Power off most of Northeast Sask at -50 windchill , carbon tax ?????

[chuckChuck]

We have had lots of smaller outages and when they happen at -30 C they are a real pain so I can understand your frustration.

Saskatchewan and Moe do have a carbon tax on large emitters.

So is Moe to blame for the infrastructure problems? Nope. And they have nothing to do with wind and solar facilities that have to have enough backup supply because they are intermittent.

But with the massive miles of aging power lines and equipment that we have, its not a matter of if the power is going out it is when.

So you better have a backup plan for your house and shop because coal plants, gas plants, transformers switches and whole systems sometimes fail.

[SASKFARMER]

A big generator going to be added to the farm in the Summer of 2021. Yes, it will keep the two houses and shop going. Not going to seed clean in a power outage as who will bring the product. It's a matter of time.

DM, I thought you were a bit brighter than what you're showing today.

Trudeau and his ****ing carbon tax that does nothing in a country that is in the artic needs a ****ing bitch slap.

[fjlip]

Without power, will gas always come into the house? Really need that answered too. Got a standby lockout switch ($750 to SkPower) plus Electrician, in December. Small 7500 watt Gen keeps furnace going, if gas keeps flowing.
Absolutely we are VUNERABLE! So tax us on essential to life HEAT, you SOB, Imbecile, Leftard Liberal bastards. Also SHAME and GUILT on those who support, or excuse these DEVILS and their reckless thoughtless laws/actions.
You sick F*CKS! Would it hurt criticize a stupid disgusting bunch just once? One track minds...

[foragefarmer]

Sounds the shits Caseih, wouldn't want to be in yours shoes. We were just discussing how Sask should be buying more Hydro from Manitoba on a thread last week.

I think you'd better give a call to local MLA ,MP, and Moe advising them to give Pallister a call and get those lines built.

Best of luck!

[Oliver88]

It would be nice to see all the lunatic leftists hypocrites have their power and natural gas utilities turned off to gain some appreciation. The possibility of EV vehicles in the future sure threaten our maxed out electrical grids.

[SASKFARMER]

Forage his farm is less than 40 miles from a major power plant.

[shtferbrains]

Word here was we had near zero pressure in gas distribution lines on Monday.
No much industry to shut down around here.

[Oliver88]

after the last power outage of 18 hrs, we have gotten a Generac backup power generator, hope to have the install finished once this cold snap ends.. We have been lucky, our gas fireplace doesn't need any electricity to fire up..

I have been told by a Sask Power supervisor that if EVs really do come on stream like the gov't wants(2030) the power grid won't handle it... Upgrades are needed now, never mind about the doubling of electricity use with the EVs

What size of Generac is required for a typical house?

[seldomseen]

The wood stove keeps the house warm and can boil water or heat up soup and have even roasted hot dogs on it.

Leafcutter bees are kept in a shop at 5 degrees and when it -40 and windy that 5 degree shop can drop below 0 really fast when the power goes off! Going to need a back up.

Looking on Twitter today there was more than just us in the NE that lost power!

[jazz]

spent most of the morning on a trial run for keeping 3 houses and 2 shops from freezing , so when the big one comes , and it will, we will be ready

case, is the big one the next storm or the cyber attack on the power grid that the clowns at the WEF keep talking about.

Can you imagine having to prepare for the weather, the stupidity of our own politicians and the downright evil of these unelected idiots.