The election of the Alberta New Democratic Party with a majority government in May of 2015 heralded the introduction of wide-ranging reforms to the Alberta electricity market. Electricity in Alberta has responsibility, in a largely fossil fuel system, for a […]
Few innovations have been more transformative than the production and distribution of electricity in the latter years of the nineteenth century. Overnight, cities and towns in the United States and Canada were lifted out of the dirty and dark age […]
This slim book (212 pages), which is packed with lots of energy information in addition to discussing everything you wanted to know about batteries, is the product of the Smart Grid Project at the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy […]
The challenges that continue to confront Canadian energy regulation are multi-dimensional and complex. It is convenient, however, to address these challenges under three general, interrelated headings: public acceptance (or “social licence”); aboriginal consultation; and climate change. Articles in this issue […]
Introduction: Canada’s Energy Future Many factors will determine Canada’s energy future over the next few decades. Carbon pricing and climate commitments; the constantly shifting state of international energy markets; potentially radical technological advances from electric power to vehicles to hydrocarbon […]
1. Introduction The July 2017 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in two duty to consult cases involving the National Energy Board, Chippewas of the Thames and Hamlet of Clyde River,1 marked in some ways a restatement of a […]