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For most of this offseason, after a brief discussion at DEPARTMENT the Grey Cup, it looked like FIRE maybe, just maybe, we’d get through it without the prospect of the CFL adding an addiBack row (Left to Right) tional down, joining the world of American footballGarrett with four downs.

Flueny, Jayden Olfert Instead, the topic is once again on the CFL discussion frontSiwak burner following a report Matthew (Lieutenant) Meissner, Brenden Obrigewitch from Sportsnet that Genius Sports, the league’sSteven new data partner, is pushing the league Devon Townsend to make the switch. If the league’s board of governors go for it, and if it’s truly being conFront Row (Left to Right) sidered by those that ultimately make the decisions, we will see what happens.

Nick Anderson Brad Galbraith (Captain) Matthew Rumohr (Chief Should the league consider it? Maybe, but they better be darn sure that it’s) going to bring the league into a new era of prosperity. Personally, without some other changes, Missing: Gottfried, Brian that would mean the end of Canadian football as Randy we know it, adding a Gottfried down isn’t the Matthew Thrun, Garret Walford magic bullet some might think it is.

Christopher Brost, Kevin Sloboda First off, I don’t believe anyone who says they’d start watching CFLFranko if it was four Austin Gleave,the Adam Neil Kennedy, Reiber downs. I’ve heard the argument before, including from some friendsKoby of mine.

UltimateBazylinski , Kirk Meyer ly, the goal posts would be moved and they’d findKeagan another excuse for not watching, Shane Bardick leaving the league with anangry group of former fans and no new fans.

Also, if you think old-school NFL footballDODSLAND was three yards andVOLUNTEER a cloud of dust, fourdown football on a 65 yard wide field, with the defence a yard off the ball? Oh boy. But, FIRE DEPARTMENT From left to right really know it isn’t really worth getting too worked up about just yet because we don’t Fire Chief Vic Sittler, where it’s going.

Shane Kruesel, OYEN ECHO That doesn’t mean the CFL should rest on their laurels.

MostJohnson, games in 2021 were Jarret Grant Sittler, to some downright boring and that’s a problem for the league.Deputy ThingsChief should improve Deputy Chief Grant Christison, degree in 2022 thanks to a regular offseason with full training camps, a longer pre-seaMichael Bowden. son and the like.

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Ryan around, Neumeier, So, what should the league do? There are plentyPatrick of ideasMcGrath, being floated but the Trent Nienaber, Travis Kennon 4th down keeps coming up again and again.

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And none of that factors in what’s been happening in potash, which is seeing its best prices in years. Russia, and its ally Belarus, are the third and second largest potash producers in the world after Canada, and economic sanctions, along with the war, is threatening that supply. In 2022-23, potash is budgeted to bring in $1.451 billion, up over a billion dollars compared to what was budgeted a year ago for 2021-22. The forecasted revenue from potash for the closing fiscal year is now expected to be $1.031 billion, an increase of $599 million over what was budgeted.

Finance minister speaks In an embargoed briefing on budget morning, Pipeline Online asked Harpauer about that volatility and the government’s projects on oil price. She replied, “We use industry to give us their projections on what they think it will be, on average, throughout the entire year.

Right now, a moment in time, and obviously, unusual circumstances oil is as high as it is.

But there are some expectations it’s going to be higher than it was last year, and we have built that with the average forecasters $75.75. Only time will tell. It’s a volatile. The challenge with resource revenue is it’s volatile.”

Asked by reporters about the increased resource revenues and how they factored into consideration for this budget, Harpauer said, “It was actually a positive experience because revenues are strengthening that we didn’t anticipate, obviously, a year ago, when we were in the heat of the pandemic and the economy has taken a huge sigh. But it was very much around, ‘Let’s go into the trap that we’ve been in the past, which is to become totally reliant on resource revenues.’

“Right now, those resource revenues are extremely high. We don’t know how long that will last. There are a number of factors driving these prices, and they’re not going to hold forever. So, the discussion very much was around we need to increase, we need to increase our investment in a number of areas. But let’s be mindful that we’re doing it with the economic growth in mind that is stable and ongoing year over year.”

She added, “I do think that people do want

to see a stable base to their government budgets going forward and that we’re not knee jerk reacting to the price of oil each and every year.”

Regarding volatility in commodity prices and possible windfalls, she said this past fiscal year Saskatchewan “did experience a bit of a windfall. We used it to write down the operating debt by $450 million in this particular fiscal year.”

Harpauer continued, “It’s very hard to project what will happen in the next fiscal year. We’re not even in this budget yet. And so, you’re projecting what the average will be over the year. Should the product, in particular, potash and oil prices, be much stronger than we’re projecting? That will be future discussions as what would be a wise decision on how that money will be spent. What I really don’t think we’re going to do is fall in the trap of putting it into ongoing year-over-year operating costs, because we fell in that trap before, and it does not bode well for the province.”

