tures in this year’s budget.“The big one is paving,” he says. “Our amount in the

budget for paving is about $250,000, and that’s not for new paving. There is one street in town that is currently gravel that we are going to pave, but the rest of it is for recapping and repairs. Street repairs are one of our biggest individual costs.

“We will have new paving on Schafer Street which is on the south end of town. It’s the street that runs just to the west of the existing hospital. The reason we chose to do that street is because there is a lot happening there with public health and home care. It’s a case of where even if we had the shovels in the ground for the new hospital to-day, we would still have to maintain the old hospital for a number of years yet. It’s a very busy street. That is one that we recognize needs to be paved just to bring it up to par. The ambulance uses it a lot.

“We plan to pave the existing streets that aren’t paved next year.”

The town has budgeted $264,000 this year for the water treatment plant project.

“Right now it is just strictly the prep work,” says For-ster. “Around $264,000 is for engineering, the pilot project, things we can do pending the receipt of the grants. If we don’t get the grants, it is work that has to be done one way or the other. Even if we have to fund it all on our own and change the design and the size of the plant, whatever we are doing now is required for that.”

The town has also budgeted $60,000 for ball diamond repair.

“When the reservoir was built behind the arena two or three years ago, it took out one of the ball diamonds that we had back there. Council agreed that they would re-build the ball diamond that we lost. We have been getting a lot of pressure from minor ball to get that done and back into service,” says Forster.

Also in this year’s budget is $20,000 for a dog park.

“In a survey that was done a couple of years back, one

a dog park,” says Forster. “We have approved the installa-tion of a dog park. We plan to put that on the east side of town by the regional college. The funds for that are in the budget this year. Hopefully we get it going soon and have it in place for the fall.

“We put a lot of money into recreational facilities but a lot of people don’t take advantage of those facilities,” he adds. “Their recreation is to go out walking with their animals, and we recognize the fact that some people don’t have traditional types of recreation activities. This is some-thing we can do to help those individuals that don’t take part in skating or curling or those kind of things. It’s a way that their tax money can be used so they can take part in some recreational stuff too.”

Forster says the town is taking in only slightly more in taxation this year than last year. The Provincial Rev-enue Sharing was $498,066 for 2018 and and anticipated $512,530 will be coming for 2019.

Forster says it’s tough working on the budget.“The budget is challenging and you have to do the best

you can with the money you have and realize the fact that nobody likes to pay more, but at the same time sometimes you don’t have that luxury of saying you can’t pay more.

“We are facing the water treatment plant project. We are trying to manage that the best we can with the resources that we have. We are fortunate to have some money put away for that and we are hoping that by the time all is said and done we won’t have to have a huge tax increase to cover it. We are very hopeful that we can do that and if we have to hold the line on other spending, then we will have to.

“Budgeting is a challenging thing to do but we hope ev-eryone is aware of and understands what it is we have to do, and as always we welcome suggestions. Any member of council or community can speak to what’s in the budget and why we are doing things. It’s their money, they have the right to talk to us.”

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Esterhazy Town Council passes budgetMill rate stays the same, base tax increases

As I go through the stats for the report-ing period, I wonder what sort of miracle it’s going to take to help people save them-selves from themselves? The amount of money people are spending on speeding

Here’s what I’ve got for you this week:

Traffic action

already concluded, there was no shortage of work. People were warned or charged for the following: Speeding x16; Disobey a stop sign x2; No Insurance x2; and Dis-tracted Driving x1. Again, this made up the bulk of our work for this week, and it’s discouraging to think of all the fun things that cash could go to rather than the gov-ernment.

Excessive speeders fined

Cst. Pomeroy clocked one individual

for that was a cool $832, and were she a bit meaner, Cst. Pomeroy could have un-loaded on this guy a lot worse.

Could it get worse, you may ask? Well it did for another dude, whom Cst. Pome-roy clocked driving his motorcycle at 175 km/hr on Highway 1. Seriously. That

ing judgey, I think most would agree it’s fundamentally stupid to go that fast. Espe-cially on a motorbike, and especially when it’s 10 at night and darker than the inside of a cow.

Speaking of cows, it would be also trag-ic should one of our bovine besties have wandered out onto the highway when our fearless hero was tooting along at that speed. Bad judgement, and Cst. Pomeroy may have saved this guy from a worse fate than being out a thousand bucks.

Truck hit while driver sleeps

A hit and run was reported by a semi driver who was parked for a sleep at the Co-op card lock and when he woke up he discovered damage to his rig. I guess he’s a sound sleeper.

Erratic drivers reported

We additionally received reports of an erratic driver near a school which Cst. Brace will undoubtedly handle well, and a BOLO from the Virden guys wanting

us to attempt to intercept an erratic driv-er reported westbound at Kirkella. Cst. Pomeroy had no luck locating that vehicle, which is likely a good thing for that person since she appears to be on a bit of a roll.

