Response from federal government could further inflame tensions with Alberta’s government, which was behind the legal challenge to the Impact Assessment Act
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, in a statement provided to The Globe and Mail, said 'The opinion of the court does not call into question other regulatory initiatives under development, and we are confident that they are within the purview of the federal government.
Mr. Guilbeault’s assessment is predicated on the planned regulations for the oil and gas and electricity sectors drawing on different federal powers from the Impact Assessment Act. Unlike that stand-alone legislation, both are widely expected to be implemented through amendments to the existing Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Such efforts “always involve a certain degree of crystal ball gazing by the federal government” when it comes to withstanding court challenges, said Stewart Elgie, a law and economics professor who is director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Ottawa. But Brad Gilmour, who heads the regulatory department at the law firm Bennett Jones, pointed to other sections of the ruling stating that greenhouse gas emissions that transcend borders have not been sufficiently proven to meet national-concern requirements – historically applied to localized pollution impacts around projects – to justify related regulatory powers afforded by the Impact Assessment Act.
It could do so by increasing the stringency of carbon pricing specifically for the oil and gas sector, which was one of the two implementation models Ottawa initially said it was considering, and could place the policy within the broader pricing system that has already been green-lit by the Supreme Court.
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