TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline (“the project”) may experience yet another challenge as it will likely undergo an environmental impact assessment and review (“EIAR”) by Quebec’s Bureau d’audience publique sur l’environnement (“BAPE”), as required by the province’s Environment Quality Act […]
Ontario is in the process of privatizing Hydro One. How is this best done? What role should restructuring play? And should other privatizations follow? This paper seeks to learn some lessons from experience in the UK and elsewhere over the […]
Introduction In advance of the COP21 climate change meetings in Paris last December, and in concert with the carbon policies announced by the new federal Liberal government, on November 22, 2015 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley advanced several climate related policies […]
Introduction 2015 was a banner year for the judicial elaboration of principles of Administrative Law in Energy Law and Regulation settings. A number of these developments have been discussed already in the pages of the Energy Regulation Quarterly. Nigel Bankes […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld FERC’s Order 745.1 That order requires operators of wholesale energy markets to treat demand side bids comparably to generation bids. Comparable treatment requires that demand side bidders (a) be allowed to compete with generators […]
Arbitration is the common dispute resolution procedure in the energy industry. The reasons differ depending on whether it is the upstream sector or the downstream sector. Most of the writing about energy arbitration relates to the upstream sector, which is […]
My purpose here is to take a few minutes, after 100 years, to put Alberta’s public utility regulatory agency into some economic, legal, political and historical context.1 In 1915, the province found itself inundated with complaints from Albertans who wanted […]