Initiatives to address climate change continue to permeate developments in energy regulation, with significant implications for both regulators and the industries they regulate[…]

After many years of inconsistency in assessing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in federal environmental assessments, integration of climate change considerations is now explicitly required under the new Impact Assessment Act (IAA or the Act)[…]

The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to trim global economic growth by 3–6 per cent in 2020, result in levels of unemployment not experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and curtail global trade by 13–32 per cent[…]

Nearly two decades after Ontario deregulated “hydro” and introduced a competitive wholesale electricity market, Ontario’s electricity industry continues to grapple with how to efficiently and reliably ensure resource adequacy for electricity consumers[…]

From time to time the ERQ publishes reports that will be of interest to our readers. We often provide an independent review of those reports[…]

In December 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada in Vavilov significantly reshaped the law of judicial review of administrative actions[…]