Services at three of Saskatchewan’s main Crowns will be affected later this week if a planned strike by almost 4,500 employees goes ahead as planned by their union. Unifor announced on the weekend a full-scale strike would occur on Friday if a new deal was not reached with the provincial government. A “work-to-rule” campaign has […]
An incident that caused some concern in the town of Montmartre has been cleared up. On September 23, RCMP warned the public of a potential scam after a man dressed as a SaskPower worker visited a home in the town and told the resident of the home he was there to do repairs. The man […]
The union representing around 4,700 workers at SaskTel, two of their subsidiaries along with SaskPower, Sask Energy, SaskWater and the Water Security agency have given notice that “work-to-rule” job action will begin Monday morning. Unifor released a statement Saturday afternoon saying no further negotiations with the provincial government are planned for the weekend and the […]
Unifor members of Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations gathered at Hotel Saskatchewan to try and get deals done for the nearly 5,000 members in a strike position. Bargaining will take place Thursday and Friday to try to get a deal done. If it doesn’t, Unifor has said they will come together to make a determination of when […]
The future of the now-stalled net metering program will be conducted in a review over the next couple weeks, according to an announcement on Monday from Minister responsible for SaskPower Dustin Duncan. SaskPower will be evaluating how to move forward with the program after reaching their cap of 16 megawatts last week, over two years […]
Saskatchewan has the best solar exposure in the country and it needs to be put to good use. That from NDP Leader Ryan Meili in reaction to the news that SaskPower’s net metering program has reached its cap, meaning no more customers can take advantage of it for solar installations and premium credits. SaskPower said […]
SaskPower’s Net Metering program will reach it’s capacity two year’s earlier than anticipated. This program allows customers to install solar panels on their houses and businesses and get credits for surplus power. SaskPower says it re-launched the program in November and would take applications until it reached a cap of 16 mega-watts or until November […]
SaskPower is warning customers of a recent text message scam. SaskPower’s Joel Cherry says customer service is getting multiple calls of people receiving text messages from someone claiming to be from the utility giving refunds for overbilling the customer. “If one were to actually click the link in those texts, you would be brought to […]
UPDATE SaskPower states power has been restored to neighbourhoods in east, southeast and northeast Regina, along with the rural area east of Regina, and Pilot Butte. Original story SaskPower has crews working to bring back power to a number of homes affected by power outages on Sunday in Regina. The affected neighbourhoods are in […]
Sask Power is reminding farmers to be cautious around power infrastructure during this harvest season. The crown corporation says there have already been 240 reported incidents of farm machinery coming into contact with power poles and lines while farmers work in the fields. That is 10 more than what was reported at the same time […]