Burnt out vehicle found

Your members responded to a report of a burnt out vehicle in the RM of Martin. It had clearly been there for some time and the VIN was burnt beyond being able to be read. We have secured the vehicle and will have to get a member with the right training to locate the VIN on this vehicle to ID the owner. Burnt out vehicles tend to be one of two things—an insurance fraud of some type or else it was stolen and burnt to destroy any evidence identifying the thief. This very well could have been burnt last fall when there was a rash of thieves run-ning around here.

False alarms

Four false alarms this week which oc-curred at a business and two schools. We didn’t attend to one of them and only went to the other two because we were in the area and your members feel a strong sense of duty towards alarms that maybe all of us don’t share as passionately.

Vandalism in Fairlight

A vandalism was reported in Fairlight where some windows on a property were damaged. Cst. Wang is currently investi-

identify a suspect.

Other newsOther than that, we’ve had it under con-

trol here the past week. Cst. Brace was out and about giving a talk about driving as

(shout out to my fans!) as well as giving a drug talk last Thursday. She’s also been engaged with the schools and continuing to do a great job for your hard earned dol-lars. She has also been the recipient of a

like, but seriously, who doesn’t like a high

As you can tell, your members were busy contributing locally to National Safe Driving Week and Impaired Driving En-forcement Day. No impaireds located, which is good, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there. We also didn’t issue any roadside suspensions or perform any roadside sobriety tests which is also good.

We’ll be picking up our new vehicle this week to replace the one Cst. Ross sent to early retirement a few months back, and we also have been assisting other units and working collaboratively on some pro-active initiatives. Can’t tell you, secret handshake stuff.

This week’s words of wisdom come from Wayne Gretzky. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Go get ‘em!

Don’t forget! Town hall at the CanAlta in Moosomin this Wednesday at 6:30 pm. You’ll be provided some stats, maybe get a bit of background on how things are go-ing for policing in your area, and anyone who can make Cpl. Fleming smile will be entitled to a Coke! Hope to see you there!

This burnt out vehicle was found in the RM of Martin.

Environmental groups, including the Da-vid Suzuki Foundation, remain enamoured of renewable energy, telling followers that the “global push for cleaner, healthier energy is on. With costs dropping dramatically, renewable energy is becoming the best choice for the en-vironment and the economy.”

The Green Party of Canada is on board, tout-ing the idea that Alberta “should be ready” to go to 100 per cent renewables.

And the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada says that not only can we go 100 per cent wind, water and solar for “all purposes,” we can reap a windfall by doing it.

Renewable Cities notes cities going big for the 100 per cent dream include Edmonton, Banff and Victoria.

Into all this green dreaming steps Mark Mills, an energy analyst with the Manhattan Institute. He recently published a report (The “New Energy Economy”: An exercise in Magi-cal Thinking) that pokes many holes in the idea that wind, solar power and energy storage will provide 100 per cent of the power that drives our economy.

provide about two per cent of the world’s en-ergy—a long way from 100 per cent. In fact, reaching 100 per cent over the next 20 years would require global renewable energy to in-

took 50 years for global oil and gas production to increase by 10-fold.

Mills gleefully dives into his physics back-ground to debunk the notion that wind/so-lar/batteries will follow the same trajectory as Moore’s law for transistors—that the number of transistors per chip would increase two-fold every two years. Moore offers an observa-tion: “If photovoltaics scaled by Moore’s law, a single postage-stamp-size solar array would power the Empire State Building. If batteries scaled by Moore’s law, a battery the size of a book, costing three cents, could power an A380 [airbus] to Asia.”

Yes, wind power, solar power and batter-

new technologies often do), showing a 10-fold reduction in costs. But the days of 10-fold in-creases are behind us in the solar power sec-tor, so renewables have a long road before they compete with fossil fuels.

According to Mills, for the same US$1 mil-lion, solar panels could produce about 40 mil-lion kilowatt hours (Kw) of electricity over a 30-year lifecycle. For the same $1 million, mod-ern wind turbines can produce 55 million kW

over 30 years. Those are impressive gains. But Mills points out that same $1 million worth of hardware for a shale rig would produce enough natural gas over 30 years to generate more 300 million kW.

Moreover, the physical limit of capturing en-ergy with wind turbines (called the Betz lim-it) is about 60 per cent. Current wind turbine technologies already push close to that limit, capturing 45 per cent of wind’s kinetic energy. There’s no 10-fold increase for wind in the fu-ture.

The same is true of solar photovoltaic cells. Here, Mills observes, the theoretical limit of ef-

about 33 per cent—33 per cent of the photons striking the solar cells are converted into elec-trons. The best commercial photovoltaic cells now capture around 26 per cent. Like wind, they’re pressing toward the limit.

