‘Flawed and inflated’: Electrical workers union refutes NDP coal plant cost claims

‘Flawed and inflated’: Electrical workers union refutes NDP coal plant cost claims

A local electrical workers union says the Saskatchewan NDP is misrepresenting the true cost of refurbishing coal-fired power plants.

Furore erupts at Leg over costs of extending coal plants

REGINA — As the final week of the current Legislature session gets underway, the focus of the parties has shifted to the cost of extending coal-fired generation in the province. In particular, the Opposition NDP has gone on the offensive against the government’s plans to extend coal to 2050, claiming it would cost $26 billion — not $2.6 billion as the government had claimed. On May 6, in a news release, the NDP pointed to a leaked slide from an …

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers respond to NDP coal position: 'A deliberate misrepresentation of costs'

On the left: coal crushers at Boundary Dam. Photo by Brian Zinchuk   Editor’s note: On May 7 both the United Mine Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sent letters of support for the Saskatchewan Party Government’s plan to rebuild the coal fleet and dismay at the New Democratic Party’s more assertive stance in recent days to do away with coal-fired power generation. Here’s the letter sent to Minister of Crown In…