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Harricks, Paul H. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7296 paul.harricks@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Harricks leads Gowling WLG's Energy Sector Group. His transactional
practice embraces all types of power generation, transmission and distribu-
tion and finance. He acts for Canadian and international corporations, funds,
governments and financial institutions. He is a director of the Association of
Power Producers of Ontario and Chair of the Energy Committee of the Toronto
Board of Trade.
Hamilton, Peter E. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5564 phamilton@stikeman.com
Mr. Hamilton is a partner in the Banking and Finance Group. He focuses on
corporate finance, project finance, regulation of financial institutions, deriva-
tives, structured finance and insolvency. He advises Canadian and interna-
tional corporations and banks, Canadian and foreign governments and public
bodies and associations on both transactional and regulatory matters.
Guichon Jr., QC, David A. Norton Rose Fulbright Can-
ada LLP (403) 267-9511 dave.guichon@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Guichon has practised Canadian and international energy and resources
law since 1981. He has provided legal services to Canadian, US and interna-
tional energy clients on a broad range of matters, including acquisitions and
dispositions, project development and financing, joint venture transactions,
corporate reorganizations, and oil & gas products transportation
and marketing.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
investors look at Alberta's new regime and see
some additional regulatory uncertainty in the
context of Canada's balkanized political system.
"I'm regularly asked about the regulatory regime
in Canada for carbon taxation, the framework.
e range of the uncertainty will depend, in many
respects, on political outcomes, at both the fed-
eral and the provincial levels."
In fact, Ontario has recently elected a new
government, a Progressive Conservative majority
government with a much different environment/
energy viewpoint than its Liberal predecessors,
and Alberta, as it stands, heads to the polls next
year. en there's the uncertainty over how the
federal government's Pan-Canadian Framework
on Clean Growth and Climate Change will play
out in terms of the provinces.
Davies' Powell says companies want a long
roadmap so they understand how they can effi-
ciently respond to regulatory change; hills and
valleys with respect to climate change, in her
opinion, have not benefited anyone in industry.
Yet on the whole Powell is optimistic that "if we
could just get the politicians to work together
on the national and provincial levels, industry 'is
ready to go ahead' and they absolutely – in par-
ticular in the oil and gas sector in Alberta – have
the required experience because of the complex-
ity of their CGER regime for the last decade."
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