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Morency, Claude Dentons Canada LLP
(514) 878-8870 claude.morency@dentons.com
Mr. Morency is managing partner of the Firm's Montréal office and a member
of its Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. His practice focuses on corpo-
rate, commercial and construction litigation.
Mongeau, Éric Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3043 emongeau@stikeman.com
Mr. Mongeau's practice of general commercial litigation focuses, amongst
others, on the energy sector. Recent mandates include: Churchill Falls Hydro
power plant in a motion to obtain a judgment on the interpretation of the
renewal terms of a long-term PPA and representing IPPs in arbitration pro-
ceedings in connection to the renewal conditions of their long-term PPAs
with a public utility.
Mondrow, Ian A. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-4670 ian.mondrow@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Mondrow practises in the area of natural gas and electricity
regulation and policy. He represents utilities, customers and energy
services providers in rate, policy, facilities, licensing and compliance matters,
in both wholesale and retail energy markets. He has represented clients
before the Ontario Energy Board, the National Energy Board, and other
Canadian regulatory forums.
Mohamed, Munaf Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-4456 mohamedm@bennettjones.com
Mr. Mohamed maintains a national litigation practice and regularly appears
as counsel across the country. He has extensive experience in civil fraud,
international asset recovery claims, energy related disputes and bank related
litigation. In the energy arena, he has prosecuted and defended numerous
disputes involving exploration, production, gathering, processing, pipelines
and pricing.
Moch, Darcy D. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3390 mochd@bennettjones.com
Mr. Moch's tax practice focuses on corporate mergers & acquisitions, reorga-
nizations and financings, as well as personal, succession and foreign matters.
He is the past-chair of the National Tax Section of the CBA and the past
co-chair of the Joint Committee.
Mix, Martin Gowling WLG
(403) 298-1853 martin.mix@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Mix focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate finance and M&A
deals, as well as private equity transactions. He acts for public and private
issuers and underwriters on transactional matters, including public and
private debt and equity offerings, reorganizations and recapitalizations.
He advises on corporate governance and securities regulatory compliance
matters to various issuers.
on, came on board late last February. It agreed
to set a flat carbon emissions tax of $25 a tonne,
which exceeds the federal government's require-
ment for the first two years. Aer that, however,
Manitoba said it saw no need to raise the price
higher, meaning the province would not reach
the federal government's $50 a tonne threshold
for 2020.
British Columbia opted for an explicit price-
based system, such as a carbon tax. "e main
thing clients here want help with," Lee-Ander-
sen says, "is compliance. But there is a whole
slew of other issues. For example, we recently
assisted a client with assessing the potential
impacts of the proposed federal output-based
pricing system on their facilities, which are lo-
cated in multiple provinces, some of which will
likely be backstop jurisdictions."
Alberta — which is responsible for approxi-
mately one-third of Canada's total GHG emis-
sions — chose to impose a carbon levy and per-
formance-based emissions system. is did not
mark, however, Alberta's first foray into combat-
ting GHGs.
"Alberta is the leader [in Canada] in terms of
climate change legislation, policy development
and implementing legislation," says Tom McIn-
erney, a partner in the Calgary office of Bennett
Jones LLP and co-head of its Climate Change &
Emissions Trading team. "Alberta was the very
first jurisdiction, before the federal government,
that came out with binding climate change legis-
lation … in 2007."
Ontario, under then Premier Kathleen Wyn-
ne, and Québec both opted for a cap and trade
approach, under which their governments set
a cap on the amount of emissions allowed and
permit companies that exceed the limits to pur-
chase allowances, through auctions, from those
that did not. In 2017, the two provinces signed
a linking agreement with California, as part of
the US Western Climate Initiative, to use carbon
allowances issued by any of their governments,
interchangeably, and to hold joint carbon auc-
tions. In a notice to market participants in mid-
June, California and Québec said the Western
Climate Initiative would no longer allow trades
between companies registered in their jurisdic-
tions and those registered in Ontario.
"Our goals are to make certain that the pro-
gram continues to reduce emissions of climate-
changing gases as a crucial part of our efforts to
combat the existential threat of climate change,
while also continuing the smooth operation and
integrity of our common carbon market," the no-
tice said.
e closing of the California and Québec mar-
kets to Ontario prevented companies from ac-
cessing some $2.8 billion in emissions allowances
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