This book examines the impact on environmental policy and law on the energy sector in the European Community, the US and Canada. It compares jurisdictional contexts, timing, application, instrument choice, and relative openness of the three regimes as they impact upon the energy sector. Amajor theme is the influence of US environmental law doctrines and approaches. The analysis includes oil and gas exploration, production, processing and transportation and non-nuclear electricity generation and transmission.The energy sector is a significant source of air and water contaminants, as well as a major land user. It is also a considerable contributor to urban smog problems, acid rain and disposal of toxic waste, as well as to the global problems of ocean pollution and the greenhouse effect. Consequently theenergy sector feels the effects of new and more stringent environmental standards, and it is these effects which these books seek to examine in depth, with helpful references to the key legal materials and leading judicial decisions.

Alastair R Lucas, QC, is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Prior to joining the Faculty in 1976 as a founding member, he was at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. He has served as executive director of the Faculty’s Canadian Institute of Resources Law as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) and as Dean of the Faculty from 2006–11. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design and teaches environmental law at the Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University.He holds a BA and an LLB from the University of Alberta and an LLM from the University of British Columbia.Al has published widely, with a concentration on regulatory issues related to energy and environmental law, oil and gas law, constitutional law, and judicial review. Recent books include An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in Canada, 2d ed (2015) with Robert Gibson, Paul Muldoon, Peter Pickfield, and Julie Williams and Canadian Environmental Law, 2d ed (2013) (loose-leaf) with Roger Cotton.He has been a consultant and policy advisor to several government departments and held numerous professional appointments. These include Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Special Legal Advisor to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and member (and Chair) of the Academic Advisory Group of the Council of the International Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL).Al has been a member of the Alberta Bar since 1968. His awards include the Law Society of Alberta/Canadian Bar Association Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Clyde O Martz Award for Natural Resources Law Teaching Excellence.

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