scholarly journals Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Plant Decommissioning and Rationalization Plans

1994 ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Richard A. Neufeld ◽  
Geoffrey S. Paskuski
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Gas Processing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regulatory Strategy ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Resources Conservation

The liability of owners and operators of sites contaminated by industrial activity is imposed at common law and by statute. Under the statutory regime prior to the new Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act ("AEPEA"), the scope of liability was generally limited to ongoing operations and arguably extended to the active remediation of the site. Further, past owners of industrial sites escaped liability for their pollution-causing activities. Under the AEPEA, more stringent provisions exist that govern the decommissioning process, including significantly increased penalties for non-compliance and the indirect imposition of liability upon past owners and non-operators for pollution-causing events that occurred in the past or during the decommissioning process. The authors recommend a regulatory strategy in regard to a program of site decommissioning associated with gas processing capacity. They point out that potential conflicts arise between the new Environmental Appeal Board ("EAB") and the Energy Resources Conservation Board ("ERCB") as to their respective roles in the rationalization plan approval process. In order to avoid the potential for duplication of public hearings before the EAB and ERCB, the authors recommend that processing capacity rationalization proponents consider submitting an omnibus application to the ERCB detailing all the activities required to implement the rationalization plan.

scholarly journals The Growth of Public Participation in Decisions of the Energy Resources Conservation Board

1994 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
P. A. Rowbotham
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
Crown Of The Continent ◽  
Development Applications

This paper addresses the issue of public participation in one of Alberta's most important administrative tribunals, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB). The ERCB makes significant decisions regarding the exploration for, and development of, natural resources in Alberta. In the past twenty-five years the public has taken an increasing interest in the types of issues which face the ERCB. The following essay discusses the legislative scheme which permits and encourages public participation in these decisions. It also addresses the increase in public participation, and focuses on two specific events: the Crown of the Continent Project in the Waterton Lakes area of Alberta and the Caroline/Beaverhill Lake Gas Development Applications.

scholarly journals Environmental Assessment in Alberta

1969 ◽  
pp. 286 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Elder
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
Assessment Requirements

Environmental impact assessment, as practiced in Alberta, includes considerable social impact assessment requirements. The author, while favouring a comprehensive assessment and project approval process, argues that the Minister of the Environment Jacks the legal authority to require project proponents to carry out socio-economic impact assessments. According to the author, the Energy Resources Conservation Board's power to require and consider social impact assessment in the approval process is also doubtful. Legislative clarification is desirable.

scholarly journals Declaratory Relief under Oil and Gas Legislation - Update

1981 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Robert M. Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resources Conservation

Decisions of the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board arising over the past year are reviewed, along with new legislation in British Co lumbia and related decisions of the B.C. Energy Commission.

Trends on Integrity Management Programs (IMP) and Management Systems (MS) Audit and Incident Findings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael G. Mora ◽  
Joe Paviglianiti ◽  
Richard Slocomb ◽  
Anne-Marie Bourassa Mota ◽  
Mohsin Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Key Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Resources Conservation

Over the past 12 years, as directed by federal and provincial regulations, Canadian pipeline companies have been formally developing and implementing Integrity Management Programs (IMPs). Since 1999, IMPs have been a requirement in the Canadian consensus industry standard CSA Z662. Furthermore, since the release of CSA Z662 Annex N in 2005, both the BC OGC and the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) (Canadian provincial regulators) have made CSA Z662 Annex N mandatory for their regulated companies. Annex N incorporates key management system (MS) elements such as a company’s policy and commitment, responsibilities, competency, planning, management of change, review and evaluation. This paper presents the findings of IMP audits conducted by the NEB and BC OGC regulators during the period of 2001–2011. This paper also includes the findings of NEB’s analysis of pipeline incidents that occurred between 2005 and 2009 and how these incident findings correlate to the audit findings. This paper is structured as follows: • Integrity management regulatory frameworks • IMP and MS elements and their interconnection • Audit findings from the NEB and the BC OGC • Incident findings from the NEB • Analysis of the audit findings and their correlation to incidents • Trends on IMP and MS audit and incident findings The paper provides a general understanding of the findings and their trends on pipeline integrity management and on incidents in terms of IMP/MS elements as described in Table 1. The results from this study may help stakeholders to determine strategies to increase the adequacy, implementation and effectiveness of pipeline integrity management. This paper does not include any company-specific information nor results and conclusions from any particular audit report or incident.

