It is increasingly being recognized that, among the many challenges in implementing measures to address government emission reduction targets, the development of innovative regulatory approaches will be critical[…]

From time-to-time the Editors of Energy Regulation Quarterly invite law firms and others to address certain topics of particular importance to energy regulators[…]

Two developments in the past decade have fundamentally transformed the federal Canadian framework for reviewing proposals for interprovincial and international pipeline projects[…]

Few of us have experienced a year like 2020. For the energy sector it was a brutal combination of low oil prices, a national coronavirus lockdown, and a severe economic downturn. It was also a signature year in terms of the shift in rhetoric and investment dollars away from conventional fuels and technologies to emerging ones[…]

Initiatives to address climate change continue to permeate developments in energy regulation, with significant implications for both regulators and the industries they regulate[…]

Natural gas plays a central role in various initiatives aimed at moving towards reducing carbon emissions. That role, however, sometimes appears inconsistent, indeed self-contradictory. On the one hand, as the cleanest-burning, lowest carbon-emitting of the hydrocarbon fuels, wider use of natural gas is often promoted as a “bridging fuel,” particularly to replace the burning of coal[…]