SCOTT MOE’S COAL CATASTROPHE COVER UP INCLUDES THOUSANDS OF PAGES, THREE REPORTS THAT REVEAL TRUE COST

Carla Beck’s Team Calls For Rate Hike, Stoppage Of Disastrous Plan That Will Cost $26 Billion

REGINA – Carla Beck’s team is calling on Scott Moe to take the black ink of thousands of pages of documents detailing his $26-billion coal catastrophe and to make public three reports referenced in SaskPower’s own documents that reviewed the Sask. Party’s extreme power plan.

“If there really, truly was nothing to hide, Scott Moe would unseal all of these documents,” said Aleana Young, Shadow Minister for Jobs, Economy & SaskPower. “The games these guys have played from the start has only fuelled frustration and undermined trust, from industry players looking to invest and from people worried about the state of finances, now and for generations to come.”

SaskPower’s own submissions to the Rate Review Panel reference three reports — The Hatch Report as well as reports from Klohn Crippen Berger and Rockford Engineering — it had commissioned. To date, those reports have not been made public and freedom of information attempts by Beck’s team to gain more information about the power plan have returned 2,000 pages that are almost entirely redacted. Purportedly, none of the three reports peg the costs of the SaskParty plan at anything close to $2.6B. Recent, anonymous submissions to the Rate Review Panel, suggest these independent engineering reports identified capital costs in excess of $11B, consisted with the leaked SaskPower board documents.

In the face of the ongoing efforts of the Sask. Party to stymie any transparency, Young wrote to all three firms to request the reports be provided to the public, in full. To date there has been no response or release of these reports.

Briefing notes leaked to Carla Beck’s team have made it clear the Crown’s officials believe the power plan is “extreme,” will jack rates by 95 per cent by 2040 and force the cancellation of critical renewables projects.

“The reality is Scott Moe doesn’t want us to see the details of his plan but they will confirm, once and for all, that Saskatchewan people are going to pay dearly for his failures for generations to come,” Young said.

Last week, Beck’s team filed a submission with the Rate Review Panel of documents it has been leaked to date concerning power rates in Saskatchewan and argued for the consultation, which concluded its public component Friday, be restarted as the Sask. Party withheld critical information, and torqued the rest.

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