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COLEVILLE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 • Coleville Fowl Supper at the Coleville Community Hall. Doors open at 5:00 PM. All proceeds to support Coleville Playschool and the new development of Coleville Licensed Daycare. For any questions or if you would like to donate, please contact Teneal at 306-4301188 or Stacey at 306-430-7788.

KINDERSLEY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 • 365 Lloyd Sparky Ament Air Cadet Squadron is hosting an Open House and Information Night 7:00 PM at the Museum. Open to all youth aged 12-18. For more information email: danit.vass@cadets.gc.ca SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 • SJHL Preseason: Kindersley Klippers vs Humboldt Broncos 7:30 PM at the WCEC. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 • Kindersley Klippers Sledge Hockey Club annual board meeting 7:30 PM at JorAnn Safety (101 - 4th St. W.) Everyone welcome.

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• Antique Threshing Club Demo at the Kindersley & District Plains Museum starting at 12:00 Noon. Food on site. 1903 Steam Engine will be featured as well as a 1920 Rumely Oil Pull Tractor.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 • West Central Crisis Centre Annual General Meeting 7:00 PM at Morgotch Law Office.

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• Muhammad Ali’s star on the Holly5. GAMES: What is a perfect score wood Walk of Fame is the only star that is not on the sidewalk, but on the wall of in bowling? the Kodak Theatre, to honor the boxing 6. SCIENCE: What does an auxchamp’s request that he “did not want anometer measure? to be walked on.”

7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a • Pennies are used to adjust the time in female donkey called?

London’s famous Big Ben clock tower.

A single cent can change the pendu8. MOVIES: Which holiday is celelum’s center of mass and alter the time brated at the end of “When Harry Met by 0.4 seconds per day.

Sally”?

• Michael Bay filmed Megan Fox 9. TELEVISION: Which entertainer washing his Ferrari as her audition for has hosted “Saturday Night Live” the “Transformers.” most?

• Halley’s Comet has two correct pronunciations. It can rhyme with “dai10. ANATOMY: What is the anatomly” or “valley” since its discoverer, ical name for the kneecap?

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natural gas usage records, and we canHarpauer thanksaid

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That’s according to Minister of FiAccording to SaskEnergy in a Dec. 31 release, “Exnance and across Deputy Premier treme cold weather Saskatchewan this Donna week reHarpauer, who released rst quarter sulted in record-breaking natural gasfidemand in the province.

On December and 29, natural gas confinancials on Aug.28 31. sumption surpassed previous daily record of 1.57 Most signifithe cantly, the budget forepetajoules (PJ) which was set in February 2021. cast oil prices to average US$79.50 “A new daily record of 1.62 PJ was set on December barrel, and most29ofwith thetotal quarter, 28 per and broken again on for December system delivery of 1.64 PJ. numbers Intermediate for December 30 the price of Delivery West Texas and 31 are not yet finalized, also expected or to has been below that,butinare the US$70s exceed 1.6 PJ.” even US$60s. . .

The natural gas records coincided with record powThe surplus $532.0 miler consumption.

On Dec.is29,down SaskPower set another lioninfrom largely due to highrecord powerbudget, consumption for Saskatchewan.

At 5:27 on Dec. 29, 2021, Saskatchewan homesand and erp.m. non-cash pension expense businesses reached in safepower spending to fi3,868 ght megawatts wildfires (MW) and to use, according to the Crown corporation. The previous ly evacuate those impacted by the record of 3,792 MW was reached four years ago to the fi res.

Lower resource revenue is also day, on Dec. 29, 2017. forecast at Q1 compared Saskatchewan’s power productionto hasbudget. increasingly shifted to natural gas as a fuel source. In At from firstcoal quarter, revenue is forecast December, Boundary Dam Unit 4, a coal-fired to be $19.6 billion, down $123.7genermilating unit, was retired, reducing the Boundary Dam lion, or 0.6 per cent, from budget.

Power Station to 672 megawatts capacity. On theThe natdecrease is largelyhasattributable to a ural gas side, Saskatchewan seen the construction of $528.9 several new naturalreduction gas-fired power plants.

They million in the non-reinclude the baseload North Battleford Station newable resources revenuePower forecast, (289 megawatts), Yellowhead Power Station peaking primarily due to lower potash and oil plant (also at North Battleford, 135 megawatts), the prices, and Power lower-than-budgeted baseload Chinook Station at Swift Currentpot(353 ash andand oilpeaking sales forecasts. megawatts) plant Spy Hill Power Station (89The megawatts).

Another 353 megawatt baseload resource revenue decrease is largely offset by a combined increase of $405.2 million across all other revenue categories, including Taxation revenue due to ongoing strength in consumption and, as a result, Provincial Sales Tax revenue.

