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Gorman, William (Bill) Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4118 wgorman@goodmans.ca
Mr. Gorman's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate
finance and M&A. He represents public/private companies and underwriters
in transactions involving the energy sector. He has represented Atlantic
Power in various matters including its 2004 IPO, numerous debt and equity
financings, a strategic review, two activist shareholder actions
and a secondary market liability class action.
Gilmour, Bradley S. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3382 gilmourb@bennettjones.com
Mr. Gilmour's practice focuses primarily on environmental, regulatory, energy
and Aboriginal law. He provides advice on due diligence, environmental
approvals, release and incident reporting, contaminated sites and
environmental investigations and prosecutions associated with a broad range
of energy, natural resource, chemical, petrochemical, hydro, bio-fuel, wind
and other industry types.
Gilliland, William G. Dentons Canada LLP
(403) 268-6826 bill.gilliland@dentons.com
Mr. Gilliland advises public and private companies domestically and
internationally on M&A matters, primarily in the power, oil and gas
and other resource sectors. He also counsels on financing, securities
and governance issues.
Ghikas, Matthew Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-3191 mghikas@fasken.com
Mr. Ghikas specializes in oil and gas, electricity and utilities. Licensed in
BC and Alberta, he represents clients before energy and environmental
regulators, in court and in arbitrations. He holds a MCIArb designation from
the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a QArb designation from the ADR
Institute of Canada. He is a roster arbitrator for the American Arbitration
Association (ICDR).
Gauvin, Mira Gowling WLG
(514) 392-9591 mira.gauvin@gowlingwlg.com
Ms. Gauvin advises clients on compliance with environmental laws, obtaining
and transferring environmental permits, land rehabilitation projects, as well
as the implementation and closure of industrial sites. She analyzes and
consults on the impacts of jurisprudential and legislative developments
on client activities, and on due diligence in the context of various types
of business transactions.
Gallivan, QC, Daniel F. Cox & Palmer
(902) 491-4126 dgallivan@coxandpalmer.com
Mr. Gallivan's corporate practice spans all facets of energy law. He provides
informed counsel and regulatory advice to major oil and gas projects,
exploration and production companies, service and pipeline companies,
regulatory agencies and governments. Consistently ranked as a leading
practitioner in his field, Mr. Gallivan also holds the leadership role of CEO
of Cox & Palmer.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
lion Northern Gateway pipeline was
filed in 2005. It got cabinet approval
in 2014. Normally, that would have
been the end of it, but eight First Na-
tions, four environmental groups and
a labour union launched legal chal-
lenges against the government ap-
proval. e BC Court of Appeal re-
voked the approval on the last day of
June. at's 11 years spent on process,
instead of building anything or mov-
ing any oil or gas to port for export.
While Canada is not alone in
this, it seems to be moving in a dif-
ferent direction from other major
jurisdictions. In the United States,
for example, the Federal Regulatory
Energy Commission is considering
a 12-month deadline for its "public
convenience and necessity" certifi-
cates for gas pipelines and electrical
transmission that use its pre-filing
system. e European Commission
has ordered that similar projects
that cross countries in the European
Union should take no longer than
3.5 years to receive all regulatory ap-
provals. In Canada, "I think the fed-
eral government is trying to figure out
how to move forward," says Richer La
Flèche. But even when the approval
finally comes through with scores of
conditions, energy companies still
can't be certain they can start to build.
Look at what happened with North-
ern Gateway.
So the No. 1 problem, he says, is that "we don't
have a regulatory path for very large interprovincial
projects that involves several governments. What
are executives supposed to do?"
One way for the private sector to mitigate the
risk is to run projects through sympathetic prov-
inces and communities. It's called social licence,
or social acceptability, and it's a concept first used
in the developing world where, faced with the lack
of strong regulation, first-world mining companies
oen went above what was required by law to en-
sure their project would meet the local commu-
nity's needs, helping to ensure buy-in.
e concept is no longer confined to the third
world. e whole notion is starting to dominate
the debate around not just pipelines but shale gas,
oil-sands projects and even wind farms, says Anne
Drost, an energy practitioner at Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP in Montréal. at means the deci-
sion over where to locate a pipeline, route transmis-
sion lines or build a wind farm can't be le to the
engineers or scientists anymore.
