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National Steel Car: A Constitutional Challenge to the Ontario Global Adjustment Charge to Electricity Consumers

Authors: Glenn Zacher and Daniel Gralnick ×

In legislative committee hearings that were part of the fallout from Ontario’s 2010 gas plant scandal, one of the more charged — some might say naïve — observations was offered by an expert witness who, when asked for his opinion on remedying Ontario’s continuing electricity woes, recommended that politicians “swear a blood oath to not meddle in electricity policy.”

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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Toronto Hydro Rate Decision Punts the Regulatory Treatment of Storage to the OEB DERs Consultation

Author: David Stevens ×

In its December 19, 2019 decision in Toronto Hydro’s “Custom IR” rate application, the Ontario Energy Board (“OEB”) ruled that utilities wishing to include behind-the-meter storage in their regulated operations should seek policy changes in the OEB’s ongoing Distributed Energy Resources (DER) consultation.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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The Structure of the Canadian Energy Regulator: A Questionable New Model for Governance of Energy Regulation Tribunals?

Authors: Rowland J. Harrison, K.C., Neil McCrank and Ron Wallace ×

With the coming into force on August 28, 2019 of Bill C-69 enacting the Canadian Energy Regulator Act (“CER Act”) and the Impact Assessment Act (“IA Act”), the federal assessment process for energy infrastructure projects was fundamentally restructured.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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Indigenous Peoples’ Ownership of Energy Projects1

Authors: Chrysten Perry, Keith Chatwin and Ben Hudy ×

Federal and provincial governments are required to consult with and accommodate Indigenous peoples whose rights may be affected by proposed energy projects.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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2019 Developments in Administrative Law Relevant to Energy Law and Regulation

Author: David J. Mullan ×

Until the middle of December, 2019 had been an unusually quiet year for Administrative Law judgments of significance, especially from the Supreme Court of Canada.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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EDITORIAL

Authors: Rowland J. Harrison, K.C. and Gordon E. Kaiser ×

Canada may soon receive the worldwide prize for being the most difficult jurisdiction to build energy projects in. This is particularly the case with pipelines. In the last five years, investors have walked from four major projects. In total they accounted for over $50 billion in investment.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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Capitalizing the Cloud: The Regulatory Challenges

Author: KPMG ×

The last time the Editors of the ERQ published an Editors Introduction was a year ago when we published a study prepared by two law firms, one in Canada and one in the United States that examined the regulatory challenges that were preventing the timely introduction of electricity storage technology into the electricity grid.

April 2020 – Volume 8, issue 1 2020
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