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| The writer has been frequently blogging about the climate change initiatives which have been undertaken by President Obama since his inauguration in January. Since he took the Oath of Office, the [read more]Wednesday, 25 March 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| The Alberta Electric System Operator ("AESO") has filed an application with the Alberta Utilities Commission ("AUC") identifying a need for substantial transmission system reinforcement [read more]Wednesday, 25 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| On March 10, 2009, the Alberta Utilities Commission ("AUC") approved a facilities application by AltaLink Management Ltd. to build an approximately 100-km, 240-kilovolt (kV) transmission [read more]Wednesday, 25 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Beginning May 1, 2010, insurers operating in the U.S. with annual premiums of $500 million or more will be required to complete an annual Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey. The new regulation [read more]Tuesday, 24 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Ontario Legislature carried Bill 150, the Green Energy Act, at second reading on March 11 and ordered the bill referred to the Standing Committee on General Government. Check here for updates [read more]Tuesday, 24 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Obama Administration continues its almost weekly announcements in its crusade against climate change. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency sent the White House a proposed finding that [read more]Tuesday, 24 March 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| The Green Energy Act, and the related Feed-in Tariffs proposed last week, are helping to make Ontario a hot destination for big solar developers. As reported in the Toronto Star, several players have [read more]Thursday, 19 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| On March 18, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation announced the launch of a new Emerging Technologies Fund (the "Fund"). The Fund is intended to help emerging companies cross [read more]Thursday, 19 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The CD Howe Institute recently released "Going Green for Less: Cost-Effective Alternative Energy Sources", a comparative analysis of federal and provincial greenhouse gas ("GHG") [read more]Monday, 16 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a not-for-profit federal corporation which functions to promote the development of clean technologies in Canada. The SDTC operates two federal funds [read more]Thursday, 12 March 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| On March 12, the Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") unveiled its proposal for Feed-in Tariff ("FIT") pricing. The FIT is a key feature of the Ontario Green Energy Act, which is currently [read more]Thursday, 12 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Ontario government is beginning stakeholder consultations that will inform the regulations to be written under the Green Energy Act. The first series of workshops is intended to bring together [read more]Tuesday, 10 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Clean Energy Dialogue between Canada and the United States was sparked in February after the Prime Minister met with President Obama. The President's Climate Change advisor, Carole Browner, [read more]Tuesday, 10 March 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| On March 5, 2009, BC Hydro launched the second phase of its Bioenergy Call for Power. BC Hydro revealed that there will be two streams to the Phase 2 call:
"The first stream is a competitive [read more]Monday, 9 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| As reported in the March issue of Lawyers Weekly, patent filing is a booming area of practice for many Canadian firms. In particular, Davis LLP lawyer Ken Cancellara predicts that there will be a [read more]Monday, 9 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Our Environment Minister took a trip to Washington to meet with U.S. legislators and to promote the Clean Energy Dialogue this week.
On Monday Minister Prentice met with Senator John Kerry, who [read more]Wednesday, 4 March 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Passing climate-change legislation before December would be "an extremely tall order." This was Todd Stern's caution to international government officials gathered at a climate change [read more]Wednesday, 4 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| A new high-resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is now available on Google Earth. The new mapping layer was produced by Project Vulcan, a research initiative [read more]Wednesday, 4 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Canadian Council of the Ministers of the Environment's Extended Producer Responsibility Task Group (the "CCME Task Group") recently released a discussion paper regarding the design [read more]Wednesday, 4 March 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| As reported by Carbon Finance, Point Carbon, a leading provider of news and analysis about the carbon market, predicts that the value of the global market will shrink by a third in 2009. They expect [read more]Thursday, 26 February 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The Climate Change Law group has published two new bulletins:
1) A Clean Energy Dialogue - Prime Minister Harper and President Obama Pledge to Work Together
At their first official meeting [read more]Wednesday, 25 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall, Andrew Lord |
| The writer "attended" a live web-cast the other day organized by John Podesta, who is one of two members of President Obama's transition team. The forum, "Building the New Economy: [read more]Wednesday, 25 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Posted by Zoë Thoms and Andrew Lord
Bill 150, Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (the "Act") passed first reading Monday, February 23, 2009 in the Legislature of Ontario. [read more]Monday, 23 February 2009 |
| In the wake of the meeting between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama last week, Minister Prentice is playing his green card and going to Washington. The Environment Minister is one of five [read more]Sunday, 22 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Minister of Energy and Infrastructure George Smitherman addressed a crowd of 750 people this morning about the Green Energy Act (the "Act") that will be tabled on this coming Monday. He [read more]Friday, 20 February 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Wow! What is must have been like to have been in Ottawa today when Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Obama had their much anticipated meeting. How lucky those people happened to be in the [read more]Thursday, 19 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Effective February 12, 2009, the Ontario Energy Board ("OEB") amended its Distribution System Code ("DSC") to make it easier for small-scale generation projects to connect to the [read more]Thursday, 19 February 2009 | Andrew Lord |
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There has been a lot of buzz about Ontario's Green Energy Act in recent months. This week the buzz may become reality.
