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. [...] It does so by moving through the three key stages in the current process — the disposition of rights to develop oil sands; the disposition of rights to access the surface of public land; and the oil sands project review and approval stage. [...] Part 3.0 of the paper reviews the three main stages in the current legislative and regulatory framework for oil sands development — the mineral rights disposition stage; the surface rights disposition stage (both with respect to oil sands exploration and oil sands production activities); and the project review and approval stage. [...] Its focus is on provincial laws and regulations applicable to three key stages in the current development process — the disposition of rights to develop oil sands; the disposition of rights to access the surface of public land; and the oil sands project review and approval stage. [...] Part 3.0 of the paper considers the three main stages in the current legislative and regulatory framework — the mineral rights disposition stage, the surface rights disposition stage (both with respect to oil sands exploration and production activities), and the project review and approval stage.