Disability and Work During the Industrial Revolution in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Blackie
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paid Employment

A common claim in disability studies is that industrialization has marginalized disabled people by limiting their access to paid employment. This claim is empirically weak and rests on simplified accounts of industrialization. Use of the British coal industry during the period 1780–1880 as a case study shows that reassessment of the effect of the Industrial Revolution is in order. The Industrial Revolution was not as detrimental to the lives of disabled people as has often been assumed. While utopian workplaces for disabled people hardly existed, industrial sites of work did accommodate quite a large number of workers with impairments. More attention therefore needs to be paid to neglected or marginalized features of industrial development in the theorization of disability. Drawing on historical research on disability in the industrial workplace will help scholars better understand the significance of industrialization to the lives of disabled people, both in the past and the present.

More Than Cheating: Deception, IRB Shopping, and the Normative Legitimacy of IRBs

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 990-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Spellecy ◽  
Thomas May
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Multicenter Trial ◽  
Federal Regulations ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Emergency Research ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Attention

Deception, cheating, and loopholes within the IRB approval process have received significant attention in the past several years. Surveys of clinical researchers indicate common deception ranging from omitting information to outright lying, and controversy surrounding the FDA's decision not to ban “IRB shopping” (the practice of submitting protocols to multiple IRBs until one is found that will approve the protocol) has raised legitimate concerns about the integrity of the IRB process. One author has described a multicenter trial as being withdrawn from consideration at one institution when rejection was imminent, in order to avoid informing other IRBs reviewing the protocol of the study's rejection (a requirement under the federal regulations for emergency research with an exception from informed consent). This practice and IRB shopping seem at odds with the spirit, if not the “letter,” of the regulations. While at first blush these practices seem to cast aspersions on the integrity of clinical researchers, the moral issues raised go deeper than the ethics of cheating.

scholarly journals Fermentative Succinate Production: An Emerging Technology to Replace the Traditional Petrochemical Processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Cao ◽  
Rubing Zhang ◽  
Chao Sun ◽  
Tao Cheng ◽  
Yuhua Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Cost ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Strain Improvement ◽  
Downstream Processing ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Petrochemical Process ◽  
Succinate Production ◽  
Fossil Energy ◽  
Renewable Biomass ◽  
The Past

Succinate is a valuable platform chemical for multiple applications. Confronted with the exhaustion of fossil energy resources, fermentative succinate production from renewable biomass to replace the traditional petrochemical process is receiving an increasing amount of attention. During the past few years, the succinate-producing process using microbial fermentation has been made commercially available by the joint efforts of researchers in different fields. In this review, recent attempts and experiences devoted to reduce the production cost of biobased succinate are summarized, including strain improvement, fermentation engineering, and downstream processing. The key limitations and challenges faced in current microbial production systems are also proposed.

Pharmaceutical Innovation in the United States: Factors Affecting Future Performance

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Cost Containment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Regulatory Strategy

AbstractFueled by high returns on its investments, the pharmaceutical industry in the United States has flourished for the past 50 years. The regulatory strategy of demanding stringent testing then allowing market-based pricing has allowed private companies to fund ambitious research and development activities with the assurance that these investments will be recovered. However, aggressive managed-care cost-containment strategies threaten the companies' ability to recoup research and development expenses and may affect their willingness to invest in future innovative research.

scholarly journals Assessment and Analysis of the Decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal in OMERS Energy v. Alberta (Energy Resources Conservation Board)

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Alicia Quesnel ◽  
Aaron Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
Court Of Appeal

This article provides an assessment of how the findings of the Alberta Court of Appeal in OMERS Energy v. Alberta (Energy Resources Conservation Board) compare and conflict with the approach historically taken by Canadian courts addressing the capability of a well and related issues. The authors then provide an analysis of uncertainties created by the findings of the Court and discuss the implications of the decision for the upstream oil and gas industry. 

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