Asked about the Ukraine War, as well as ongoing COVID-19, she said there was an additional $95 million for pandemic pressures for health care, but the real risk is inflation.

“The risk definitely in the budget and for all of us going forward is going to be how high will inflation go due to circumstances both with the pressures and ending through the pandemic, as well as the global issues. There’s no doubt that the political climate, due to what’s happening in Ukraine, is a risk. Disruptions to the supply chain which was already there is being even more accelerated due to the war.”

The budget forecasts deficits for the next several years, but Harpauer said, “I’m optimistic that we can maybe not have the debt deficit as much as projected, but we’ll see how that goes.”

She pointed to significant unprecedented private sector investment, particular in canola crushing and forestry. Indeed, there is so much planned in Saskatchewan for this year, the government purposely did not announce large capital projects in this budget, instead choosing to finish off projects in the works.

Harpauer expressed concern about there being enough labour to go around if the province added to the capital mix at this time.

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BY BRIAN ZINCHUK hit in late 2014, the deficit hole in the Sasbrian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca katchewan was typically almost exactly Not only budget was Saskatchewan setting electrical conthe equal to the decline from previous oil revsumption records during the cold snap of last week of December, we also sethole two is consecutive enues.

And now that closing. natural gas consumption records, too.

That’s apparent in the 2022-23 budget taAccording to SaskEnergy in a Dec. 31 release, “Exbled Finance Donna Harpauer tremeby cold weatherMinister across Saskatchewan this weekon re-

sulted in record-breaking natural gas demand in the province. On December 28 and 29, natural gas consumption surpassed the previous daily record of 1.57 petajoules (PJ) which was set in February 2021.

“A new daily record of 1.62 PJ was set on December 28 and broken again on December 29 with total system delivery of 1.64 PJ. Delivery numbers for December 30 and 31 are not yet finalized, but are also expected to exceed 1.6 PJ.” The natural gas records coincided with record power consumption. On Dec. 29, SaskPower set another record in power consumption for Saskatchewan. At 5:27 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2021, Saskatchewan homes and businesses reached 3,868 megawatts (MW) in power use, according to the Crown corporation. The previous record of 3,792 MW was reached four years ago to the day, on Dec. 29, 2017.

Saskatchewan’s power production has increasingly shifted from coal to natural gas as a fuel source. In December, Boundary Dam Unit 4, a coal-fired generating unit, was retired, reducing the Boundary Dam Power Station to 672 megawatts capacity. On the natural gas side, Saskatchewan has seen the construction of several new natural gas-fired power plants. They include the baseload North Battleford Power Station (289 megawatts), Yellowhead Power Station peaking plant (also at North Battleford, 135 megawatts), the baseload Chinook Power Station at Swift Current (353 megawatts) and peaking plant Spy Hill Power Station (89 megawatts). Another 353 megawatt baseload

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plant, veryand similar to Chinook, is under construction Oil potash are back, and the two at Moose Jaw. non-renewable resources are having a big imAll of this added natural gas-fired power generapacthas, notin only on thehigher upcoming but tion turn, driven usage ofbudget, natural gas the closing out fiscal year.consumption.

Oil and natural gas during times of high electrical The Crown noted to that demandhigher from revenue is forecast beincreased $383.7 million SaskEnergy’s industrial customers, including natural than budgeted last year.

CONTINUED gas use for power production, was the main driver of this week’s record-setting consumption.

SaskEnergy said it measures daily natural gas consumption for the 24-hour period from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. A PJ is a unit of measurement equivalent to one million gigajoules (GJ) of natural gas. An average Saskatchewan home consumes about 100 GJ of natural gas each year.

“SaskEnergy’s natural gas system design can accommodate additional capacity to manage increased consumption even on peak days,” SaskEnergy president and CEO Ken From said in a release. “Throughout the year, SaskEnergy employees inspect, maintain and enhance the system to support safe and reliable natural gas delivery in all weather conditions. In addition, employees monitor the system 24 hours a day to ensure sufficient system capacity to meet customer demand across the province.”

This province is now largely dependent on neighbouring Alberta to fulfill roughly two-thirds of our natural gas needs.

When natural gas prices took a tumble roughly 14 years ago, Saskatchewan’s domestic gas production fell off a cliff. Targeted gas drilling went essentially extinct, with next to no gas-specific wells being drilled in this province for most of the past decade. Our domestic gas production is now largely based on associated gas production that comes with oil production. As a result, Saskatchewan went from being a net gas exporter for the period of 1988 to 2009 to a net importer that year.

