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Case commented on: Chevron Canada Limited Priority Destination Designation Application (15 July 2013) MH-002-2012 (NEB).

Most shippers on the Trans Mountain Pipeline will no doubt be pleased with the recent decision of the National Energy Board (NEB) denying a Priority Destination Designation for Chevron’s Burnaby Refinery. Chevron applied for an order designating Chevron’s Burnaby Refinery as a Priority Destination pursuant to section 1.58 of the Tariff of Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC. The Burnaby Refinery serves a key function as it refines Alberta crude oil into gasoline for the Lower Mainland of BC.

Obama Climate Change Speech Sets New Standard for Keystone Pipeline Debate

By James Coleman

On July 15, 2013

In Climate Change, Environmental, Oil & Gas

By: James Coleman

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Speech Commented On: Remarks by President Obama on Climate Change, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/25/remarks-president-climate-change

On June 25, President Obama unveiled a Climate Action Plan in a speech at Georgetown University (see here). This plan highlighted upcoming U.S. greenhouse gas standards for fossil-fuel power plants, directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new proposals for both new and existing power plants. But the speech is making the most news for an unexpected reference to the Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to transport oil sands bitumen from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska.

Summary Judgement Ordered In Outstanding Coal Bed Methane Cases

By Nigel Bankes

On June 28, 2013

In Oil & Gas, Property

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Case commented on: Encana Corporation v ARC Resources Ltd, 2013 ABQB 352.

Previous decisions of the Court of Queen’s Bench and the Court of Appeal (Encana Corporation v ARC Resources Ltd, 2011 ABQB 431, aff’d 2012 ABCA 271) gave summary judgement on many of the coalbed methane (CBM) cases that had been filed in the Alberta courts. Summary judgement was granted in these cases on the basis of an amendment to the Mines and Minerals Act, RSA 2000, c M-17 (now s10.1) adopted in 2010 which declared CBM “to be and at all times to have been natural gas”. See post here.

Competition Law and the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

By Nigel Bankes

On June 26, 2013

In Competition, Oil & Gas

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Decision commented on: 321665 Alberta Ltd. v Husky Oil Operations Ltd, 2013 ABCA 221.

I suspect that there will be sighs of relief in the board rooms of downtown Calgary (or at least so soon as the occupants of those office towers are able to think about something other than the consequences of the current disastrous flooding) as a result of this decision in which the Alberta Court of Appeal unanimously allowed an appeal on a civil action based on sections 36 and 45 of the federal Competition Act, RSC 1985, c C-34 (as they stood at the relevant time) which had been successful at trial.

The Role of the “Noble Savage” in Environmental Social Activism

By Kathleen Mahoney

On May 13, 2013

In Aboriginal, Environmental, Oil & Gas

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Context of discussion: Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project

This blog is to discuss what I call the “The Role of the Noble Savage” in the pursuit of environmental justice through social activism. I will use the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project to provide context.

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Burnaby Refinery not a Priority Destination under Pipeline Tariff

Obama Climate Change Speech Sets New Standard for Keystone Pipeline Debate

Summary Judgement Ordered In Outstanding Coal Bed Methane Cases

Competition Law and the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

The Role of the “Noble Savage” in Environmental Social Activism