Uh, so can you talk a little bit about that, and is SaskPower gonna be building these, or could it be Bruce Power, or it could be someone else? And Bronwyn, I'm sure you have some thoughts on that.

Yeah.

Well, maybe I'll, I'll, I'll turn it over to Bronwyn just in a, a moment.

I'll, I'll address a couple of those points though, Brian, as far as the, uh, as far as the costing estimates, which, you know, have gone, gone down significantly.

I think, you know, the, the Vogtle scenario, who is well-known, um, in the, in the nuclear community globally as to, um, you know, the significant cost overruns that occurred in Vogtle, which really led to Westinghouse being acquired by Cameco and Brookfield.

I mean, it basically bankrupted the, the company.

Um, and I think that they, they would say as well, um, you know, a lot of lessons were learned through that, that process.

Maybe the question should be asked, why doesn't everything else in our society happen as fast? Why didn't we get Northern Gateway or Energy East built or anything else? Why does everything have to take so damn long to actually happen? Why can't we do things like this and make stuff happen?

And so I think the lessons could be very important here.

Yeah, well, I appreciate that observation.

You're entirely right.

So we did an event last week.

We flew up to a uranium mine groundbreaking, which will be the largest uranium mine in the world, hugely significant investment in northern Saskatchewan.

So on that flight up, NextGen is the name of the company, had invited a number of folks who were quite involved in getting to the point of the groundbreaking.

So on the plane, were Stephen Harper, Brad Wall, Scott Moe, myself, and a federal liberal cabinet minister who had been the long-term MLA in northern Saskatchewan.

Give us a little insight, brother.

... facility in our province?

You know what? I, I am actually quite optimistic on, on different elements of that, of value chain in ur- in the uranium space.

Really in an unprecedented way, as a part of their nuclear strategy, it didn't actually get a lot of attention, but the federal government explicitly held the door open to becoming an enriching nation, um, which was a, you know, very real change in public policy from any government of Canada.

Um, it didn't get a lot of attention.

I've, you know, talked about it publicly and given credit to the federal government for keeping that door open.

Um, you know, I think Cameco, uh, Tim Gitzel was talking about it yesterday, um, at the announcement, um, talking about how Cameco are very much prepared to move into that space.

They have experience, they have partnerships in that space already, um, in other parts of the world, and I think it would very much make sense for, uh, Canada to move into that space as well, particularly considering, I mean, OPG are building right now the BWRX-300, which uses enriched fuel.

Um, what is the plan? Do we, do we know, do we have a bit of an idea of a business case how we mitigate the impact that this could have on Saskatchewan people?

Your thoughts there.

There, there will be elements of the project that will have to go through an EIA.

So the power generation component, there is a requirement for an environmental impact assessment.

I mean, there, there's a legal threshold for, uh, for whether EIAs are required.

That is something I'll, I'll leave, uh, leave for the environment ministry and Bell to, to work through.

But, you know, o-one of the things I would say, um, you know, I think that there is concern, and part of what you've probably been hearing, um, you know, is concern around AI.

And I think really that manifests itself in conversations about, about other things.

Would that have maybe quelled some fears?

Uh, Jeremy, w- how should we feel about this? Should there be unease? Should there be concern?

Yeah.

Um, hi, Tim, and happy Wednesday [laughs].

Yeah.

Y- I mean, you're, you're quite right.

I think that's the natural reaction.

And I think, um, I'm in the uncomfortable position of having to say I think it's a correct reaction.

Yeah

Can you, can you explain, does the 2.6 billion for refurbishment fit in there, and what else would be included?

It, it does.

So, so the document that the, uh, that the opposition put forward was a, it was an incomplete and early draft of a, of a board submission.

Um, but what the overall number, the 11.4 for, um, for overall maintenance, operation, sustainment, that included all of those things.

Um, the $2.6 billion was very clearly included though as a, as a part of that, um, 11.4. You know, a big cl- part of the cost over 25 years is fuel, and that, that really is where I think we have a very, very different approach than the NDP.

I know what the cost for coal is gonna be over 25 years.

Um, it's the same as it is today.

Which is true?