Local Business

In advance of the coming fall election in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has released its suggested energy policies, to both the Saskatchewan Party and the New Democratic Party, for consideration.

Sixty-two per cent of the crop in the province has been combined, up from 43 per cent last week and well ahead of the five-year (2015-2019) average of 48 per cent. An additional 27 per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to be straight-cut.

Derrick Big Eagle couldn’t go see what was left of the drilling rigs he had built, as several were scrapped in recent weeks in the former Eagle Drilling Services yard in Carlyle.

“The global consensus is clear.

Fuel Good Day was back again this year. On Sept. 15, Estevan’s co-op gas bars were holding the traditional fundraiser. For every litre of fuel purchased on that day at one of the Estevan’s co-op gas stations, the Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

Like a giant Tyrannosaurus rex tearing through its prey, a 52-tonne excavator equipped with large hydraulic shears tore through the last skid-mounted building of what was once a Saskatchewan-based drilling rig on Sept. 14.

DMS Services in Estevan has given the community a retail computer store, and it’s always eager to meet the needs of the community.

Average farmland values in Canada once again showed modest increases for the first half of 2020, although the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had yet to be weighed, according to a review by Farm Credit Canada .

( This drilling rig, built by Totem Drilling, became a CanElson Drilling, then Trinidad Drilling, and finally Ensign Drilling rig.

The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station had another excellent month in August, setting a new 2020 mark for the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured.