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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Clean Fuel Standard a second carbon tax:
Minister of Energy and Resources
Veteran receives 55-year Legion pin
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Members of the Weyburn branch of the Royal Canadian Legion presented Red Hearn with a 55-year long-service pin on Sept. 22 at the Hill Top Manor. Present for the occasion are, from left, Dale Huff, Brian Glass, Hearn’s daughter Teresa Lafoy, Fran Oudot and Owen White. Hearn is one of the last surviving veterans of the Second World War in Weyburn. He received a pin in March for the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and was mentioned in the Royal Canadian Legion’s memorial book of war veterans.
Small City Blues releasing a new single
Local recording artists Small City Blues released a new single entitled, “Something Missing”, digitally on Sept. 22. It is available on streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, YouTube, etc. “Something Missing” is also available for streaming at www.smallcityblues.com. The single was written, performed, and recorded in Canada by Canadians. All tracking for the single was performed at Blue Door Recording Studio in Regina. “Something Missing” was produced, mixed, and mas-
tered by Justin Bender from Divergent sounds. Single artwork was completed by Chris Borshowa at Phantasma Photography of Weyburn. “Something Missing” is written for anyone that has ever craved a change in their lives. This song is about craving change but feeling stuck. “We believe it is a feeling all too common, especially during a pandemic. With these uncertain times we felt it we the best moment to release a song to help get us through,” said the band in a release.
Small City Blues is a fivepiece rock band, formed in the winter of 2013, currently operating out of Regina. SCB plays a “high-energy brand of hard rock music, with epic guitar solos and an in-yourface rhythm section.” (Adam Hawboldt, The Verb). SCB consists of Adam Hoffart on vocals, Austin Kot on guitar, Dalton Lemon on guitar, Luke Brunskill on drums, and Evan Mass on bass. Their musical influences include Rival Sons, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, Metallica, etc.
Small City Blues has performed at numerous venues including The Gateway festival, Noise Fest, The Exchange and several bars in southern Saskatchewan. SCB has also opened for touring bands such as “The Blue Stones”, “Whale and the Wolf”, “Sandman”, “The Faceplants”, and “The Hazytones”. SCB has also qualified for Regina’s rock station 104.9 The Wolf’s Queen City Rocks competition three times, winning the title of “Queen City Rocks Winners of 2018”.
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would result in significant foreign imports of renewable fuel products from the United States, in particular, and a disproportionate reliance on nonCanadian workers. “As a result, I am asking that further policy advancement of the CFS regulations be placed on formal pause,” she wrote. Eyre spoke about the matter by phone on Sept. 18 from Saskatoon. She said, “This is going to be an economic crippler. And it is a second carbon tax, it will be applied on top of the carbon tax on the same emissions. And there’s a massive price tag to this thing. It’s estimated it’ll cost Canadians about $15 to 20 billion a year in higher household gas bills, higher prices at the pump, and about 15 per cent higher fuel costs for industry, which of course includes the energy and resources sector.” She noted the name, “clean fuel standard,” is part of the battle, “because who could be against ‘clean fuel?’” “It has a nice sounding name, but it has a huge economic crippling impact if this goes through,” Eyre said. She noted the federal government is looking for the “breaking point, in other words, a way to force people off fossil fuels, so to break their dependence.” Eyre said that it would be possible to buy credits, but at the high price of $350 per tonne, it’s really about forcing people off fuel. Of particular concern are how the Clean Fuel Standard would hurt the oil and gas as well as the mining industries, she noted in her letter. For the oil and gas sector, it would impact the usage of natural gas to create steam for thermal projects used in heavy oil and the oilsands, in addition to the fuel used in drilling, which “is almost at a standstill.” She pointed out the renewable fuel sector is “nowhere even close” to being able to create enough fuel to replace fossil fuels. “So we would end up importing massively from the U.S., in particular, if this goes through. We would be helping U.S. workers and we’d be hurting our own, just a terrible thing across the board,” she said.
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By Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter In its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes per year, the federal government is working developing a new “Clean Fuel Standard,” and that is ringing alarm bells for the Saskatchewan government, as expressed by Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre. The term “clean fuel” is not about reducing particulates or emissions of nitrous oxides, forms of air pollution. Rather, it’s all about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, which the federal Liberal government has repeatedly referred to as “pollution.” The Clean Fuel Standard includes “carbon intensity reduction requirements for liquid fuels” which would start in 2022, as well as similar reductions for solid and gaseous fuels in 2023. The plan will “will require those who produce and import liquid fossil fuels in Canada to reduce the carbon intensity of the liquid fossil fuels they produce and import annually.” Fossil fuels like gasoline, diesel, kerosene, light and heavy fuel oils are included, but “non-fossil fuels will not have a carbon intensity reduction requirement,” according to the Clean Fuel Standard: Proposed Regulatory Approach on the federal Environment and Climate Change website. “Lowcarbon fuels” may include, but are not limited to ethanol, renewable diesel, biodiesel, hydro-treated vegetable oil, low-carbon-intensity jet fuel, synthetic fuels and renewable methanol. Eyre wrote to Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan on Sept. 9, saying the clean fuel standard, in its current form, “would amount to a second Carbon Tax that would cripple the economic growth and future competitiveness of vital Canadian sectors at the worst possible time. As currently envisioned, its implementation would also outpace the Canadian renewable fuel sector’s ability to establish necessary infrastructure, which
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