The Saskatchewan Environmental Society together with Citizens for Public Justice and three individual applicants, have filed notice of appeal in the coal power extension case.

The appeal relates to the January Court of King’s Bench ruling that the decision is a matter of government policy and is not subject to judicial review.

SES President Margret Asmuss says they are asking the Court of Appeal to allow the case to proceed to a full hearing because the court dismissed the case without allowing the full arguments to be heard.

SES contends that the Saskatchewan government’s decision to extend coal-fired power generation is not a policy decision but involves concrete administrative actions, including plans to spend almost one billion dollars retrofitting aging coal-fired power stations with the explicit intention of operating them well beyond December 31, 2029 – the date by which federal law requires all conventional coal-fired power plants in Canada to cease operations.

The Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES), together with Citizens for Public Justice and three individual applicants, has filed a notice of appeal to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in our legal challenge of the Government of Saskatchewan’s decision to openly defy federal regulations that require the phase-out of unabated coal-fired power generation by 2030.

SES Vice President Bob Halliday says, “Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada extending the use of coal to generate electricity.”  The organization maintains that taxpayer dollars would be better spent on clean, reliable, and renewable energy.