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BHPâs big potash neighbour just got friendlier
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When the two Canadians at the top of BHP sit down in a couple of months time to decide whether to spend $US5.7 billion ($7.4 billion) on a new Canadian potash mine, they will do so knowing the loudest critic of their plans will likely be silent.
Charles âChuckâ Magro has been a constant irritation for BHP in recent years as his regular warnings that BHPâs Jansen mine in Canada would flood the market with too much potash have frustrated attempts to convince BHP investors of the merit in taking a long-term punt on the fertiliser commodity.
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When we think about turning points in Saskatchewan political history, we tend to think about the big days election days, budgets, bills or days with huge policy pronouncements.
We think about Oct. 13, 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government introduced the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Bill ushering in nation-defining medicare.
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We think about Jan. 15, 1976 when the NDP government introduced An Act Respecting the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan that ushered in the potash “nationalization” debate that many view as the beginning of the end of the Allan Blakeney era. We think of April 20, 1989 when then Roy Romanow-led NDP opposition began ringing the bells over a bill to privatize SaskEnergy that’s seen as the end of Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservative ad