Huskies basketball coach breaks Canada West wins record
Feb 03, 2025
Lisa Thomaidis has led the team to two national championships and nine Canada West titles.
SaskPower cut the ribbon on its new natural gas-fired power plant in Swift Current on Friday morning, a facility the Crown corporation hopes will provide reliable power while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The 353-megawatt Chinook Power Station is now feeding the grid with enough power for 350,000 homes.
“The facility will provide highly efficient baseload power, which will support intermittent renewable energy and help SaskPower meet its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030,” read a statement from Dustin Duncan, the minister responsible for SaskPower.
SaskPower says natural gas is cost-effective and emits less than coal.
With a projected price tag of $605 million, the Crown corporation says the project came in $75 million under budget.
SaskPower says more than 500 jobs were created during construction.
Twenty-five permanent workers will run the facility.
“Building this facility required more than two million labour hours, and thanks to the careful work of everyone involved, only one time-lost injury occurred,” SaskPower president and CEO Mike Marsh said in a statement.
More to come.