The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
In 2019, the newly elected government of Alberta announced that it was creating an Associate Minister of Red Tape Reduction and passed the Alberta Red Tape Reduction Act. In response, the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) took the initiative and appointed an independent committee, named the AUC Procedures and Processes Review Committee, to “review the Commission’s rate application adjudicative processes and procedures and make recommendations to the AUC Chair[…]
The last issue of the Energy Regulation Quarterly published an article that featured the decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport and others. The decision offered a detailed examination of how climate change law can curtail large-scale infrastructure projects[…]
The purpose of the University of Ottawa’s Positive Energy initiative is to use “the convening power of the university to bring together academic researchers and senior decision-makers from industry, government, indigenous communities, local communities and environmental organizations to determine how to strengthen public confidence in energy decision-making.”[…]
