Canadian Energy Policy And The Struggle For Sustainable Development

by Doern, G. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780802085610
• ISBN10: 080208561X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-05
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In recent years, energy policy has been increasingly linked to concepts of sustainable development. In this timely collection, editor G. Bruce Doern presents an overview of Canadian energy policy, gathering together the top Canadian scholars in the field in an examination of the twenty-year period broadly benchmarked by energy liberalization and free trade in the mid-1980s, and by Canada's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.The contributors examine issues including electricity restructuring in the wake of the August 2003 blackout, the implications of the Bush Administration's energy policies, energy security, northern pipelines and Aboriginal energy issues, provincial changes in energy policy, and overall federal-provincial changes in regulatory governance. They also demonstrate that, since per capita energy usage has actually increased in the past several years, sustainable development remains very much a struggle rather than an achievement. When the Kyoto Protocol and its requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are factored in, the Canadian record is especially dubious in basic energy terms. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada's endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities.

Author Biography

G. Bruce Doern is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, and the Politics Department at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development: Political-Economic Context	3	(48)
G. Bruce Doern
The Changing Nature of National and Continental Energy Markets	51	(32)
Andre Plourde
Energy Policy and Sustainable Development	83	(22)
Robert W. Morrison
Accounting for the Uncountable: Valuing the Environment in Energy Policy	105	(23)
Bill Jarvis
Electricity Restructuring in Canada	128	(23)
Donald N. Dewees
Canada--U.S. Electricity Trade and the Climate Change Agenda	151	(23)
Scott Vaughan
C. Line Carpentier
Zachary Patterson
Paul Miller
Sustainable and Socially Efficient Electricity Production: How Will Ontario Satisfy the Criteria?	174	(26)
Stephan Schott
Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry in the Era of the Kyoto Protocol	200	(23)
Keith Brownsey
The Smartest Steward? Indigenous People and Petroleum-Based Economic Development in Canada's North	223	(23)
Frances Abele
Northern Gas Pipeline Policy and Sustainable Development, Then and Now?	246	(26)
Nigel Bankes
Michael M. Wenig
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Energy Regulation: Opportunities, Experiences, and Prospects	272	(21)
Monica Gattinger
The Alberta Energy Sector's Voluntary Approach to Climate Change: Context, Prospects, and Limits	293	(18)
Alastair Lucas
Conclusions and Related Energy Policy Challenges for a Martin Liberal Government	311	(26)
G. Bruce Doern
Contributors	337