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2020: The Energy Regulation Year in Review

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

Few of us have experienced a year like 2020. For the energy sector it was a brutal combination of low oil prices, a national coronavirus lockdown, and a severe economic downturn. It was also a signature year in terms of the shift in rhetoric and investment dollars away from conventional fuels and technologies to emerging ones[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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2020 Developments in Administrative Law Relevant to Energy Law1

Author: David J. Mullan ×

Having shaken up the principles and methodology of Canadian judicial review of administrative action at the very end of 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada took a breather from Administrative Law throughout 2020[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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The Washington Report

Author: Robert S. Fleishman ×

When the ERQ started publishing almost 10 years ago, the first edition of every year was scheduled to review the highlights of the energy regulation year for both Canada and the United States[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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Reducing Red Tape in Alberta: A Commission, a Committee, and Recommendations

Author: Moin A. Yahya ×

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[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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The Heathrow Airport Case Revisited

Authors: Melanie Gillis and James MacDuff ×

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[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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A Literature Review on Regulatory Independence in Canada’s Energy Systems: Origins, Rationale and Key Features, Ian T. D. Thomson, Positive Energy, University of Ottawa, November 2020

Author: Rowland J. Harrison, K.C. ×

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.”[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations1

Author: Kenneth A. Barry ×

It has been nine years since Daniel Yergin published The Quest, a panoramic examination of the energy industry — its evolution, its booms and busts, and how it propels the economic ambitions and geopolitical fortunes of governments[…]

April 2021 – Volume 9, issue 1 2021
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