A single 148 m (486 ft) smokestack is located at the plant, the tallest freestanding structure in Saskatchewan.

The unit at Shand would have to be retired by 2030 under federal regulations unless carbon capture and storage was installed.

[3] Shand Greenhouse was built in 1991 near the power station and is part of an initiative to offset the environmental impact of burning coal.

The greenhouse grow and distribute seedlings free of charge to schools, communities and individuals for conservation and wildlife habitat projects.

[4] The species of trees that are grown and given to the communities include: buffaloberry, bur oak, choke cherry, Colorado blue spruce, eastern red cedar, green ash, jack pine, lodgepole pine, Manitoba maple, pin cherry, plains cottonwood, red alder, red-osier dogwood, Saskatoon berry, Scots pine, sea-buckthorn, shrub willow, Siberian crab, Siberian larch, trembling aspen or white poplar, villosa lilac, western sandcherry, white birch or paper birch, willow, and Woods' rose.