Move on with coal
PeterPrebble wrote Renewable electricity option best for Sask. (SP, Nov.,26). After three increases in electric utility rates to pay for formerpremier Lorne Calvert's $200 million wind farm that produces 20 percent of the time, I, like many seniors, become nervous at thesuggestion of yet more renewables, given the source.
Withreference to biomass, in the 1990s, a major upgrade project atWeyerhaeuser to meet new emissions standards included plans for a largesteam turbine to complement the new recovery boiler. This would enablethe plant to burn a 20-year accumulation of slash and bark and sell theexcess power back to SaskPower.
The NDP government at the timedirected SaskPower to refuse flat-out to be part of a plan to rid theenvironment of a quarter-section pile of biomass that was as high as agrain elevator, so the idea was scrapped.
With the anthropogenicglobal warming scam now being revealed, and the uncertainty of nuclearcosts, this is a good time for SaskPower to dust off the plans to add aunit to the Shand station and at Poplar River too. Get constructiongoing to increase our base power capacity using the cheap coal resourcewe have been blessed with.
Victor H. Pankoski
Saskatoon