HARRISON SHOULD BE STRAIGHT WITH CONSTITUENTS ABOUT CONSEQUENCES OF CATASTROPHIC COAL PLAN

Last Week, Leaked Documents Exposed True Cost Of $26 Billion For Scott Moe’s Plan
MEADOW LAKE — Carla Beck’s team is calling out SaskPower Minister Jeremy Harrison for keeping his constituents in the dark about the true cost and consequences of his costly $26-billion coal plan.

Darcy Warrington, Shadow Minister for Highways & Infrastructure, said Saskatchewan people deserve transparency after leaked SaskPower documents revealed the true projected cost of refurbishing coal plants — a figure 10 times higher than what the government has publicly claimed.

“This Minister has been hiding the truth from Saskatchewan people and his own constituents all along,” said Warrington, standing outside Harrison’s constituency office on Monday.

“Families in Meadow Lake are already struggling with rising costs, and now Scott Moe and Jeremy Harrison want to bury them under $26 billion in debt or rate hikes — or both.”

Leaked SaskPower documents, tabled in the Legislature by Beck during budget estimates, show the government’s coal plan includes:

$11.4 billion in capital costs
$13 billion in fuel costs
$1.4 billion to rebuild outdated transmission infrastructure

The total cost is staggering when compared to Saskatchewan’s annual provincial budget of $22.2 billion and the province’s total accumulated debt of roughly $44 billion since 1905.

Following the revelations, the Saskatchewan NDP introduced a motion calling on the government to publicly release all SaskPower costing documents related to the coal plan. Scott Moe, Jeremy Harrison and Sask. Party MLAs voted against the motion.

“If this plan is so great, why are we only learning about it through leaked documents?” Warrington said. “Meadow Lake deserves an MLA that is honest, transparent and focused on the future — not one hiding billions in debt and new rate hikes from the public.

“It’s time for a change.”

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