The "Green Energy Act" that most people have been [read more]Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Liberal Senator Grant Mitchell wants to encourage Canadians to invest in carbon offset credits. On January 27, 2009, he introduced Senate Bill s-213, which would provide a 15% tax credit to individuals [read more]Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Last week the writer blogged about the inefficiency of our bottom-up approach to the U.S. developments in energy, climate change and the economy. Looks like things are starting to improve somewhat [read more]Monday, 16 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| You'll recall the writer's update after the federal budget where I mentioned I would be closely watching the provinces' environmental and climate change initiatives. The new session of [read more]Tuesday, 10 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| A couple of days ago I blogged about the influence Todd Stern is having on American energy policies. I proposed that one of the next things President Obama may tackle would be the greening of building [read more]Monday, 9 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| The writer sits in awe of the speed of the top down policy on Climate Change developing in the U.S.. Meanwhile, back in Canada…
Britain was once described as a "nation of shop keepers"; [read more]Sunday, 8 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Last week I blogged about two major announcements in the U.S.related to Climate Change. I suggested that Todd Stern, the powerful U.S.Special Envoy for Climate Change holds all the cards on Climate [read more]Thursday, 5 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Davis LLP is pleased to announce the establishment of Regent Park Energy Inc., a joint venture between our client, Corix Utilities Inc., and Toronto Community Housing Corporation.
Regent Park [read more]Thursday, 5 February 2009 |
| The Conservative Government's 2009 Budget promises billiions of dollars in government spending to help the country ride out the global economic downturn. With the recent U.S. announcements about [read more]Wednesday, 4 February 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Todd Stern, the newly anointed Special Envoy for Climate Change, was former President Bill Clinton's senior representative at the U.N. climate change negotiations in Kyoto. He is, like President [read more]Wednesday, 28 January 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| On January 23, 2009, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure announced the results of the RES III call for power. OPA awarded six 20-year power purchase agreements to five different proponents. [read more]Tuesday, 27 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| President Obama made the first green moves of his new administration on Monday by directing the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA”) to reconsider California's request to set its [read more]Monday, 26 January 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| On January 20, 2009 the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment for Canada, gave a speech in Toronto to the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. The speech focussed on Canada's climate [read more]Monday, 26 January 2009 | Jennifer Cleall |
| Will the mountains of coal at Nanticoke Generating Station one day be replaced by mountains of switchgrass pellets? Ontario Power Generation is taking further steps to answer that question. OPG had [read more]Friday, 23 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Ontario plans to implement a cap-and-trade program as early as January 1, 2010. That is the somewhat noncommittal position taken by Ministry of the Environment as it begins a year-long public consultation [read more]Thursday, 22 January 2009 |
| The January 2009 issue of the Climate Change Law bulletin predicts the trajectory of U.S. federal cap and trade legislation under the Obama administration.
On January 20, 2009, the United States [read more]Friday, 16 January 2009 |
| The federal government continues to ramp up its efforts to negotiate a North American emissions trading scheme. Effective January 5, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed Bob Hamilton as a new [read more]Friday, 16 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Clean Power Call bidders and clean power supporters in BC will be relieved to learn that BC Hydro appears to have softened its position with respect to the lower acquisition target of 3,000 GWh per [read more]Wednesday, 14 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| Ontario's used 148 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2008, 2.3% less than in 2007, reports Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). The IESO attributes the drop to changing [read more]Monday, 12 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| 2008 was a record year for global cleantech venture investment. According to Cleantech Group, LLC, venture investment in clean technology in North America, Europe, China and India totalled $8.4 billion, [read more]Wednesday, 7 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| "Ontario is well positioned for the phase-out of coal-fired generation by the end of 2014," concluded the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) as part of its most recent Ontario [read more]Tuesday, 6 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| BC Hydro has asked the BC Utilities Commission ("BCUC") for an amended order slashing the target for the Clean Power Call from 5,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year to 3,000 GWh per year. [read more]Monday, 5 January 2009 | Andrew Lord |
| The federal offset program does not appear to be materializing as quickly as once anticipated. Protocol developers and policy analysts alike are still waiting for a key announcement, expected last [read more]Monday, 5 January 2009 |
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