On June 15, 2018, then Premier-designate Doug Ford announced that Ontario would not participate in the quarterly cap and trade allowance auction as part of the linked California-Quebec-Ontario Cap and Trade system (WCI System), and thereby triggered the rapid repeal and demise of Ontario’s cap and trade, carbon pricing system (CT System) 18 months after it began[…]

On March 22, 2018, the Ontario Energy Board (“OEB”) issued its Final Report on Wireline Pole Attachment Charges (the “Final Report”) setting the amount that telecom carriers will pay to attach wirelines to electricity poles […]

The Environment Quality Act (hereinafter EQA), the key legislation governing Quebec’s environmental regime, had not been thoroughly reviewed or revised since it was passed in 1972 […]

If enacted, Bill C-69 will entail significant changes to the regulation of offshore energy projects in Atlantic Canada […]

On February 8, 2018, after nearly two years of expert panel and parliamentary committee review, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. […]

For this year’s survey of administrative law developments of significance for energy law and regulation, there were many candidates for inclusion, several of which arose out of the energy regulatory process itself […]