Alberta was the first Canadian jurisdiction to implement a restructured electrical power market. Structuring the electricity sector for competition led to policy determinations and reforms that unbundled generation and retailing functions and turned them over to competitive markets[…]
Washington State, that is. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has rejected the proposed acquisition of Avista (formerly Washington Water Power) by Hydro One, the government-controlled utility serving in Ontario, Canada. The Commission’s December 2018 Order emphasized two problems[…]
On November 30, 2018, after 14 months of heated negotiations, representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada signed the NAFTA 2.0, known as the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA), or as referred to officially by the Government of Canada, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)[…]
2018 was in many ways a landmark year in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law jurisprudence. At a time marking the transition from the McLachlin to the Wagner Court, fissures continued to widen among the members of the Court with respect to not only the methodology for selection of the standard of review to be applied in judicial review of administrative decision-making but also the modalities by which predominant reasonableness review is conducted[…]
In late July, 2018 Equinor Canada Ltd. (formerly Statoil Canada Ltd.) and the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a framework agreement for the potential development of the Bay du Nord oil discovery located approximately 270 nautical miles (500 kilometres) offshore[…]
While questions related to policies, programs and energy projects have been common for many years, they remain and are perhaps more complicated than ever. It could be seen as a cliché to say that we are living during a historic turning point[…]
Canada faces serious challenges and crucial decisions when it comes to governing a twenty first century energy system. They are seen in ongoing controversy over siting of wind farms, pipelines, new hydro, and transmission lines; tensions between movement on climate change and other energy objectives like oil sands development, competitiveness and consumer affordability, fracking implementation, and the reform of the National Energy Board, to name but a few[…]
