Power Switch : Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

Table of Contents

• Contents 8
• Preface 12
• Abbreviations 14
• Introduction 20
• Key Themes 21
• The Energy Policy and Political Context: The U.S. Bush Energy Plan and Federal Liberal Energy Policy 25
• Energy Regulatory Governance: The Nature of Energy Regulation, Regulatory Regimes, and Regulatory Institutions 29
• Structure and Organization 32
• PART 1: HISTORY, FRAMEWORK, AND GLOBAL CONTEXT 36
• 1 Canadian Energy Policy and Regulation in Historical Context 38
• The Five Imperatives 39
• Key Historical Periods 43
• Conclusions 55
• 2 Analysing the Power Switch: Factors and Framework 57
• Key Factors for Change: A Closer Look 57
• Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Interacting Regimes and the Regulation of Energy As an Essential Service Networked Industry 76
• Conclusions 86
• 3 U.S. Influences: FERC and Alternative Energy Regulatory Models 88
• FERC Policy and Regulatory Developments 88
• Impact on Canada 101
• Conclusions 107
• PART 2: ENERGY REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS AND INTER-REGIME CHANGE 110
• 4 The National Energy Board 112
• Origins of the NEB 114
• The NEB Mandate and Key Changes since 1985 117
• The NEB As Incentive Regulator: Negotiated Pipeline-Toll Incentive Settlements and Export Review Processes 121
• The NEB As Joint Environmental and Safety Regulator 125
• Conclusions 129
• 5 The Ontario Energy Board 131
• The OEB and the New Competitive Ontario Regime 132
• The 1998 Mandate Change and the New OEB 135
• The OEB As Incentive Regulator 138
• The OEB and Horizontal Environmental Regulation 144
• Conclusions 148
• 6 The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board 151
• Mandate and Key Changes during the Last Decade 152
• Leadership, Representation, and Core Culture 158
• Incentive Regulation: Negotiated Settlement Processes 162
• Inter-regime Influences: Environmental Regulation 164
• Conclusions 168
• 7 Energy and Competition Regulation: Towards Workable Competition 170
• Competition and the Regulation of Competition 171
• The Competition Bureau and Industry Sectoral Regulators 173
• Joint Competition Regulation in Energy 176
• Inter-regime Accountability: The California Crisis and Transitional Imperatives 184
• Conclusions 190
• 8 Energy and Environmental Regulation: Regulatory 'Stacking' in the Climate Change Era 191
• Traditional 'End of Pipe' Environmental Regulation 193
• Sustainable Development and the New NRCan–Environment Canada Regulatory Relationship 195
• Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and Global Regulation 203
• Environment-Energy Regulatory Stacking: Command and Control and Incentive Regulation 211
• Conclusions 213
• Conclusions 216
• Key Themes 218
• The Bush Energy Agenda and the Chrétien Liberals' Response 224
• References 230
• Index 250
• A 250
• B 251
• C 251
• D 252
• E 252
• F 253
• G 253
• H 253
• I 253
• J 254
• K 254
• L 254
• M 254
• N 254
• O 255
• P 255
• Q 256
• R 256
• S 256
• T 256
• U 256
• V 257
• W 257