Cases Considered: Sawyer v. Alberta (Energy and Utilities Board), 2007 ABCA 297
PDF Version: Standing Against Public Participation at the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
In September 2007, the Alberta Court of Appeal denied leave to appeal an AEUB (now the Energy Resources Conservation Board) decision that affirmed its longstanding position that participatory rights to contest the merits of an energy project by, for example, presenting evidence and/or cross-examining the project proponent, are not available to recreational users of public lands or urban environmentalists.