EVEN AFTER GETTING CAUGHT WASTING TENS OF BILLIONS WITH NO OVERSIGHT, SCOTT MOE PLOWS AHEAD WITH COAL CATSTROPHE

Sask. Party Awards Contracts To Two Out-Of-Province Companies Even In Face Of Massive Costs For Consumers, Widespread Pushback
REGINA – Despite an avalanche of public outrage against Scott Moe and Jeremy Harrison's coal catastrophe, the Sask. Party government is pressing ahead. While every independent report, and their own appointed Rate Review Panel, have made clear that their coal plan is the most expensive and highest risk option, Scott Moe and Jeremy Harrison are ploughing ahead.

New documents reveal that SaskPower has awarded contracts to two separate companies to begin work on their coal plan, ignoring the significant concerns and red flags highlighted by the Rate Review Panel only days earlier.

"This lack of respect for rate payers and basic commonsense is depressingly familiar," said Aleana Young, Shadow Minister for Jobs, Economy & SaskPower. "It's almost every week that a new independent voice speaks out against them.

Families, farms, industry and frankly, everyone else, do not want this government to spend $26B, or more, on what is the highest cost and highest risk plan.

"Farmers, Chambers of Commerce, the largest industries in the province - they have all spoken out against this historic waste of taxpayer money. Yet Scott Moe and his reckless Minister Jeremy Harrison are plowing ahead. They clearly don’t believe they’re accountable to Saskatchewan people.”

The Rate Review Panel's recent recommendation for SaskPower's 2027 rate application raised numerous flags on SaskPower's current situation, including the deep financial trouble that the Crown is heading towards and the lack of adequate information provided both to the panel and the public.

The report noted that: "The costs of the coal repowering program remain uncertain, and the future capital expenditures associated with the program will affect SaskPower's future capital plans and the need for future rate increases."

The Panel further warned the rate increase could rise to upwards of 5.4 to 6.4 per cent, well above the 3.9 per cent initially asked for. The Panel noted that they could not fully assess the financial impact without updated information from SaskPower, raising further questions about the transparency and cost of the government's coal plan.

"Scott Moe and Jeremy Harrison don't know how much this will cost, they won't tell us how high rates are going to go, and they won't allow SaskPower to share basic information with the people being asked to pay their bills. The Crown never used to operate like this. It used to make money and provide reliable and affordable power.

"Now, the economic mavericks in the Premier's office are running historic deficits, raising rates, and still losing money in a monopoly. And now they're ploughing ahead, awarding contracts behind closed doors.

“It’s time to kick Scott Moe and the Sask. Party out of office. They are going to drown us in generational debt and kill our economy.

“It’s time for change.”

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