In 2019, the newly elected government of Alberta announced that it was creating an Associate Minister of Red Tape Reduction and passed the Alberta Red Tape Reduction Act. In response, the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) took the initiative and appointed an independent committee, named the AUC Procedures and Processes Review Committee, to “review the Commission’s rate application adjudicative processes and procedures and make recommendations to the AUC Chair[…]

Background The recent Ontario Energy Board (OEB) decision regarding displaying the cost of ‘cap and trade’ on customers’ bills has ruffled a few feathers.1  In a decision relating to how bills that contain the new ‘cap and trade’ charges should […]

Two cases decided by the Supreme Court on September 25th, 2015 paved the way for utility regulators to address utility costs without fear of formalism […]