The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
Ontario’s “Fair Hydro Plan” has reduced current electricity bills for Ontario consumers by 25 per cent, effective July 1, 2017. 1 This is being accomplished through a number of measures, including the removal of the provincial portion of HST from […]
Author: Adam White1 Newspaper editors and industry pundits have panned energy policy decisions of the Government of Ontario.2 They argue that weaknesses and structural failures, with respect to who should do what, lie at the root of what went wrong […]
The National Energy Board (NEB) has been regulating interprovincial and international hydrocarbon pipelines and international power lines for almost 60 years. Its enabling legislation, the National Energy Board Act (NEB Act)1 instructs it to satisfy itself that, before approving facilities, […]
The Canadian federal government has spent the last 18 months considering environmental assessment (EA) reform. The Government has stated the goals of this reform as regaining public trust, protecting the environment, advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and ensuring “good projects […]
1. Introduction This article provides a summary of and preliminary comments on the Report of the Expert Panel on the Modernization of the National Energy Board1 (NEB Expert Panel Report) which was released in May 2017.2 This report is one […]
The saga of the Keystone XL project’s tortuous journey through the U.S. public review process is by now well known. Despite repeated findings by the U.S. Department of State’s assessments that the project would result in “no substantive change in […]
Background The recent Ontario Energy Board (OEB) decision regarding displaying the cost of ‘cap and trade’ on customers’ bills has ruffled a few feathers.1 In a decision relating to how bills that contain the new ‘cap and trade’ charges should […]