The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
While questions related to policies, programs and energy projects have been common for many years, they remain and are perhaps more complicated than ever. It could be seen as a cliché to say that we are living during a historic turning point[…]
Public policy is all too often driven by a perceived need to respond urgently to a ‘crisis’ – to be seen to be doing ‘something’. Insufficient attention is sometimes paid to analyzing the real nature of the problem at hand, with the result that legislative and regulatory responses frequently overreach[…]
Canada faces serious challenges and crucial decisions when it comes to governing a twenty first century energy system. They are seen in ongoing controversy over siting of wind farms, pipelines, new hydro, and transmission lines; tensions between movement on climate change and other energy objectives like oil sands development, competitiveness and consumer affordability, fracking implementation, and the reform of the National Energy Board, to name but a few[…]
The authors of this article, James M. Coyne, Robert C. Yardley and Jessalyn Pryciak are consultants with Concentric Energy Advisors Inc. This article is based on a longer research report supported by the Canadian Gas Association and the Canadian Electricity Association[…]
On June 11, 2018, the Alberta Legislature passed Bill 13, An Act to Secure Alberta’s Electricity Future.2 Bill 13 amends several existing statutes and provides the necessary legal framework for the establishment of an electrical generation capacity market – which marks a significant change to Alberta’s power generation regime[…]
On June 20th 2018, Bill C-69 received its introduction and first reading in Canada’s Senate. Bill C-69 aims to enact the Impact Assessment Act (the “IAA”). The IAA repeals the current Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (the “CEAA”), and implements broad changes to the Canadian environmental assessment process. […]
In recent years the timeline to complete Canadian regulatory reviews of proposed major projects – and particularly environmental assessments which are the key part of the project review process – has become a major political issue. Over the last decade or so, project proponents have consistently raised concerns about the speed and unpredictability of project review processes –principally at the federal level[…]
