The Saskatchewan Green Party is calling on the province to immediately move towards what it calls, a bold Green Recovery. The party wants local mills and their workers to produce the steel needed for such a plan. Last week, Evraz in Regina announced close to 600 workers in the Tubular Division at Evraz Steel will be laid off by December 17th.

The Green Party says the layoffs can be reversed and new opportunities created that move us away from dependence on what they call the precarious oil and gas sector.

Leader Naomi Hunter says, “500 more families in this province face financial ruin while Meili and Moe fight over pipelines.”

Hunter says jobs would be created by converting to steel production for renewable energy projects.
She says stainless steel is needed in many different forms to support renewable energy deployment.