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GREEN: Ottawa provides glimmer of hope and streamlines review process for energy projects

While by no means a regulatory panacea — the Impact Assessment Act still gets in the way of getting things built in Canada — this is a promising bit of regulatory reform.

In what looks like a bit of timely and meaningful regulatory reform, the Carney government recently streamlined the regulatory approval process for a broad swath of energy-related projects and activities. The reform is pertinent to three high-profile energy issues in Canada today — the Pacific pipeline enshrined in last year’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Alberta and Ottawa, the prospective construction of additional electricity supply and transmission in service of Ottawa’s electrify everything strategy, and the large-scale data centre proposals sought by the federal government. So though it’s complicated, it’s worth understanding.

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