Pipeline Rules News Today

A recent decision out of the Alberta Court of Appeal1 found that as soon as a company handed over their investigative reports to regulators in connection with a pipeline incident, privilege over the reports was lost.

CALGARY, AB, April 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has charged Aeraden Energy Corp. w...

A Calgary-based oil and gas company faces six charges from the Alberta Energy Regulator for violations over one of its pipelines near Jenner, Alta.

Redwater").   Redwater is now a sentinel decision for the energy industry in Alberta, confirming the importance of environmental, reclamation and remediation obligations and liabilities. In  Redwater, the SCC determined that a trustee in bankruptcy is not permitted to renounce uneconomical oil and gas assets and leave these assets to be remediated by the Orphan Well Association (" OWA") to avoid the environmental liabilities of the estate it is administering. Following the  Redwater decis...

Amendments to the Oil and Gas Conservation Rules and Pipeline Rules to advance the Government of Albertas new Liability Management Framework and address Albertas inventory of abandoned wells, facilities and pipelines came into effect on December 3, 2020.  As we noted in our April 2020 blog on Albertas approach to liability management, earlier amendments to the Oil and Gas Conservation Act and Pipeline Act received Royal Assent on April 2, 2020, and were  implemented in part to address grow...