Blog

2017

• Energy is coming back home again: challenge for regulators and legislators

  Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2017

  Author: Karen Farbridge

  

  President, Karen Farbridge & Associates Ltd.
  Former Mayor of Guelph

  Energy regulators and legislators are under increasing pressure to respond to a rapidly changing energy sector. 

  There is a global energy transformation underway which is changing the energy sector into a cleaner, smarter, distributed and mobile energy ecosystem. At the same time, research out of the International Energy Association notes that successful urban energy planning is only possible, if energy planning is integrated in the entire urban planning process.

• The Relationship between Policymakers, Regulators and the Decision-Making Process in the Energy Sector

  Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2017

  Author: Louis Légault

  

  Director of legal services
  Régie de l'énergie du Québec

  It is imperative for regulators to operate in a manner that is free from political interference. For example, good practices, or "best practices," recommended by the OECD in its guidelines, help to prevent such intrusions, but are sometimes in opposition to the will of legislators who might, on occasion, want to postpone the implementation of clear policies or could attempt to intervene in the regulatory process.

• Toward Inclusive Prosperity in Canada: Powering Indigenous Agency and Industry

  Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2017

  Author: Kim Scott

  

  Senior Associate, NVision Insight Group
  Principal, Kishk Anaquot Health Research

  Indigenous worldviews have more contemporary relevance than ever before.  If we need proof that humans are of the land, look only to the weave of watersheds through the muscles of the land from thirty thousand feet, the veins of a leaf, and then your own blood vessels or neural networks.

• Energy Development Down Under

  Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  Author: Andrew Pickford

  

  Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
  Director, Indo-Pacific Energy Security Program, Perth USAsia Centre

  The Canadian experience of major energy projects points to a “democratic risk factor” now considered for new ventures. The cancellation of Pacific NorthWest LNG confirmed that LNG investors are not willing to put money into jurisdictions which will change energy policy after a single election. Is this a universal feature of the modern democracy? Can Canada learn anything from Australia; a nation which shares many common features with Canada, especially as a fellow energy exporter?