On the battery front, Mills picks on every-one’s favorite poster child, Elon Musk and the batteries for his Teslas. To store the ener-gy equivalent of one 300-pound barrel of oil, you’d need 20,000 pounds worth of Tesla bat-teries. And while Mills sees promising technol-ogies on the horizon—non-lithium materials

to 300 per cent)—those gains don’t constitute a 10-fold improvement over current battery tech-nologies.

Finally, Mills observes that energy revolu-tions remain beyond the horizon and can only dawn through the basic sciences—not product development. But he notes that 95 per cent of private-sector research and development (and

-velopment, not basic research.

Governments must stop pandering to the idea we can let our fossil fuel infrastructure languish, since we’ll clearly be stranded as we quickly move to the great green energy future. We’ll need fossil fuels for many decades and it’s time policy-makers get their eyes on the prize and drop all the “magical thinking.”

Kenneth Green is an analyst at the Fraser Insti-tute.

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Politicians haveallowed judges to usurp too much

powerCanadians have never been that interested in who sits on our top court. We should be

-pointment of Justice Glenn Joyal, Chief Justice of the Manitoba Court of

between the treatment of judiciary appointments in Canada and the Unit-ed States.

Why do Canadians not pay more attention to appointments to our highest court and the impact the Charter of Rights has on our democ-racy?

Who sits on the U.S. Supreme Court is of crucial importance there. Americans’ ‘Supremes’ rule on the constitutionality of virtually every-thing important.

Who is or is not appointed to their highest court can have a profound

Trump may be a conservative Supreme Court.Canadians have never been that interested in who sits on our top court.

That’s because—until 1982—the personal views of judges didn’t matter all that much. Their main role was to interpret laws passed by elected representatives.

This changed fundamentally when the Charter of Rights of Freedoms came into being. Now, a judge’s personal views became extremely im-portant.

Many issues formerly decided by politicians are now decided by our courts.

Judges fall generally into two camps:• Those who could be called conservatives believe that judges should

be reluctant to become involved in matters that were formerly dealt with by the people’s elected representatives.

• Judges in the other camp are generally more activist, or intervention-ist—more inclined to make new law.

An example of an activist decision was the Supreme Court’s Haida Na-tion case.

In 2004, a decidedly activist Supreme Court literally invented a “duty to consult” Indigenous communities when development is being consid-ered on any lands considered to be part of their “traditional territories.”

Today’s stalled pipelines and other development opportunities are a result. The Haida example of judicial activism has proved to be a job-eating monster.

Another disadvantage of having something become a court-decided constitutional right is that a court-decided right becomes constitutionally enshrined—and almost impossible to reverse.

No Canadian politician will try the constitutional change route after the failures of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords to amend the Constitution.

Elected representatives are answerable to the electorate. Courts are not—and they’re ill-equipped to judge how much money a decision will cost Canadian taxpayers. Money is not even a main consideration for the courts.

The courts are too often thrust into a role that should be handled by elected bodies, with elected bodies more inclined to dump intractable is-sues into the courts.

And too many judges are willing to usurp what should be a legislative function.

The Haida case is one example of the many crucially important Charter decisions that have changed many aspects of our lives.

Joyal gave a profoundly important speech on the proper role of judges

in the conservative camp).

view the Charter and how it has changed the Canadian polity. He even suggested we risk a “consequential intellectual complacency” if we don’t ask those questions. Is the diminished role of our elected representatives a cause for concern?

Is the diminished role of our elected representatives a cause for con-cern?

This editorial was written by Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge and a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre For Public Policy.

We’re still decades away fromrenewables providing 100% of the

power that drives our economy

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Canada can, and should, supply our responsibly pro-duced energy to the rest of the world. Being allowed to do so would allow us to obtain fair value for our natu-ral resources, and help the world meet growing energy demand.

Yet we continue to impede on our own ability to get our energy products to market. Market access con-

-ers, are holding us back.

Globally, one billion people do not have electricity and three billion people use fuels like wood or biomass to cook, impacting their health, quality of life and en-vironment. By 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects there will be another 1.7 billion people in the world, mostly added to areas still pulling them-selves out of poverty.

Along with this population growth, global energy demand is expected to increase by 27 per cent. Oil and natural gas will remain the dominant sources of energy well into the future.

Canada has an opportunity to meet this demand with responsible energy produced the Canadian way.

Demand for natural gas is expected to increase 43 per cent in the next two decades, and by 2040, the IEA projects it will supply one-quarter of total energy con-sumed in the world. Canada should capitalize on the

Canadian LNG can play a key role in reducing glob-

generation in China, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe. Seventy per cent of China’s emissions—which account for more than one-quarter of global

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duction.Canada’s contribution to reducing global GHGs

must be recognized domestically and internationally and count toward our commitment under the Paris

-nationally Transferable Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs), between participating nations. This was debated ex-tensively in December 2018, but the United Nations Conference of the Parties only reached draft decisions.

