Peiris: Sask government oblivious to changes around them thestarphoenix.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestarphoenix.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Against a backdrop of major automakers building factories in Ontario to produce electric vehicles, and the growing public eagerness to move away from fossil fuels, Saskatchewan is making slow progress in tackling a $4-billion, long-term cleanup bill that is the legacy of decades of oil and gas production.
While the Ministry of Energy and Resources says that its approach of collaborating with industry to safely decommission non-producing wells and restore the land to its former state is producing better results than the colossal cleanup mess facing Albertans, Saskatchewan’s weak regulatory regime still leaves much to be desired.
Peiris: Oil well cleanup far too slow in Saskatchewan thestarphoenix.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestarphoenix.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Thank you City of Saskatoon crews
My wife and I have earned the friendly designation as an elderly couple. She has also earned the designation as survivor more than three years of problems with illness, two hip replacements and a fractured leg. And now, with illness shunted to the background we are here to celebrate being here. That means physical exercise. We have been blessed with a winter season that has permitted us to be out walking, not rapidly, but outside in fresh winter air, walking.
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It’s astounding that Saskatchewan still doesn’t have a comprehensive policy to manage and preserve its wetlands, which have been steadily drained since the early 1900s to accommodate agriculture. More than 50 per cent of these invaluable sites have now disappeared while the rest are under threat.
With half of Canada’s arable land, Saskatchewan should be the leader in acting to preserve wetlands that provide a wide array of environmental services such as serving as wildlife habitats and carbon sinks, producing pollinators, recharging aquifers, purifying water, retaining nutrients, mitigating flooding, contributing to soil health, and providing water security in a drought-prone province.