The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) concluded the $93 million investment of Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI) in a wind power project called South Canoe was a capital expenditure that should be included in NSPI’s rate base.1 South […]
The construction of new pipelines, and the expansion, reversal or re-purposing of existing pipelines have always attracted controversy in Canada and the almost inevitable applications for judicial review or appeal. Consider, for example, the efforts to license the Makenzie Natural […]
The past year saw noteworthy developments around the regulation of mergers and acquisitions in the electricity sector in both Ontario and Alberta. The energy regulators of those provinces each considered the approval of significant acquisitions of utilities within their respective […]
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 […]