Power Switch : Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Key Themes -- The Energy Policy and Political Context: The U.S. Bush Energy Plan and Federal Liberal Energy Policy -- Energy Regulatory Governance: The Nature of Energy Regulation, Regulatory Regimes, and Regulatory Institutions -- Structure and Organization -- PART 1: HISTORY, FRAMEWORK, AND GLOBAL CONTEXT -- 1 Canadian Energy Policy and Regulation in Historical Context -- The Five Imperatives -- Key Historical Periods -- Conclusions -- 2 Analysing the Power Switch: Factors and Framework -- Key Factors for Change: A Closer Look -- Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Interacting Regimes and the Regulation of Energy As an Essential Service Networked Industry -- Conclusions -- 3 U.S. Influences: FERC and Alternative Energy Regulatory Models -- FERC Policy and Regulatory Developments -- Impact on Canada -- Conclusions -- PART 2: ENERGY REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS AND INTER-REGIME CHANGE -- 4 The National Energy Board -- Origins of the NEB -- The NEB Mandate and Key Changes since 1985 -- The NEB As Incentive Regulator: Negotiated Pipeline-Toll Incentive Settlements and Export Review Processes -- The NEB As Joint Environmental and Safety Regulator -- Conclusions -- 5 The Ontario Energy Board -- The OEB and the New Competitive Ontario Regime -- The 1998 Mandate Change and the New OEB -- The OEB As Incentive Regulator -- The OEB and Horizontal Environmental Regulation -- Conclusions -- 6 The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board -- Mandate and Key Changes during the Last Decade -- Leadership, Representation, and Core Culture -- Incentive Regulation: Negotiated Settlement Processes -- Inter-regime Influences: Environmental Regulation -- Conclusions -- 7 Energy and Competition Regulation: Towards Workable Competition -- Competition and the Regulation of Competition.

The Competition Bureau and Industry Sectoral Regulators -- Joint Competition Regulation in Energy -- Inter-regime Accountability: The California Crisis and Transitional Imperatives -- Conclusions -- 8 Energy and Environmental Regulation: Regulatory 'Stacking' in the Climate Change Era -- Traditional 'End of Pipe' Environmental Regulation -- Sustainable Development and the New NRCan-Environment Canada Regulatory Relationship -- Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and Global Regulation -- Environment-Energy Regulatory Stacking: Command and Control and Incentive Regulation -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Key Themes -- The Bush Energy Agenda and the Chrétien Liberals' Response -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Power Switchis one of the first accounts in many years of Canada's overall energy regulatory system.

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