Legislation to reform, or “modernize”, the federal regulatory review process for major energy infrastructure projects is expected to be tabled in Parliament in the near future, perhaps as early as this fall. Regardless of how extensive any proposed changes may […]

The saga of the Keystone XL project’s tortuous journey through the U.S. public review process is by now well known. Despite repeated findings by the U.S. Department of State’s assessments that the project would result in “no substantive change in […]

Previous versions of the Canadian Energy Year in Review discussed major decisions that had impacts on the industry, but 2016 beats them all. Alberta and Québec both announced major changes to their regulatory processes. Although not formally announced yet, big […]

Canadian energy policy and regulation are currently dominated by measures to address climate change and by the scope of participation in review processes for proposed new energy infrastructure projects. The two issues are directly related, inasmuch as the demands of […]

Traditional economic regulation – involving interminable hearings on issues such as cost of capital, rolled-in versus incremental tolls, system access and unbundling, all in quest of the holy grail of “economic efficiency” – no longer dominates the business of Canadian […]

The New Industry Dynamics Six factors currently drive the energy sector in Canada at the national level: the drop in the price of oil; pipeline delays; the increase in shale gas; the increase in the delivery of crude oil by […]