The discussion will continue at their next meeting later this year. The Canadian government needs to

ITMOs, and look beyond our borders to take a global perspective on emissions reduction.

meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement, while growing our LNG industry to meet global mar-ket demand. If Canada received 50 per cent credit on

or exceed our commitment under the Paris Agreement.It is time for Canada to unlock the potential of our

energy industry to achieve full domestic and global

The path forward must include a clear government

commitment to resource development, a competitive

enabling new projects to be approved and constructed in a timely manner.

CAPP is calling for the government to withdraw Bill C-48, which proposes a tanker moratorium on a sig-

Canadian petroleum products from traveling those waters and getting out to new markets.

Ironically, Bill C-48 will only block the export of Canadian-produced petroleum products; it cannot stop foreign vessels from carrying the same products through the same waters.

Bill C-48 also creates new barriers to Indigenous economic opportunity and self-determination. Groups such as the Eagle Spirit Chiefs Council, the Indian Re-source Council, and the National Coalition of Chiefs have all expressed concerns.

The federal government’s proposed Bill C-69—un-der Senate review—is also problematic. This overhaul of the regulatory approvals process will only make the

are made to Bill C-69.New pipelines and the expansion of existing infra-

structure are critical to the future of the industry. Mar-ket access constraints must be resolved.

oil and natural gas markets. The bottom line is, we need to be competitive on a global scale to achieve the things we all value—responsibly produced resources

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Crews will be working on right-of-way this summerWhat happens after Enbridge’s Line 3

replacement pipeline is in the ground?With construction of the Line 3 replace-

ment pipeline essentially complete in Can-ada, the process of reclamation—returning the land to its former use and productive capability—is set to begin in Saskatch-ewan and Manitoba.

Banister Pipelines is overseeing the work on behalf of Enbridge over approximately 280 kilometres from Regina, through the Moosomin area, to Cromer.

A crew of approximately 180 is mobiliz-ing to begin about June 10 and working their way southeast from Regina.

Weather permitting, the expectation is the crews will be in the Moosomin area around mid-August and likely using the

during this time.“Our promise is to restore the pipeline

right-of-way to as good or better condi-tion than it was before construction, and to minimize the long-term impact to the land along our pipelines,” says Allen Sawatzky, Construction Manager for the Line 3 proj-ect.

“Before construction takes place, we obtain regulatory approval and the envi-ronmental permits which prescribe spe-

proven to be successful in past projects.”

year following construction. However, it can take longer, depending on weather and other environmental conditions. The

-ence of workers. As the work winds down, crew sizes diminish as well.

A critical component of right-of-way reclamation involves working with land-owners, from the outset of a project, to

items that will be addressed during and

after construction.“This could include things like repairing

fences, driveways or landscaping, seeding hay land and native prairie areas, long-term erosion control measures in environ-mentally sensitive areas, and special care to be taken when working around live-stock,” Sawatzky explains.

During excavation for the Line 3 replace-ment pipeline, topsoil was separated from the subsoil to ensure the land remains productive for agricultural purposes after construction.

The land is re-contoured to maintain drainage patterns, hay land and native prairie areas are reseeded, cultivated land is prepared for planting, and wetlands and watercourses are stabilized and revegetat-ed to prevent erosion and ensure habitat is restored for the many plants and wildlife along the line.

“Although most temporary workspaces will be allowed to grow back, we will gen-

erally maintain an approximately 12-me-tre-wide permanent right-of-way free of structures, trees and shrubs so that the pipeline is visible during aerial inspec-tions and accessible in the case of an emer-gency,” Sawatzky adds.

-lamation, crews have been out and about in all of the 2018 construction areas mak-ing sure everything is okay during spring breakup.

out there doing general maintenance,” Sawatzky says. “Topping up gravel here and there, some erosion control, sign maintenance, gate repairs, hydroseed-ing—things like that,” he says. “We’re talking with landowners and staying on top of it.”

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put some mats down, and got it across,” Sawatzky says. “And he’s happy because we were able to do it the next morning.”

The Reclamation ProcessEnbridge takes numerous measures to

minimize the long-term impact along their pipeline rights-of-way. Here are the steps involved:

• After pipe installation but prior to topsoil replacement, environmental crews respond to subsidence and/or drainage is-sues that create access problems for farm-ers or landowners, public safety issues, or to prevent environmental issues such as erosion;

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BY KEVIN WEEDMARKOne day after the Senate transport com-

mittee rejected the federal moratorium on oil tankers in northern B.C., the energy committee that studied C-69 voted to ap-prove 187 amendments to the bill, which would make developing resource projects

Senator Michael MacDonald happens to be a member of both the Senate Transport Committee that rejected Bill C-48, and is the deputy chair of the Senate Energy Com-mittee that proposed all the amendments to Bill C-69.

