Ensuring that the lights stay on and Canadian businesses can operate 24/7 is an essential public good provided by the country’s electricity sector. However, as with other sectors, electric utilities must innovate to meet the requirements of the modern age[…]
As this issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly goes to press, the political and regulatory framework governing federal pipelines is in turmoil, resulting directly from the late-August decision of the Federal Court of Appeal quashing approval of the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX)[…]
Despite its title, The Guide to Energy Market Manipulation is not a how-to book for entrepreneurial energy traders! Rather, as Joseph Kelliher notes in the foreword, it is a first-of-its-kind survey of the developing law of market manipulation across nations and energy sectors that combines contributions from recognized experts in each area […]
Few innovations have been more transformative than the production and distribution of electricity in the latter years of the nineteenth century. Overnight, cities and towns in the United States and Canada were lifted out of the dirty and dark age […]
This slim book (212 pages), which is packed with lots of energy information in addition to discussing everything you wanted to know about batteries, is the product of the Smart Grid Project at the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy […]
Reviewed by Gordon E. Kaiser* Most disputes in the energy sector are ultimately resolved by either a regulatory agency or an arbitration panel. The courts are generally a distant third. Regulators have the primary jurisdiction but the majority of the […]
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 […]
In his Preface to The Guide to Energy Arbitrations, William Rowley QC notes that “if a single industry can lay claim to parental responsibility for the present universality of international arbitration as the go-to choice for the resolution of commercial […]
Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has now published his 29th book (I may be one or two out) “Dealing with Losers”. Michael, a most distinguished academic lawyer/political economist has since his first book in 1997, […]