I. INTRODUCTION In last year’s survey,[1] I discussed briefly the Alberta Court of Appeal’s granting of leave to appeal in AltaLink Management Ltd. v Alberta Utilities Commission,[2] a case which appeared to raise significant issues about the application of the […]
INTRODUCTION Offshore renewable energy (“ORE”) sources — offshore wind, tidal and wave energy — have the potential to materially benefit the four provinces of Atlantic Canada.[1] Through project work, clean power exports and the invigoration of offshore supply chains, ORE […]
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has a new governance structure, the product of the “Ontario Energy Board Modernization Review Panel” (the “Dicerni Panel“) and the recommendations of its Report (the “Dicerni Report“)[1] enacted by the Fixing the […]
The key messages of Dr. Steven E. Koonin’s new book, Unsettled (2021), on the current state of climate science and its implications for energy policy, though cogently organized and expressed, are nonetheless disorienting. Rather than offering the conventional warnings of […]
An impassioned plea to retire and replace all existing equipment in the fossil fuel chain — from exploration and production to utilization — Saul Griffith’s Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future (2021) (hereafter, “Electrify”) is quite the […]