Minister responsible for SaskPower Dustin Duncan was the keynote speaker at the Canadian Electricity Association’s annual symposium in Regina Wednesday.

The symposium served as an opportunity for industry leaders to come together and brainstorm solutions to current and future problems in generating power.

Duncan said a big focus was the environment and how power companies can reduce emissions.

“My argument would be that our plan, prairie resilience, in the way that that impacts SaskPower, but specifically the economy more broadly, is a plan that other provinces should look at,” Duncan said. “In fact, we know that other provinces have started to look at prairie resilience.”

Duncan said provinces and power companies are coming together in opposition of a carbon tax.

“It wasn’t that long ago when Saskatchewan was pretty lonely in terms of our opposition of a carbon tax,” Duncan said. “We’re seeing more and more provinces that are joining the fight against the imposition of a carbon tax by the federal government.”

Duncan adds SaskPower has a goal to reduce emissions by 40 percent of 2005 levels, and made that goal before the federal government enforced their mandates.