Electricity Storage in North America
×Energy Storage is said by some to be the ‘’Holy Grail’’ of energy technology[…]
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The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
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NAFTA 2.0: Drilling Down – The Impact of CUSMA/USMCA on Canadian Energy Stakeholders
×On November 30, 2018, after 14 months of heated negotiations, representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada signed the NAFTA 2.0, known as the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA), or as referred to officially by the Government of Canada, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)[…]
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2018 Developments in Administrative Law Relevant to Energy Law and Regulation
×2018 was in many ways a landmark year in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law jurisprudence. At a time marking the transition from the McLachlin to the Wagner Court, fissures continued to widen among the members of the Court with respect to not only the methodology for selection of the standard of review to be applied in judicial review of administrative decision-making but also the modalities by which predominant reasonableness review is conducted[…]
Editorials
EDITORIAL
×Each year when we write this Annual Review we face the same issues. The first issue on the list is always pipelines. In the 2016 Annual Review the first heading was “The Pipeline Delays are Over”. Last year, the first heading of the review was “Pipeline Delays are Back”. This year, the first heading is “Pipeline Delays Continue”[…]
Book Reviews
PIPE DREAMS: The Fight for Canada’s Energy Future
×As this issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly goes to press, the political and regulatory framework governing federal pipelines is in turmoil, resulting directly from the late-August decision of the Federal Court of Appeal quashing approval of the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX)[…]
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Union Enbridge Merger
×On August 30, 2018, a panel (the “Panel”) of the Ontario Energy Board (the “OEB”) approved a proposed amalgamation of Enbridge Gas Distribution (“Enbridge”) and Union Gas Limited (“Union Gas”) (together, the “Applicants”), pursuant to s. 43(1) of the Ontario Energy Board Act, (1998)1 (the “Act”)[…]
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Offshore Oil Development in Uncharted Legal Waters: Will the Proposed Bay du Nord Project Precipitate Another Federal-Provincial Conflict?
×In late July, 2018 Equinor Canada Ltd. (formerly Statoil Canada Ltd.) and the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a framework agreement for the potential development of the Bay du Nord oil discovery located approximately 270 nautical miles (500 kilometres) offshore[…]