Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Project: cabinet approval but complex court proceedings
The Joint Review Panel (JRP) for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Project (NGP) issued its Final Report on the project on December 19, 2013 […]
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The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
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Alberta Utilities Asset Disposition Decision
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 […]
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The Prudence Doctrine goes to the Supreme Court of Canada
Alberta and ontario appeals to be heard at the same time
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 […]
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Alberta Decision in Market Surveillance Administrator v. TransAlta
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 […]
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The Tsilhqot’in Decision: The Supreme Court Confirms Aboriginal Title
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 […]
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Balancing Caution and Pragmatism, Federal Court Finds “Gaps” in Darlington Environmental Assessment, Revokes Licence and Orders Reconsideration
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) […]
Book Reviews
Dealing with Losers, the Political Economy of Policy Transitions
by Michael Trebilcock OUP USA
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, […]
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by Russel Gold Simon & Schuster Canada
The development of natural gas and oil using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, (“Fraccing,” or “Fracking,” depending on one’s position on it) has been one of the most revolutionary and one of most divisive events in the last hundred years […]