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The noted thatexpense increased is demand from AtCrown first quarter, forecast SaskEnergy’s industrial customers, including natural touse befor$19.1 upwas $408.2 million, gas power billion, production, the main driver of or week’s 2.2 record-setting per cent, consumption. from budget. The this SaskEnergy said it measures daily conhigher expense forecast is natural largelygasdue sumption for the 24-hour periodmillion from 9:00increase a.m. to 9:00 to a combined $317.2 a.m. A PJ is a unit of measurement equivalent to one in education, general government and million gigajoules (GJ) of natural gas. An average Sasfinance home charges, primarily attributable katchewan consumes about 100 GJ of natural toeach a year. non-cash increase in pension gas “SaskEnergy’s natural to gas actuarial system design can acexpense, related adjustcommodate capacity to manage increased ments. additional An $89.0 million increase, consumption even on peak days,” SaskEnergy presilargely to fight wildfires and to safely dent and CEO Ken From said in a release. “Throughevacuate those impacted by themaintain fires, out the year, SaskEnergy employees inspect, is enhance also contributing to thesafe higher exand the system to support and reliable natural gasforecast, delivery in at all fi weather conditions. In adpense rst quarter. dition, employees monitor the system 24 hours a day “We will continue to pay down opto ensure sufficient system capacity to meet customer erating debt, as planned. We’re able demand across the province.” toThis doprovince so because higherdependent openingoncash is now largely neighbouring Alberta to fulfill of our balances due to a roughly strongtwo-thirds year end in natural gas needs.

2022-23 have offset the drop in the When natural gas prices took a tumble roughly 14 projected surplus,” said Harpauer. years ago, Saskatchewan’s domestic gas production with debt reduction fell off“Sticking a cliff. Targeted gas our drilling went essentially explan important, because tinct, withisnext to no gas-specific wells beingpaying drilled in this province most past decade.

Our domesdown upforto $1of the billion in operating ticdebt gas production is now largely based on associated this fiscal year, combined with gas production that comes with oil production. As a $1.5 billion in debt retirement last result, Saskatchewan went from being a net gas exfiscal is ofresulting porter for year, the period 1988 to 2009in to aprojected net importer that year. annualized interest savings of $110

million – savings that go directly into supporting priority programs, services and infrastructure for Saskatchewan people,” Harpauer said.

Saskatchewan’s net-debt-to-GDP is projected to be 13.4 per cent at the end of 2023-24 and is currently ranked second-best among the provinces.

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Only 33 drilling rigs are working in province gas or oil.

BY BRIAN ZINCHUK North American Helium had one rig With oil prices the highest they’ve been since November, 2022, drilling activity in at Success and a second at McCord.

Whitecap and one rig south of Success.

Saskatchewan is not exactly flourishing.

According to RiggerTalk.com, which Crescent Point was drilling with one rig publishes data from the Canadian Associ- between Eastend and Frontier.

There were just seven rigs working in ation of Energy Contractors, there were 33 rigs working in Saskatchewan on Tuesday, west central Saskatchewan, an unusually low number given the price of oil, the time Sept. 5.

In southeast Saskatchewan, there of year and the fact there’s been no rain were 16 rigs working, if you include one (rain will shutdown drilling in that region in rig drilling for Western Potash Corp. near a heartbeat.)

Prospera Energy Inc. had one rig withLajord.

Harvard Resources Inc. had one rig in spitting distance of the Alberta bornorthwest of Colgate. Crescent Point En- der south of Alsask. Whitecap had a rig ergy Corp. had one rig northeast of Midale working southwest of Kindersley and anand another just northwest of Handsworth other north of Coleville. Ish Energy Ltd. and a third several kilometres northeast of was drilling west of Coleville with one rig.

Teine Energy also had a rig working east Handsworth.

East of Handsworth, Saturn Oil & Gas of Coleville.

Strathcona Resources had a rig close had one rig drilling.

Vermillion Energy Inc. had one rig to the Alberta border south of Macklin, working near Viewfield. Whitecap Re- while Longshore Resources had one north sources operated one rig east of Benson of Macklin.

Drilling activity in northwest Saskatchand another southeast of Lampman. Aldon Oils had one rig northwest of Lamp- ewan has picked up marginally, with six man, while Surge Energy had a rig south rigs working. Alsace Energy had a rig SEPTIC SERVICES SK east of Lone Rock. Northeast of of Lampman. Midale Petroleums hadKindersley, one working Lloydminster, Rife Resources had one rig rig north of Frobisher.

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According to private-sector forecastthe Torquay area.

Four rigs were working in southwest ers, Saskatchewan’s real GDP is now exSaskatchewan, of which two were fo- pected to grow by 1.8 per cent in 2023, cused on helium, as opposed to natural second highest among the provinces, and by 1.2 per cent in 2024, third highest

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