This month's Weaver is packed with wonderful information and messages from your Leader and SGP Executive. Stay up to date. Be informed.
If our SaskParty government really wanted affordable, reliable electricity for people living in this province, then we would see them invest seriously in geothermal, wind and solar – instead of wasting our hard-earned tax dollars on extending the life of our dirty, outdated coal plants. At a time when we are at a tipping point for holding on to life as we know it, and when leaving a liveable world for the next generations rests on ending our carbon addiction, Scott Moe seems to be saying “Burn baby, burn”. He’s keeping Saskatchewan stuck as the last province still relying primarily on coal, with his only alternative plan a decades-away fairytale of never-before-built, extremely expensive ($5 billion for just one!) Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
Literally the Rest of the World is busy kicking its coal addiction, but Saskatchewan’s government insists on continuing to get power from coal, despite coal’s massive contribution to the carbon pollution that causes so many forest fires in our North and makes a mockery of our plans for ensuring a healthy life for our children and grandchildren.
AGM Roundup - New Executive
Our new executive was announced at the AGM on June 7th. We have several new faces and are already establishing groups and committees. All executive positions are filled, but members are always welcome to volunteer and help out. The next scheduled election is still more than three years away, but there is plenty of exciting work to do to prepare, and there may be a few byelections to work on before then.
Your SGP executive:
President: Mike Hamm - [email protected]
Vice-president: Remi Rheault - [email protected]
Secretary: Whitney Greenleaf
Treasurer/COA: Sherry Olsen
Organizing Chair: Sean Muirhead
Fundraising: Nancy Carswell
Northern Youth Rep.: Jupiter Neault
Southern Youth Rep.: Darry Michelle
Member-at-Large: Bo Chen
Member-at-Large: Eric Hansen
Member-at-Large: Alison (Ven) Feland
Petitions - Take Action and Please Sign
You can make a difference.
Together, we can create real change in this province. As people across the province mobilize and add their voices to petitions for change, we build strength and resilience together. Add your voice today.
End Homelessness in Saskatchewan
https://www.saskgreen.ca/end_homelessness_in_saskatchewan
Ending Poverty in Saskatchewan
https://www.saskgreen.ca/ending_poverty_in_saskatchewan
SK must act now to remove asbestos in our drinking water
https://www.saskgreen.ca/asbestos_in_our_drinking_water
SK needs a Wetlands Policy
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_needs_a_wetlands_policy
SK needs Renewable Energy, not nuclear waste.
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_needs_renewable_energy_not_nuclear_waste
SK demands a new approach to healthcare
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_demands_a_new_approach_to_healthcare
Saskatchewan to Extend Life of Its Coal Plants
The Energy mix - Canadian Press - June 23, 2025 - Saskatchewan’s government is planning to extend the life of the province’s coal plants before moving to nuclear power generation, says a letter from the Crown Investments Corporation Minister. “SaskPower will be life extending up to approximately 1500 megawatts of coal assets,” he wrote. “Other jurisdictions around the world are refurbishing coal plants that are many times that size.”
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CAPE Saskatchewan condemns province’s decision to extend coal plants, warns of severe health consequences
Saskatoon | Treaty 6 Territory, Homeland of the Métis Nation | June 24, 2025 — The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Saskatchewan strongly condemns the provincial government’s decision to extend the life of coal-fired power plants beyond the 2030 federal phase-out deadline.
“This decision is a serious threat to public health,” said Dr. Murray Opdahl, family physician and Co-Chair of CAPE Saskatchewan. “Between now and 2031, air pollution in Saskatchewan will cause 3 million illness days, over 12,000 emergency room visits, and between 600 and 2,400 premature deaths. These aren’t just statistics; they are our parents, grandparents, and neighbours.”
Trade Wars Distract From Climate Change Emergency
By Gwynne Dyer • Special to Postmedia News - Published Jun 08, 2025 - This is the second anniversary of the emergency, but practically nobody is mentioning it. Instead, people are choosing to worry about more familiar problems like global trade wars, the rise of fascism and genocidal wars.
Two years ago this month (June 2023), the average global temperature jumped by a third of a Celsius degree in a single month. That shook the climate science world to its foundation, because the orthodox predictions assumed about one-tenth of a degree of warming every five years.
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On moral dissonance in times of climate change
The Star Phoenix, June 21, 2025 - By Steve Bartlett - This kind of subtle denial only compounds the moral and cognitive dissonance we are all living with. We call it climate anxiety, and children as young as nine years old are suffering from it, according to Canadian research published in Frontiers in Psychology. They see what’s happening, and they see the grown-ups doing nothing about it. It is the background noise of our hearts and minds: this growing sense that our dependency on petro-charged transportation, food, heating and housing systems is making the climate hostile to life, and we are running out of time to turn things around.
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First Nation Sues for Failure to Protect Saskatchewan River Delta
CTV News, June 10, 2025 - Cumberland House Cree Nation (CHCN) is suing the Saskatchewan government for failing to protect its most vital resource: the Saskatchewan River Delta, North America’s largest inland delta.
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The Saskatchewan River Delta is in danger of depleting
Regina Leader Post, June 14, 2025 - There are three hydro dams on the river, and a major irrigation project is planned using water from Lake Diefenbaker.
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First Nations youth say they're 'starting a movement' against major projects bills
MooseJawToday.com, June 21, 2025, Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press - First Nations youth leaders are warning Canadians can expect a long, tense summer of protests as governments push forward with plans to fast-track major projects, and young people will be leading the charge.
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Wildfires in the Prairies are affecting air quality across Canada
CBC - The Canadian Press - Jun 07, 2025 - Poor air quality fuelled by wildfires burning across the Prairies left a large swath of the country enveloped in a haze again on Saturday, but Environment Canada said the situation is expected to improve over the weekend.
Parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador were experiencing poor air quality and reduced visibility due to the wildfires, a situation expected to continue through Sunday.
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The Electrotech Revolution Is Here—And Booming
The Energy Mix - June 18, 2025, by Chris Bonasia - The “fashionable pessimism” bemoaning a failing energy transition misses the bigger picture of progress, says a team of energy analysts aiming to reshape the conversation around electricity-based technologies.
“Amid all the noise, one thing is clear: new energy tech is growing consistently, and with increasing impact,” write researchers with Ember and RMI—Daan Walter, Sam Butler-Sloss, and Kingsmill Bond, in their Substack digest, The Electrotech Revolution.
Reports of stalling electric vehicle growth, climbing emissions, missed net-zero targets, and unravelling climate regulations feed a narrative that “the whole project is doomed,” they write. But those despairing trends leave out many instances of progress: global clean energy investment has doubled fossil fuel spending, solar capacity keeps climbing, and in China—“the world’s first electrostate”—half of all new cars sold are electric.
“Electrotech is accelerating so quickly that China may have already hit peak fossil fuel demand this year—and with China, so too will the world,” the researchers say. “You wouldn’t know it from most headlines.”
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'Losing their lives': Trans youth struggling with Sask. pronoun consent law two years later
Regina Leader Post, June 13, 2025, by Nykole King - A recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal showed that transgender adolescents across the country are 7.6 times more likely to attempt suicide compared to their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts.
“Kids are basically losing their lives just because you can't accept them for who they are and that's disgusting.”
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