He said the senators’ amendments came from groups and governments across the country.

“We heard from the Canadian Asso-ciation of Petroleum Producers, from the workers in these industries, from commu-

provinces,” he said. We went to people who knew what they were talking about on the impact of the bill. The independent sena-tors had a number of amendments as well. We gave them our support, and we got ours passed, and now it’s up to the govern-ment to decide which of those 187 they’re going to keep.

“One of the most important amendments we proposed is curtailing the minister’s ability to go in there and arbitrarily shut everything down because they feel like it.

“Another one is stopping intervenors from coming in from anywhere in the

up.“We’re pleased that we got a lot of our

amendments on the table. Now we’ll see. When the government is run by a bunch of idealogues I don’t expect too much, un-fortunately. Hope springs eternal, but this is not a government that has been open to accepting too many things unless you put them in a corner.”

MacDonald said the amended bill now goes back to the Senate. “It goes to third reading, and it can be amended at third reading, so I expect there may be more amendments to come. They’re voted on by the entire Senate.

“Once the bill is eventually called, I as-sume it will pass, and then it will go back to the House, where they will have to decide which amendments they’re going to accept and which ones they’re not.”

The bill will go back before the senate for third reading during the last week of May, and then it goes back to the House of Com-mons.

What did MacDonald learn in the hear-ings on Bill C-69?

“I always thought it was problematic. I always thought it was undermining na-tional unity,” he said. “But in the hearings

I learned that there is a much better under-standing in the West of what it’s doing to the economy.”

Moosomin’s economic development committee was among those that submit-ted briefs to the Senate Energy Committee on Bill C-69. The community had earlier hosted an energy rally with federal Conser-vative leader Andrew Scheer, Sask Premier Scott Moe, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, and Senator Denise Batters.

MacDonald said he believes the commu-nity had an impact on the national debate.

“The brief got read and looked at and as-sessed, and we had a lot of briefs from a lot of communities and groups that led to those amendments.

“The one thing I noticed about this bill—you see a lot of bills where all you get is

this bill was the number of independently sourced letters from people who have great experience and insight into the oil and gas industry, engineering, mining, investment, movement of capital. Just a really great cross-section of well-educated and profes-sional people who have written in with in-sights that we never would have got sitting around the table in Ottawa. Certainly not from the bureaucrats.

“You have engineers who have worked both upstream and downstream over a 40-45 year period. They’re pretty knowledg-able and it shows.

“I was impressed by the amount of well-written independent correspondence we received on this bill from people who have something to say.

“People who are well-versed in industry and managing environmental issues and managing growth, and have a lot of experi-ence in some of these industries are fully cognizant of the damage this bill could do

when it comes to investment in this country and competing with the rest of the world.”

He said the pipeline rally in Moosomin also had an impact on the national debate.

“The attention paid to that rally in Moosomin had an impact when it comes to helping educate the public in general. Whether it has any impact on the govern-ment is another story.

“And whether it has any impact on cer-tain power elements in the country is an-other story.”

Where does he think the bill will go from here?

“I think it will pass before the election. Do I have any faith in the government when it comes to the oil and gas industry? No, not really. Not after what I’ve witnessed up

there for the past number of years. I’m hop-ing for the best.”

MacDonald said he believes the lack of pipelines puts Canada at a disadvantage.

“We have a common market in oil in North America. Basically it’s a free market. We operate with the Americans. They’re taking our oil at discounted prices and put-

U.S. I don’t blame them for that. We have to sell it there, because we can’t get it onto the world market. All the money is bleed-ing out of this country and going there, and the Americans are producing more oil than ever, and they’re selling it on the world market. They have the best of both worlds, and we have the worst. You can’t blame them. They’re just doing what the market lets them do.”

He said he is happy with the work the

-leagues an myself did. I’m glad that we in-sisted on doing the work in the senate that wasn’t done well enough in the Commons.

“We have a responsibility. If we see a bill

the government in so many ways, economi-cally, socially and everything else, then I think we have an obligation to try to make it better. But the government doesn’t have

the bill with the Canadian public. We’ll see if we raised it with the government.

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The Targeted Mineral Exploration Incentive (TMEI) is leading to increased drilling activity for base metals,

near Creighton and creating tangible opportunities for future mining investment in Saskatchewan.

Developed in consultation with industry, TMEI is part of the Government of Saskatchewan’s Mineral De-velopment Strategy announced in 2017.

