Energy Regulation Quarterly

Introduction The National Energy Board (NEB or Board) recently approved an application by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (Enbridge) for reversal of its Line 9B (from Westover Station in Ontario to Montreal) and its proposed Capacity Expansion Project for the entire Line […]

Energy regulatory developments in the United States impact numerous sectors of the energy industry and address a wide swath of issues.  We reported on key federal and state energy regulatory developments in the United States during 2013 in the last […]

Managing Editors It is always useful to look back at the end of each year and analyse the main developments in energy regulation and identify the challenges going forward. That, after all, is one of the purposes of the Energy […]

Introduction This coming fall—November 18, 2014—will mark ten years since the Supreme Court of Canada released two seminal decisions on the Crown’s duty to consult Aboriginal peoples: Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), 2004 SCC 73 and Taku […]

Introduction Rate setting for local distribution companies (LDCs) is often a labor-intensive task for both regulators and LDCs. In Canada, most regulators use some form of rate of return regulation, which involves rate setting mechanism that require very complex and […]

The release of the Report of the Joint Review Panel for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, on December 19, 2013 will likely prove to be a watershed moment in the history of Canada’s federal pipeline regulation regime […]