Adopting a Single Provincial Regulator for Electricity Generation Projects in Alberta /

The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and the President of the University of Calgary. [...] The issue that is relevant to this paper is the court’s discussion about the standard of review that ought to be applied to the decision of the administrative tribunal that was tasked with the responsibility of reviewing the circumstances of Dunsmuir’s termination. [...] The administrative tribunal is positioned to affect the rights of the parties, whether that party is the proponent who has expended a tremendous amount of money prior to arriving at the doorstep of the regulator, or the intervener whose personal rights may be directly and adversely affected by the development, or the rate payers who will be required to support the cost of a utility development fro [...] However, the impact of the reunification of the fossil fuel resources regulator left utility regulation and power generation developments behind and still responding to the demands and potentially differing standards of regulation of the remnants of the ERCB, from 2008 to 2013, and the newly minted AUC. [...] Since the AUC was, and is, bound by a public interest test that includes the consideration of the impact of the project on the environment, the jurisdiction under EPEA to consider the environmental impacts of the project is fully duplicated.