Canada is a signatory to the Paris Agreement, negotiated at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (“COP 21”) in December of 2015. As part of its commitment, Canada confirmed that it will reduce its greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by […]
Introduction Energy development sometimes faces powerful local opposition in communities across Canada. Energy companies have found themselves under the microscope and regulators have been forced to confront their evolving role in this new context. New research from the University of […]
Readers of a certain age learned as infants that “transmission is a natural monopoly.” If so, then “transmission competition” is an oxymoron, right? Wrong, said FERC. In Order 1000, FERC directed incumbent transmission owners to delete the contract clauses they […]
As energy costs in Ontario have continued to rise, the effective representation of consumers in regulatory rate-setting procedures and other hearings has become increasingly important. This Policy Brief reviews recent developments in the representation of consumer interests in regulatory procedures […]
Introduction1 Public policy on decarbonisation is driven to a large degree by specific carbon targets put forth by politicians and policy makers. In Western economies, this often involves targeted reductions of total output of atmospheric carbon, though such reductions are […]
TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline (“the project”) may experience yet another challenge as it will likely undergo an environmental impact assessment and review (“EIAR”) by Quebec’s Bureau d’audience publique sur l’environnement (“BAPE”), as required by the province’s Environment Quality Act […]
Ontario is in the process of privatizing Hydro One. How is this best done? What role should restructuring play? And should other privatizations follow? This paper seeks to learn some lessons from experience in the UK and elsewhere over the […]