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“It took over 2 million on-site labour hours to safely
build the Chinook Power Station. We worked “One of our strategic priorities
extensively at the beginning of the project to make is to modernize the grid, while
sure our design would not require costly revisions reducing our greenhouse gas
later on down the line and we also met regularly emissions in accordance with our
throughout the project to review project risks 2030 targets.”
and adjust our forecast, so we were able to bring
the project in under budget. That was definitely a
positive thing for SaskPower,” says Cherry. equipment of this size and therefore this work
required the company to source equipment from
ECONOMIC SPIN-OFFS outside Saskatchewan and Canada.
In total, $430 million worth of contracts were “Wherever possible, we used local services to
available on Chinook. Cherry says it’s important complete aspects related to this work that could be
to note that for the largest contracts available (e.g. done locally (e.g. installing the equipment built out-
turbines and generators) no local companies had of-country and general construction activities with
the experience or capability to build and install local resources),” says Cherry.
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