Updates to Alberta’s Geothermal Resource Regulatory System Alberta’s system for regulating geothermal resources is relatively new and continues to be augmented. This summer, the Alberta Energy Regulator (the AER) finalized Directive...
The Geothermal Resource Development Act, along with the Geothermal Resource Development Regulation and Geothermal Resource Tenure Regulation, is now in force In December of 2021, we published a brief examining Liability...
Still simmering… Alberta’s geothermal resources development regulatory scheme At the end of 2020, the Geothermal Resources Development Act (GRDA) was passed although it has not yet been proclaimed into force. The...
Policy Tools to Support Geothermal Resource Development Geothermal energy - that is, the heat energy generated and stored in the earth – has great potential as a relatively clean energy source....
Managing oil and gas liability in Alberta: Changes are being made (kind of) In July 2020, the Government of Alberta announced a new Liability Management Framework (LMF) which briefly sketched out...
Action on Climate Needed Now! The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development releases his Fall 2021 Report Since 1995, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has a mandate related to...
Geothermal Resource Development in Alberta: The ELC’s comments on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s proposed directive At the end of last year, the provincial government passed The Geothermal Resource Development Act (GRDA) which...
Coal Policy Engagement: Submissions to the Coal Policy Committee The Environmental Law Centre made submissions to the Coal Policy Committee on April 19, 2021, participated in a consultation session on June...
Coal, Climate & Cutthroat Trout: Some updates on coal in Alberta Just over a year ago, the Government of Alberta rescinded the longstanding A Coal Development Policy for Alberta (Coal Policy). See ...
The Inquiry Into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns: What’s Next? In July 2019, shortly after the provincial election, the Kenney government set up the Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns [the “Inquiry”]. Not...
ELC's Written Submission on the Coal Policy The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) is Alberta’s oldest public interest environmental law organization and believes that law is a powerful tool to protect the...
I Read the Carbon Tax Decision So You Don’t Have To: A Detailed Summary of the Main Issues On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its judgment in...