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In a surprising move Industry Minister Christian Paradis announced on Friday that Petronas' $5.9 billion takeover bid for Progress Energy had been rejected under the Investment Canada Act.

On June 7, 2016, the Quebec Government introduced before the National Assembly Bill 106, An Act to implement the 2030 Energy Policy and to amend various legislative provisions.

The Québec government published a draft regulation under An Act Respecting the Régie de l'énergie setting out a framework for the procurement of an initial 450-MW block of wind power of the previously announced 800 MW of wind power to be procured.

On October 28, 2009, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of Friends of the Earth (FOTE), an environmental non-profit organization, which alleged that the federal government had not fulfilled its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA).

This has been a significant year for the practice of energy law in Canada given challenging market conditions, along with changes in government

On November 28, 2005, the Alberta Department of Energy (DOE) circulated a document to Alberta stakeholders entitled Role and Mandate Refinements for Alberta Electric Industry Implementing Agencies (the Paper).

Such an experiment is underway in the State of New York where, earlier this year, the New York Public Service Commission began proceedings to fundamentally reconsider the regulation of electricity utilities in the State.

On August 3, 2023 the Alberta Utilities Commission ("AUC"), the regulatory body responsible for approving power projects in Alberta, announced a pause on all approvals of power plants...

Robert Warren, a partner at WeirFoulds with a practice dedicated to public law advocacy, specializing in energy and environmental law...

On September 4, Colleen Young, Saskatchewan's Minister of Energy and Resources, toured two key facilities in Saskatchewan's energy landscape...

SaskPower has created a nuclear subsidiary called SaskNuclear to advance the province's small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project from a business and regulatory standpoint.

In Smith v. Alliance Pipeline Ltd., the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a Pipeline Arbitration Committee (Committee)'s award of costs for the proceedings before it, as well as the costs incurred by a landowner in prior arbitration proceedings and a related Alberta Court of Queen's Bench action.

Canada is positioned to be a global leader in the development of nuclear energy as a cost-effective, non-carbon emitting energy source on the road to net zero emissions.

In our October 2005 Energy Law Update we advised you that the Federal government had allocated $97 million over five years, and a total of $886 million over fifteen years, to stimulate the development of renewable energy, such as small hydro, wind, biomass and landfill gas.

This would be achieved through the IESO's proposed Market Renewal Project.

On January 16, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) dismissed an appeal from the Government of British Columbia (B.C.) that sought to confirm that B.C. has jurisdiction to regulate the shipment of "heavy oil" through the province.

Two recent cases have highlighted a serious weakness in the governance of the electricity sector in Ontario. The cases illustrate not just the immediate adverse effects of Government ...