Power Projects & Power Purchase Contracts: Uncertainty Rules
Bill Reno of Lexpert
The central premise of economic deregulation is that retail and corporate consumers are better served through open marketplaces than through regulated monopolies or oligopolies. The objective is to tear down the legal walls that prevent entrepreneurs, large and small, from offering a potentially cheaper, more innovative, more convenient, more responsive, or just plain more attractive alternative to the one-size, one-price, our way vs. the highway approach to supplying goods and services. Then all one has to do is sit back and watch creativity surge, investment climb and prices drop. At least this is what we are told.
Unbundling of Natural Gas Local Distribution Companies' Services
Keegan Werlin LLP
On February 2, 1999, the Department of Telecommunications and Energy (the "Department") issued an order (the "Order.
Thelen Reid Report No. 393: SEC Recognizes New Standard for Gas Utility "Integration"
Thelen LLP
This report concerns the Securities and Exchange Commission's recently issued orders under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 which reinterpreted the "integration" standards under PUHCA.
Changes to Oil & Gas Laws and Regulations in Canada
In this overview of recent significant regulatory developments in the oil and gas sector, the scope is limited to decisions and policy changes of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (the "Board") and judicial appeals and consideration of same. In addition, a significant decision of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board ("EAB") is discussed. Of primary interest is the discussion and overview of Board and judicial decisions respecting the gas over bitumen conflict where the Board's decision to shut in natural gas wells to preserve the bitumen resource was hotly contested.
The Economic and Environmental Impact of Fuel Prices on Driving Habits
The Sawaya Law Firm
With the ever-present news of the United States' faltering economy, Americans have been looking for ways to save money.
Gaining Access to the French Natural Gas Market
Vincent Trevisani of Winston & Strawn LLP
The law nú 2003-8 of January 3, 2003 on gas and electricity markets and on the energy public service opened the market of French natural gas to competition and provided the general conditions of such opening. More than one year after the enactment of the Gas Law, two decrees were finally adopted on March 19, 2004, specifying the rules of the game applicable to gas suppliers and traders wishing to enter into the French market.
Utility Industry Deregulation Stimulates New Product and Service Offerings for the Healthcare Industry
Michael A. Walker of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Deregulation of the electric and gas utility industry is creating new opportunities for the healthcare industry to .
Privatization in Bolivia
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Background Bolivia has been seen for some years as one of the poorest countries in South America. This character.
Antitrust Defense May Not Apply to Subsidiary That Is Heavily Regulated
Mark Fogelman of Steefel, Levitt & Weiss
The Copperweld doctrineÃâa well-established antitrust defenseÃâgenerally bars claims of an unlawful antitrust combination or conspiracy against the members of a single corporate family. However, practitioners beware: The doctrine may not apply in cases where a member of the defendant corporate family is heavily regulated.