The 2019-20 Budget continues to support this strategy by providing the overall funding level for the TMEI pro-gram, which is established on an annual basis, to a max-imum of $750,000 per year. Seven successful applica-tions were received for the 2018-19 incentive program, indicating a total of 110 new drill holes and proposed expenditures of more than $6.5 million in the eligibil-ity area. Some examples of metals and minerals being explored for include: copper, gold, nickel and zinc. Eli-gible companies will receive a grant of up to $50,000 per year for drilling in the target area.

“The Mineral Development Strategy is about diversi-

in the mineral resources sector,” Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre said. “This exploration incen-tive will promote the discovery of new mineral resource opportunities, which in turn can generate jobs and eco-

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pects for development right here in Saskatchewan.”The program has had other measurable impacts, in-

cluding a net increase of more than 628,000 hectares of new mineral dispositions acquired and more than 600 downloads of raw data and maps of provincially-fund-ed geophysical surveys, since its initial public release.

“New mineral discoveries are made by drilling,” Sas-katchewan Mining Association President Pam Schwann said. “By incentivizing on-the-ground investment for under-explored commodities, companies will progress Saskatchewan’s rich and diverse mineral prospects into

tomorrow’s mines. The targeted incentive program has already demonstrated an excellent return on investment and we are appreciative of the government’s initiative to increase exploration investments for base and pre-cious metals and diamonds.”

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nies to raise capital for some time now,” Forum Energy Metals Corp President and CEO Rick Mazur said. “The

our Janice Lake copper project. We knew in the long run the TMEI grant would reduce shareholder dilution.

successfully revived a base metal project that was dor-

Development Strategy for implementing this program.”“MAS Gold Corp. is focused on gold exploration in

the La Ronge Green Belt,” MAS Gold Corp. Vice Pres-ident of Exploration David Tupper said. “Thanks to Saskatchewan’s proactive support of the mining indus-try, MAS Gold has been able to develop a strong ex-ploration strategy built upon not only great geology, but also the very positive attitude and support of the government. It is good for both the company and our shareholders to be working with motivated experts, both government and private, excellent service compa-nies and a supportive local workforce on our explora-tion programs.”

The Mineral Development Strategy includes three components. In addition to the TMEI, the strategy in-creases the number of airborne geophysical surveys tar-geting an area of base metal potential west and south-west of Creighton/Flin Flon and Denare Beach and ground-based geological investigations in northeastern Saskatchewan by the Saskatchewan Geological Survey. Some of these are set to take place this summer. More information can be found at www.saskatchewan.ca/mineral-exploration-incentive.

More than $3 billion has been spent on exploration in Saskatchewan since 2003. Exploration expenditures in the province in 2018 were $228 million and are es-timated to increase to $280 million in 2019. Saskatch-ewan’s mining industry generated $7 billion in sales in 2018 and more than 30,000 people in the province owe their livelihoods, directly or indirectly, to the industry.

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Many people realize that Nutrien Rocanville and Mosaic Esterhazy are two very large mines and two very stable anchors for the economy in southeast Sas-katchewan and southwest Manitoba.

But a lot of people might not realize just how big the two mines are.

They are not only the two largest potash mines in Saskatchewan.

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With nameplate capaci-ties of 6.6 million tonnes of KCl (Mosaic Esterhazy) and 6.5 million tonnes (Nutrien Rocanville), the two mines are far larger than any other potash mines in operation.

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ROCANVILLE THE LARGEST NUTRIEN MINE

Production at Rocanville doubled with the comple-tion of the $3 billion ex-pansion. The Rocanville mine produced 2.48 mil-lion tonnes of KCl in 2015, 2.72 million tonnes in 2016, and 4.86 million tonnes in 2017.

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Canada’s upstream oil and gas sector is in intensive careCanadian oil and gas

companies face major problems, in great part due to government policy.

Legal restrictions on the expansion of pipeline ca-pacity have restricted ex-ports of oil, shrinking prof-it margins. The subsequent price decline for Western Canada Select oil spurred former Alberta premier Rachel Notley to tempo-rarily reduce the produc-tion of raw crude oil and bitumen starting on Janu-ary 1, 2019.

What’s perhaps less ap-preciated, at least outside oil-producing regions of Canada, is the extent of economic damage to the energy industry due large-ly to government regula-tory and tax policies, as manifested by reduced rates of capital investment in the upstream oil and gas sector (essentially explora-tion and production) and the increasing abandon-ment of oil drilling sites.

By way of illustration, as recently as 2014, oil and gas extraction accounted for around 28 per cent of total industry capital expenditures in Canada compared to around 14 per cent in 2018. This decline is particularly striking given that total business invest-ment in Canada in 2018 was around 10 per cent less than 2014 levels.

The consequences for the Canadian economy, and in particular for the provincial economies of

Alberta and Saskatch-ewan, are also perhaps under-appreciated. The oil and gas sector contributes, directly and indirectly, around eight per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP), almost 30 per cent of Alberta’s GDP and slightly more than 23 per cent of Saskatchewan’s GDP.

