By Ryan Young
Apr 13, 2021 10:11 PM
Federated Co-op has acquired a Calgary based energy company that had a proposal to build a mega renewable diesel plant in Regina.
True North Renewable Fuels developed plans for a 20-thousand barrel a day facility that could use up to 1-million tonnes of canola oil per year.
Federated Co-op’s vice-president of strategy, Pam Skotnitsky says there is a real opportunity to take it from ”concept stage” to actual execution.
A renewable diesel plant is at least four years away, and is only in the early pre-engineering and design stage.
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It showed Saskatchewan’s unemployment rate was 7.3 per cent in February 2021, up 0.1 per cent from the previous month. Employment in Saskatchewan was 550,000 jobs, a 0.4 per cent improvement from the previous month. But compared to the same month last year, population grew 1,000, the labour force declined 18,300, and employment declining 23,000. Young, who is a small business owner herself, said, “We all know there are so many people struggling to get by right now and while vaccines are certainly a light at the end of the tunnel, people don t know if their job will be there to come back to. And what we re calling for today is we need a plan that helps small businesses rehire those that they ve had to lay off. And we need to support women getting back into the workplace. We know this pandemic has disproportionately impacted women.
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By Josh Sigurdson
Mar 11, 2021 1:42 AM
The City of Regina will be investing into the construction of a biofuel processing plant near the city.
True North Renewable Fuels Ltd. (TNRF) asked City Council on Wednesday to approve a $1 million dollar grant, citing it was essential to the construction of the plant.
Mayor Sandra Masters says the facility’s potential is exciting.
“It would be enormous to the city, if it were between $800 million and $1.5 billion in investment,” said Masters. “I think doing the math on that, it’s a couple thousand construction jobs over the course of the next several years, and then an ongoing, depending on the spinoff, there’s anywhere between 150-350 permanent jobs.”