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First off: The Ministry of Finance is using conservative estimates for its forecasts in oil prices and potash.

For the West Texas Intermediate benchmark, the forecast is US$75.75 per barrel WTI. That’s just 75 cents more than the forecast of what will have been received for the current fiscal year ending March 31.

That number is also considerably larger than what was budgeted last year, when the province expected oil prices to average US$42.43 per barrel.

As Saskatchewan’s natural gas production has fallen considerably in recent years, the province no longer includes the natural gas price estimate in media briefing documents.

You have to dig into the budget to find the 2022 forecast price of C$3.9 per gigajoule, and $3.4 per gigajoule for 2023.

The light to heavy oil differential, the bane of provincial finances for several years, has also dramatically reduced. At times during the seven-year downturn the differential was over US$40 per barrel. Next year’s budget is putting it at 14.5 per cent of WTI. That’s down from 16.9 per cent forecast in last year’s budget, but a little worse than the 13.7 per cent forecast to have been the actual number for the current fiscal year about to end.

“Oil and natural gas royalties are budgeted at $867.5 million in 2022-23, a decrease of $21.3 million from the 2021-22 forecast. The decrease is primarily due to a wider lightheavy oil price differential, partially offset by higher West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices and a slight increase in oil production,” the budget document stated.

Oil production is anticipated to increase very slightly. Last year’s budget pegged oil production at 152.5 million barrels for the year (417,808 barrels per day), but the budget forecast is showing that number to be 163.5 million barrels actualized (447,945 bpd). The new budget is expecting nearly identical production to 2021-22, with 163.7 million barrels forecast (448,493 bpd).

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And explanation is found in the budget document, stating, “While the current WTI forecast may appear low compared to recent market prices, and WTI has been increasing throughout the 2021-22 fiscal year (from daily prices below US$60 per barrel in April, to highs of over US$95 in February), the current forecast assumes that these price spikes are temporary and reflect brief supply and de• Fluid Hauling mand imbalances. It is anticipated that if WTI • Pile Driving oil prices remain elevated for an extended pe• Mobile Boilers riod, it will bring U.S. crude production back • Mobile Steam ~ Commercial online and OPEC will look to retain marketFarm ~ Oilfield ~ Industrial ~ Residential & Pressure Wash • Electric Motor Sales • Locating & Fault Finding share and make production adjustments to • Snow RemovalProof • Trenchers c/w Hoes • Bucket Truck • Explosion prevent this from happening. The current ma• Rig Supplies • Huge Electrical Inventory • Vegetation Control jor risk to world oil markets is the continued Office/Sales/Dispatch at 110 9th Ave. E. Kindersley One block south of Tisdales/ESSO/Ford uncertainty surrounding the ongoing impacts PERFORMANCE DRIVEN of COVID-19 and the geopolitical tensions in WITH SAFETY IN MIND eastern Europe.”

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* On April 6, 1776, the Continental Congress takes the first step toward American independence by announcing its decision to open all American ports to international trade with any part of the world that is not under British rule. It was the first act of independence by the Continental Congress.

er who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, retires as prime minister of Great Britain. In the first year of his administration, Britain had stood alone against Nazi Germany.

* On April 7, 1961, President John F. Kennedy sends a letter to Congress * On April 9, 1859, a 23-year-old Mis- recommending that the U.S. particisouri youth named Samuel Langhorne pate in an international campaign to Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s preserve ancient temples and historlicense. Clemens would later write ic monuments in Egypt’s Nile Valley under the pseudonym Mark Twain, a threatened by construction of the Asboatman’s call noting that the river was wan High Dam. only 2 fathoms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation. * On April 4, 1973, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center officially open * On April 10, 1879, Schandor Herz in New York City. The buildings re-- the future John Hertz, the man be- placed the Empire State Building as the hind what will one day be the world’s world’s tallest building, though they largest car-rental company -- is born would only hold that title for a year. in present-day Slovakia. In 1923, Hertz bought a fleet of used Ford Model Ts * On April 8, 1989, California Angels and named the business Hertz Drive- rookie pitcher Jim Abbott, who was Ur-Self Corporation. born without a right hand, makes his Major League Baseball debut in a 7-0 * On April 5, 1955, Sir Winston Leon- loss to the Seattle Mariners. ard Spencer Churchill, the British lead-

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Here are some ideas to get the wacky side of your brain stimulated for April 1st: — Come to the breakfast table wearing clothes inside out and backward.

— Say common phrases backward, such as "Fools April Happy."

— Make school sandwiches inside out, with bread on the inside and cold cuts and mustard on the outside.

— Write a lunchbox note with letters reversed in each word.

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When: Every week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

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