Tim Myers is an experienced energy regulatory lawyer specializing in the areas of project development, utilities and rates, and environmental, Indigenous and surface rights law.
Tim regularly advises and represents clients in connection with:
- facility and associated regulatory and environmental approval/assessment processes for oil and gas producers, pipeline companies, power generators, and electricity and natural gas providers;
- enforcement and compliance matters in relation to significant environmental and operational incidents, including experience with contaminated sites, environmental protection orders, regulatory enforcement actions, investigations, and prosecutions;
- rates and tolling matters;
- negotiation of surface rights dispositions with landowners for energy developments, and surface rights and expropriation compensation proceedings;
- the energy transformation, including CCUS projects, renewable resource projects and hydrogen initiatives; and
- commercial transactions involving businesses and assets in the energy, energy services, mining and utility sectors.
Tim appears before the Canada Energy Regulator; various administrative tribunals in Alberta, including the Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Utilities Commission, Land and Property Rights Tribunal, Metis Settlement Appeal Tribunal, and Environmental Appeals Board; the British Columbia Energy Regulator, Energy Resource Appeal Tribunal; Surface Rights Board in British Columbia; public utility regulators; environmental impact assessment boards; and land and water management boards in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Tim has represented clients before all levels of Court in Alberta and the British Columbia Supreme Court.
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