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Johnson, Gregory M. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-4470 johnson@bennettjones.com
Acting for clients in the energy industry, Mr. Johnson's practice focuses on
corporate tax, corporate reorganizations, mergers & acquisitions and private
equity. He is also a chartered accountant who practised with an international
accounting firm before joining Bennett Jones.
Jenkins, William K. Dentons Canada LLP
(403) 268-6835 bill.jenkins@dentons.com
Mr. Jenkins' practice includes M&A transactions, project financings, joint
ventures, IPOs, public debt offerings, syndicated financings and corporate
governance. He co-heads the M&A practice of Dentons in Canada.
Ignasiak, Martin Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7007 mignasiak@osler.com
Mr. Ignasiak appears in courts and tribunals in his regulatory, environmental
and Aboriginal law practice. He is the Co-Chair of Osler's national Regulatory,
Environmental, Aboriginal and Land Group. He advises on oilsands, electric
generation and transmission, and mining facilities approvals. He also advises
on Aboriginal issues and impact benefit agreements.
Hurst, Michael A. Dentons Canada LLP
(403) 268-3046 michael.hurst@dentons.com
Mr. Hurst's energy law expertise embraces oil & gas upstream, midstream
and pipeline acquisitions; structuring greenfield projects; financing; and
product sales arrangements. He works on infrastructure projects in Canada
and South America.
Hurley, John Gowling WLG
(514) 392-9431 john.hurley@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Hurley has more than 30 years' experience in public and business law,
with special emphasis on First Nations, government relations, energy and
infrastructure, environmental law, regulatory matters and international
development. He has assisted commercial clients with the development
and execution of energy generation projects (wind, hydroelectric, biomass,
cogeneration and thermal).
Hunter, QC, Clarke Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(403) 267-8292 clarke.hunter@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Hunter has practised litigation and dispute resolution since 1980, after
a clerkship with Chief Justice Laskin at the SCC. He has represented clients
in domestic and international arbitration and mediation, in the Courts of
Alberta, two other provinces, the Federal Court, the Tax Court and the SCC.
He has acted on a broad range of subjects, but with considerable focus
on the energy industry.
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Among the highlights of Bill C-69, An Act to
enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian
Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation
Protection Act and to make consequential amend-
ments to other Acts, would be the creation of the
Impact Assessment Act (IAA) and the Canadian
Regulator Act (CER). e Bill would replace the
National Energy Board (NEB), which was estab-
lished in 1959 and was located in Calgary, with
the CER, to be located in Ottawa. e NEB of
late had come under considerable criticism for its
handling of issues such as public participation in
the Trans Canada pipeline expansion project.
e proposed legislation followed 14 months
of extensive consultations with interested parties
on all sides of the oen heatedly debated issues
involving major oil and gas projects, especially
pipelines. As is oen the norm when faced with
controversial initiatives, the government likely
hoped the new Bill would be a compromise solu-
tion that all key players could live with.
For some lawyers working in the Oil & Gas
sector, to whom the need for certainty is their cli-
ents' consistent mantra, that goal does not seem
to have been accomplished.
"ese are not what I would call changes that
are going to address regulatory certainty and
the process uncertainty that industry has raised
concerns about, in my view," says Gord Nettle-
ton, co-head of the National Environmental,
Regulatory & Aboriginal Group at McCarthy
Tétrault LLP. "What I see more than anything
is a rearrangement or a shuffling of the par-
ticular sections of the existing legislation as
"There's an additional
amount of work planned
for the front-end of
a project and that
additional work isn't
captured by any of the
legislative timelines."
- MATTHEW KEEN,
NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT CANADA LLP