Exploration and pro-duction in the oil sands accounts for almost 80 per cent of the oil and gas industry’s total capital ex-penditures.

Obviously, it won’t be easy for Alberta to re-place the investment and income losses, which are due largely to federal government policies that suppress incentives for maintaining—let alone in-creasing—economic activ-ity in the upstream oil and gas sector.

Ottawa’s policies have been particularly damag-ing given that deregula-tion and tax reduction in the United States is help-

ing dramatically improve the investment climate in the U.S. upstream oil and gas sector.

Unsurprisingly, oil and gas companies are mov-ing their exploration and production activities from Canada to the U.S.

For the U.S., that meant capital expenditures in the upstream sector of the in-dustry were around 41 per cent higher in 2018 com-pared to 2016.

In Canada, they were only about 15 per cent higher. Furthermore, drill-ing rigs in Canada com-prised almost 15.6 per cent of total rigs operating in North America in 2018, a drop from around 20 per cent in 2016.

Numerous industry ex-ecutives and investment

rapidly worsening com-petitive position for oil and gas companies doing busi-ness in Canada relative to their counterparts in the U.S. One recent survey found that Alberta’s over-all investment attractive-ness declined by almost 21 per cent between 2014 and

2018.Conversely, major oil ex-

ploration and production locations in the U.S., most notably in Texas and New Mexico, were rated more attractive locations for in-vestment in 2018 than in 2014.

In the absence of sub-stantive changes to gov-

Canada’s upstream oil and

foresee any abatement of the ongoing relocation of investment to the U.S.

It might well be that Canadian politicians and

policy-makers believe this trend to be in the country’s best interest given other national priorities, includ-ing environmental protec-tion.

In this case, politicians have a moral obligation to inform Canadian voters about the major regional, industrial and occupa-tional readjustments that a continuation of current policies will impose on the economy.

Steven Globerman and Joel Emes are senior fellows at the Fraser Institute.

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With pipeline shortages driving down the price of Ca-nadian oil, the losses for the energy sector—and for Cana-da’s economy—are staggering.

cost Canada’s energy sector $20.6 billion—or one per cent of the country’s economy—in foregone revenues last year.

Despite increased oil production in recent years, Can-ada has been unable to build any new major pipelines.

and Energy East projects have been cancelled. And the Trans Mountain expansion, Line 3 replacement and Key-stone XL pipeline remain mired in delay.

Take the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, for example. After years of regulatory delays and political interference, the project’s future remains uncertain. The proposal to expand the existing Trans Mountain pipeline

in 2016. However, the Federal Court of Appeal rescinded that decision last year, ruling that neither the environmen-tal review nor the Indigenous consultation were properly completed.

that deemed the project in the public interest, the B.C. gov-ernment continues to oppose the project and is pursuing legal means to block the expansion.

Such delays and political opposition raises serious con-cerns about whether the pipeline will ever be built.

So what are the consequences of all these delays? How

We have an overdependence on the U.S. market, in-

creased reliance on more costly modes of energy transpor-tation, and rising oil inventories in Western Canada.

Producers are shipping their crude by rail, a higher-cost mode of transportation (and less safe—pipelines are 2.5 times less likely to experience an oil spill than rail trans-port). Higher rail rates are absorbed by Canadian oil pro-

(WCS) and U.S. crude West Texas Intermediate (WTI). It hasn’t always been this way. Between 2009 and 2012,

one of the costs of doing business in Canada.

70 per cent of the U.S. crude price, meaning Canadian heavy oil was sold at only 30 per cent of the value of U.S. oil.

In addition to the negative impacts on oil producers,

royalties (the government’s cut of every barrel produced) and lower corporate income tax revenue for energy-pro-

ducing provinces and the federal government. This is revenue that could have been used for vital ser-

vices such as health care and education and/or reduced taxes.

the previous Alberta gov ernment introduced a temporary production limit on oil producers in an attempt to address

has narrowed. But clearly, building new export pipe lines remains the only long-term solution to ensure Canada’s valuable exports receive prices closer to world market prices.

The real issue is that Canadian heavy oil producers lost a staggering $20.6 billion in forgone revenues last year compared to what other producers of similar products re-ceived.

That’s roughly one per cent of our economy lost because we can’t deliver our product to international markets to secure better prices. This loss of revenue means less in-vestment, less job creation and ultimately less prosperity for Canadians.

Unless Canadians are willing to continue to incur large losses and less investment, the federal government and several key provincial governments must co-operate to get pipelines built.

Elmira Aliakbari is associate director of natural resource studies and Ashley Stedman is a senior policy analyst at the Fraser Institute.


