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Harrison, QC, Elizabeth J. Farris, Vaughan,
Wills & Murphy LLP (604) 661-9367 eharrison@farris.com
Mrs. Harrison has extensive experience in corporate, M&A and securities
transactions in multiple industries, including energy. She represents
corporations and investment dealers. Her experience includes M&A, take-
overs and related-party transactions, and public and private financings.
Harricks, Paul H. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7296 paul.harricks@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Harricks leads Gowling WLG's National Energy, Infrastructure & Mining
Group. His transactions-based practice embraces infrastructure, power
generation (all types), power transmission and distribution, and project
finance. He acts for Canadian and international corporations, funds,
governments and financial institutions.
Harbell, James W. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5690 jharbell@stikeman.com
Mr. Harbell is a partner in the Toronto office and is co-chair of the firm's
Energy Group. He is the current head of the National Project Development
& Finance Group. His practice focuses on energy, infrastructure and real
estate, M&A transactions, development, procurement and project finance
for electricity, gas and government entities.
Grosse, April D. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-4442 grossea@bennettjones.com
Ms. Grosse practises commercial litigation and arbitration, advising clients
on a broad range of disputes. She is regularly involved in disputes relating
to energy and natural resources, contractual disputes in all contexts and
contaminated site litigation. She also acts on disputes involving wills
and estates, and on matters relating to policing and police discipline.
Gropper, QC, Mitchell H. Farris, Vaughan,
Wills & Murphy LLP (604) 661-9322 mgropper@farris.com
Mr. Gropper's practice focuses on corporate finance, reorganizations, M&A
and commercial real estate. He has advised boards of directors on take-over
bids, going-private transactions and other corporate matters.
Griffiths, Leonard J. Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-7473 griffithsl@bennettjones.com
Mr. Griffiths is part of the Environmental/Energy/Government Relations/
First Nations team that assists clients with a wide variety of energy,
industrial, mining and transportation projects, including obtaining approvals,
completing environmental assessments and conducting M&A/financing
transactions and risk management.
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is ill-defined, which makes it tough for companies to
know whether or not they have it. at didn't stop the
province's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
from adopting a green paper earlier this year that, while
still a working document, suggests Québec legislation
may be amended to incorporate the notion of social
licence. "For me," says Drost, "I find this a very ambigu-
ous and potentially problematic concept."
One thing that was never ambiguous was the Liberal
government's strong commitment to the environment.
And since last fall's election, it has wasted little time on
fulfilling its pledges. In the oil patch, especially, many
businesspeople and corporate lawyers are on edge, say-
ing more difficulties are being layered on to an already
troublesome process.
e government, for example, is looking at amending
the Energy Act and, in the interim, have imposed new
obligations on projects to do more to engage the public,
Aboriginal groups and other stakeholders. Natural Re-
sources Minister Jim Carr and Minister of Environment
and Climate Change Catherine McKenna announced
earlier this year that projects such as Kinder Morgan's
Trans Mountain and TransCanada's Energy East pipe-
