Coldwater Indian Band et al v The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development et al was heard and decided on November 25, 2014.1 The Federal Court of Appeal overturned the Federal Court’s decision to allow, in part, a judicial […]
On July 28, 2014, the Government of Alberta (Alberta) issued its Guidelines on Consultation with First Nations on Land and Natural Resource Management (the Guidelines). The Guidelines supplement the Policy on Consultation with First Nations on Land and Natural Resource […]
I Introduction In November 2013, the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) issued its Utility Asset Disposition (UAD) decision following a generic proceeding convened in order to establish the principles that should apply to the disposition of utility assets in Alberta, including […]
It’s not every day that a decision of a Canadian energy regulator goes to the Supreme Court of Canada. It is even rarer when two go together from different provinces on essentially the same issue. The issue in these cases […]
Decision commented on: AUC Decision 2014-1351, TransAlta Corporation, TransAlta Energy Marketing Corp., TransAlta Generation Partnership, Mr. Nathan Kaiser and Mr. Scott Connelly; Complaints about the conduct of the Market Surveillance Administrator, May 15, 2014 The Alberta Utilities Commission has now […]
The importance of the recent Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44 (the “Decision”) has not gone unnoticed, being variously referred to as “historic”, a “game-changer” and a “landmark” decision. Historic? Yes. A game-changer? Not necessarily […]
In a rare (and over 200-page) decision, the Federal Court of Canada revoked the Licence given to Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to construct new nuclear generation units at the existing Darlington nuclear facility, and ordered that the environmental assessment (EA) […]