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Mining permit waits hamper Canadian developmentEvery year, the Fraser Institute publishes a survey of se-

nior mining company executives that assesses policy envi-ronments around the world and the mineral potential of jurisdictions. Those two components are used to create an investment attractiveness index.

One thing miners repeatedly tell us is that they’re con-cerned about obtaining exploration permits: how long does it take, how certain is the process, how transparent is the process, etc.

That’s why, for the last several years, the Fraser Institute has included a sub-survey examining permit times in Can-ada, Australia and the United States.

In the 2018 survey, 150 managers and executives (with 65 per cent from exploration companies) answered the permit-time component of the larger mining survey. These responses allowed eight Canadian jurisdictions to be as-sessed: Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Most exploration permits can be obtained within six

Twelve per cent of applicants in B.C., for example, waited 15 to 18 months to receive a permit to explore. In Nunavut, 12.5 per cent of applicants were also kept waiting for 15 to 18 months, as were 9.5 per cent of respondents from Yukon.

The clear winner on swift permitting was Saskatchewan, with 100 per cent of respondents receiving permits in six months or less.

Among the three provinces that attract the majority of Canadian exploration spending on base metals and pre-cious metals—B.C., Ontario and Quebec—the results are mixed.

For example, in Quebec (45 per cent) and Ontario (28 per cent), a higher percentage of respondents indicated they ex-pected it to take two months or less to acquire necessary exploration permits compared to only nine per cent of re-spondents in B.C.

In fact, B.C. underperforms all of its competitors in Cana-da on timeliness, with the lowest percentage of respondents (45 per cent) among the three provinces indicating they ex-pected to spend six months or less acquiring the necessary

permits.The permit time survey also looked at whether things

were taking less time or taking longer. Canadian jurisdic-tions reported lengthening wait times over the last 10 years, with 65 per cent of respondents from B.C., Manitoba, Nun-avut, Ontario and Yukon reporting lengthened timelines. The Northwest Territories, Quebec and Saskatchewan re-ported shortened permit times or that they basically stayed the same over the past decade.

The last component of the permit time survey is the ques-tion of timeline certainty (or uncertainty). Respondents were asked how often their jurisdiction met its own estab-lished timelines/milestones for permit approval decisions.

Half or more of the respondents to this question in B.C., Nunavut and Manitoba reported their permitting authority failed to meet its established timelines about half the time.

Again, Saskatchewan has bragging rights, with all re--

stones were met between 80 and 100 per cent of the time.-

ment. Long and uncertain permitting processes risk gum-ming up the process. As the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (or PDAC) observes, exploration projects are the “headwaters” of the mining industry. Broad exploration is important, since “out of a thousand explora-tion projects, only one might eventually turn into an operat-ing mine.”

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ing future mines, regulators should pay close attention to what miners are telling them.

Kenneth Green is a Fraser Institute analyst.

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Manitoba has two poten-tial areas for oil and gas pro-duction, southwest Mani-toba and the Hudson Bay lowlands.

Oil was discovered in Manitoba and has been pro-duced since 1951.

Manitoba’s current oil production is located in southwest Manitoba along

Williston Basin, a sedimen-tary basin that also occupies portions of southern Sas-

Potential hydrocarbon bearing-formations in southwest Manitoba occur to depths of up to 2 300 me-tres (7,500 feet).

The majority of the ap-proximately 8,500 wells drilled in Manitoba have only been drilled to Trias-sic, Mississippian or to the

-proximately one half of the potential hydrocarbon bear-ing formations.

Production in 2015 was 2,685,255.3 m3 or 16.9 mil-lion Barrels. The month of January 2015 had the high-est production at 255,242.3 m3 (1.6 million Bbls) or 51,813 Bbls per day.

-meters of core from wells drilled in Manitoba avail-able for examination.

All pre-1980 oil produc-tion originated from Mis-sissippian Lodgepole and Mission Canyon formations at depths that range from 600 to 1 050 metres (2,000 to 3,500 feet). These for-mations accounted for ap-proximately 68 per cent of Manitoba’s cumulative oil production.

Oil was discovered in 1980 above the Mississippian in the Triassic Amaranth For-mation. Approximately 21 per cent of Manitoba’s 2015 production originates from the Amaranth Formation in

In 1985, oil was discov--

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produced a total of 89.27 million m3 (561,772,840 Bbls)

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produced 2.03 million bar-rels of oil since June 1955.

there were approximately 3,811 producing oil wells in Manitoba, 1648 of which were put on production since January 1, 2006.

Currently there are 13

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Manitoba’s crude oil pro-duction is equivalent to ap-proximately 43 per cent of

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Approximately 13.4 mil-lion m3 (84.6 million barrels) of salt water were produced in 2015, that’s 5.0 m3 of salt water for every 1 m3 of crude oil produced. Salt water must be separated from the oil and re-injected into sub-surface formations.


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