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Brant, Cherie Dickinson Wright LLP
(416) 646-3845 cbrant@dickinsonwright.com
Ms. Brant has an Aboriginal law practice with a focus on commercial real
estate, energy development and economic development for First Nations.
She provides strategic counsel to First Nations seeking to fulfill their business
development objectives. She also provides counsel to industry clients seeking
to develop projects with First Nations.
Branchaud, René Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P.
(514) 877-3040 rbranchaud@lavery.ca
Mr. Branchaud, partner and chairman of the Board of Directors at Lavery, has
extensive experience in the field of mining law through his involvement with
several mining companies. He has thorough knowledge of natural resources
law, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and securities law. Over the
years, he has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of natural
resources law.
Borduas, Robert G. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4524 robert.borduas@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Borduas is a Canadian practice leader in project finance. He has repre-
sented lenders and borrowers in several large energy projects including wind
farms and gas storage facilities.
Borden, Richard P. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(403) 267-8362 rick.borden@nortonrosefulbright.com
Practising extensively in the area of complex commercial transactions,
Mr. Borden focuses on large-scale projects and financings in the energy
sector, including oil sands projects, pipeline projects and LNG projects.
His clients include major Canadian banks and project sponsors and he has
strong relationships with the key project lending specialists at the major
Canadian banks.
Booth, QC, Robert (Bob) T. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3252 boothb@bennettjones.com
Mr. Booth has a broad commercial practice in energy and resources.
He represents clients in the oil & gas, pipeline, LNG, uranium and electricity
sectors. He advises on purchases, sales, new businesses, joint ventures
and partnerships.
Bobechko, Janet L. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(416) 216-1886 janet.bobechko@nortonrosefulbright.com
Ms. Bobechko (Certified Specialist in Environmental Law) routinely provides
advice on environmental compliance, impact assessments, contaminated
sites, environmental management systems, spills and emergencies, business
transaction, acquisitions and financings. She advises on renewable energy
projects for solar and cogeneration, as well as environmental social gover-
nance and climate risk issues.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
Ontario's Liberal government, says Vegh, failed
to follow the regulatory review process it set up
to attract and contract with private companies to
replace belching coal-fed electricity. In a scandal
that forced the resignation of Premier Dalton
McGuinty, the government compensated compa-
nies to the tune of $1.1 billion for the politically
motivated cancellation of the planned construc-
tion of two natural gas plants.
en there were Ontario's unique regulations
around pricing electricity from those new sourc-
es. In 2006, the government offered generous
feed-in tariffs — the guaranteed prices per kilo-
watt hour of electricity provincially owned utili-
ties would pay developers who built gas, wind and
solar-powered generation facilities.
ose feed-in-tariffs, guaranteed by 20-year
contracts, did just what they were intended to do
— spur private-sector investment, development
and modernization of Ontario's aging electri-
cal grid by reducing the risk of investment. For
instance, the owners of solar-powered electrical
generation facilities, which are more costly to
build, were paid more per kilowatt hour than
wind-powered developers.
And they were paid more than natural gas-
powered electricity generators. It was a managed
and subsidized competition by the province.
Since Ontario began to partially privatize its
system in 2003, electricity bills for consumers have
doubled. All in all, a scathing report by Ontario's
Auditor General about the Liberal government's
mishandling of the electrical systems' overhaul
revealed it cost taxpayers $9.2 billion more than
it should have. e fiasco angered Ontarians so
much that the June 7 election of Doug Ford's Pro-
gressive Conservatives in a landslide victory that
decimated former Premier Kathleen Wynne's
Liberal Party can partly be attributed to Ontario's
electricity regulations and policies.
Meantime, Alberta took a different approach
to modernizing its electrical grid. As of 2017,
it has been subjecting all its new electrical-gen-
eration needs and coal-plant replacement to a
competitive and more strictly reviewed bidding
process under the Renewable Electricity Program
"Increasingly, policymakers are looking
at smaller-scale distributed energy
resources. They are closer to where the
energy is going to be used. They are more
modular; they can come in with smaller
increments, so you don't have to build
a huge nuclear or hydro plant ..."
- IAN MONDROW, GOWLING WLG
