Introduction: Canada’s Energy Future Many factors will determine Canada’s energy future over the next few decades. Carbon pricing and climate commitments; the constantly shifting state of international energy markets; potentially radical technological advances from electric power to vehicles to hydrocarbon […]
Ontario’s new Fair Hydro Plan Act, 20171 (“FHP Act”), which received Royal Assent June 1, 2017, upends Ontario Energy Board (OEB) oversight over rates paid by households, small businesses, and farm consumers, restructures the financial architecture of Ontario’s power system, […]
Ontario’s “Fair Hydro Plan” has reduced current electricity bills for Ontario consumers by 25 per cent, effective July 1, 2017. 1 This is being accomplished through a number of measures, including the removal of the provincial portion of HST from […]
Author: Adam White1 Newspaper editors and industry pundits have panned energy policy decisions of the Government of Ontario.2 They argue that weaknesses and structural failures, with respect to who should do what, lie at the root of what went wrong […]
The National Energy Board (NEB) has been regulating interprovincial and international hydrocarbon pipelines and international power lines for almost 60 years. Its enabling legislation, the National Energy Board Act (NEB Act)1 instructs it to satisfy itself that, before approving facilities, […]
The Canadian federal government has spent the last 18 months considering environmental assessment (EA) reform. The Government has stated the goals of this reform as regaining public trust, protecting the environment, advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and ensuring “good projects […]
1. Introduction This article provides a summary of and preliminary comments on the Report of the Expert Panel on the Modernization of the National Energy Board1 (NEB Expert Panel Report) which was released in May 2017.2 This report is one […]
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 […]
On 12 May 2017, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-48, the proposed Oil Tanker Moratorium Act1, in Parliament. This initiative follows up on the launch of the national Oceans Protection Plan in November 2016 and fulfils the Prime Minister’s […]