Canada Regulatory Overhaul Fast-Tracks NatGas, LNG, Pipe Projects

摘要

An efficiency overhaul of Canada’s energy and environment regulatory apparatus, by legislation currently before Parliament in Ottawa, is coming just in time for the country’s chief oil, gas and power watchdog. “In the coming year we expect to see a record number of applications,” National Energy Board (NEB) Chairman Gaetan Caron says in a 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities, presented to the House of Commons as part of its annual budget debate. The “unprecedented increase in industry applications” is currently expected to include 27 major projects in fields from exploration on federally controlled territory to pipelines and power transmission.