The provincial energy strategy--an integrated approach

The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, the President of the University of Calgary, the Benchers of the Law Society of Alberta, the President of the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, and the Dean of Law at The University of Alberta. [...] In this paper, the author provides an assessment of the respective roles of the ERCB and the AUC as defined by current legislation as well as an assessment of the roles of the boards in the context of the Provincial Energy Strategy. [...] Clean energy production, wise energy use and sustained economic prosperity are identified as the strategic outcomes to be achieved through the implementation of the Energy Strategy.5 Energy production and energy use fall directly, in the case of the former, or indirectly, in the case of the latter, within the purview of the ERCB and the AUC. [...] This paper picks up from where an earlier paper left off.8 It provides an assessment of the respective roles of the ERCB and the AUC as defined by current legislation, an assessment of the roles of the ERCB and the AUC in the context of the Energy Strategy and suggestions for how the two-board model for energy regulation in Alberta can be utilized to implement the Energy Strategy.9 To that end, th [...] Absent amendments made to legislation governing or administered by the ERCB and or the AUC and rooted in the Energy Strategy, the Energy Strategy cannot, in and of itself, affect how the ERCB and the AUC discharge their duties except to the extent that the ERCB and the AUC have regard to the Energy Strategy in considering the scope and details of the broad public interest in applications before th