The Impact Assessment Act, Canadian Energy Regulator Act and Offshore Energy: A View from Atlantic Canada
If enacted, Bill C-69 will entail significant changes to the regulation of offshore energy projects in Atlantic Canada […]

On February 8, 2018, after nearly two years of expert panel and parliamentary committee review, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. […]
Traditionally most decisions relating to the energy system have been in the hands of provincial or federal authorities. However a number of trends point to a growing authority on the part of municipal governments and Indigenous governments […]
1. Background The development of Quebec’s oil and gas industry in the last decade has been quite a saga. First, a good portion of its hydrocarbon reserves must be obtained through controversial methods like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Second, […]
Linkage will take effect on January 1, 2018 Ontario plans to join the Québec-California carbon market as of January 1, 2018, under a harmonization and integration agreement (linkage agreement) announced on September 22.1 The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and […]
1. Introduction The July 2017 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in two duty to consult cases involving the National Energy Board, Chippewas of the Thames and Hamlet of Clyde River,1 marked in some ways a restatement of a […]