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Marie H. Buchinski

Partner

Head of Regulatory: Utilities and Rates Practice

Head of Regulatory: Utilities and Rates Practice |

T: 403.298.8136

Calgary

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T: 403.298.8136


Calgary

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Marie Buchinski is the head of the firm’s Utilities and Rates Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Regulatory, Environmental and Indigenous Law Department and the firm's Energy & Oil and Gas Industry Team. Her practice focuses on advising clients on energy regulatory matters, including project development and associated approval requirements, tolls and tariffs, compliance and Indigenous matters.

Marie has more than 15 years of experience advising and providing strategic advice to clients on federal and provincial regulatory matters in respect of energy and utility developments and associated tolls and tariffs issues. She regularly appears before the Canada Energy Regulator (formerly the National Energy Board), Alberta Utilities Commission, and Alberta Energy Regulator (and its predecessor, the Energy Resources Conservation Board), and has also appeared before other regulatory tribunals including the Alberta Surface Rights Board and Occupational Health and Safety Tribunal Canada. She regularly advocates for clients before the Alberta Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada on related appeal matters.

Marie has significant experience on regulatory and environmental matters in relation to energy developments. She has represented clients before regulatory tribunals on matters related to facilities approvals; rates, tolls and tariffs; jurisdictional issues; Indigenous rights; land acquisition; pipeline access; and energy imports and exports. Before the Alberta Utilities Commission, she regularly represents regulated entities on rates and tariff matters, and on matters related to facilities approvals and their interconnection to the Alberta Interconnected Electric System (AIES). Marie also has significant experience representing clients before the Commission on matters respecting the operation of the AIES, including the rules of the Alberta Electric System Operator related to transmission line losses, transmission constraints management, and the allocation of transmission capacity on the Alberta interties.

Marie has assisted in the preparation of numerous papers, publications and blogs relating to regulatory issues across Canada, most recently with respect to consultation requirements, the Federal Court's dismissal of challenges to the Approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, Canadian energy exports, and legislative developments related to Bill C-69 and the creation of the Canada Energy Regulator. She has also instructed at the University of Calgary on energy matters related to facilities approvals, tolls and tariffs, energy imports and exports, and environmental regulation.

Education

University of Saskatchewan, BComm, 1993, Great Distinction University of Saskatchewan, LLB, 1994, Distinction 

Bar Admissions

Saskatchewan, 1995 Alberta, 1998 

Recent Experience

Canada Energy Regulator (formerly the National Energy Board)

  • Various pipeline matters in respect of tolls, tariffs, energy exports, pipeline access and related regulatory and appeal proceedings
  • Approvals for the construction and operation of federally regulated pipelines, including routing and compensation proceedings and transfers related to facilities and approvals
  • Approvals for capacity expansion, reversal of flow, relocations, deactivation, decommissioning and reactivation of federally regulated pipelines
  • In respect of contracting for service on oil pipelines
  • Alliance Pipeline Inc. in respect of an application to the National Energy Board for approval of its New Services Offering
  • In respect of Indigenous matters, including consultation and the negotiation of agreements
  • In respect of verification procedures for oil pipelines
  • In respect of financial and facility audits conducted by the Regulator
  • In respect of an application by TransCanada for long term fixed price service
  • In respect of the NEB’s Land Matters Consultation Initiative, including with respect to abandonment cost estimates, abandonment surcharges, set-aside mechanisms and collection mechanisms
  • In respect of approvals for oil, gas and electricity exports

Alberta Utilities Commission

  • Alberta power producers, in respect of the Alberta Interconnected Electrical System (AIES), including matters related to electricity exports, rules of the AIES, and regulatory proceedings related to the operation of the AIES, and related appeals to the Alberta Court of Appeal
  • ATCO Power Canada Ltd., in proceedings before the Alberta Utilities Commission on matters related to the operation of the AIES, including matters related to transmission line losses, transmission constraints management, and the allocation of transmission capacity on the Alberta interties, and related appeals to the Alberta Court of Appeal
  • ATCO Utilities, on a variety of regulated utility matters, including general rate applications, capital trackers, and facilities
  • In respect of a Commission proceeding regarding the publication of the Historical Trading Reports by the Alberta Electric System Operator
  • In respect of a Commission Initiated Proceeding to consider Independent System Operator Rules to implement and operate the Capacity Market in Alberta
  • In respect of an Alberta Electric System Operator Application for approval of the Peace River Exception pursuant to Section 15(2) of the Transmission Regulation
  • In respect of an Application by the Alberta Electric System Operator for approval of its 2014 Tariff and related review and variance applications and appeals
  • In respect of the Alberta Electric System Operator 2014 ISO Tariff Application and 2013 ISO Tariff Update – Supply Opportunity Service Rate Module

Alberta Energy Regulator

  • Facility approvals for pipelines, including Williams Energy (Canada) Inc.'s HVP Boreal Pipeline Project and Access Pipeline Inc., in a $400-million joint venture between MEG Energy Corporation and Devon ARL Canada Corporation, and all regulatory matters related to the pipelines and related facilities, including facilities approvals, land access, and Indigenous, land and environmental matters
  • Regulatory counsel to facility proponents, shippers and producers in respect of matters related to energy facilities, pipeline access, tolls, tariffs, and energy exports and related regulatory proceedings
  • Advice regarding Indigenous matters, including standing in regulatory proceedings, consultation and the negotiation of agreements

Select Additional Experience

  • Veresen Inc., in the purchase of Encana Corp's midstream gas gathering and processing plants in Alberta and British Columbia for $920 million
  • Plains Midstream Canada ULC, in its $1.67-billion acquisition of the Canadian natural gas liquids and liquefied petroleum gas business of BP Canada
  • State of Alaska, on Canadian Regulatory matters associated with the proposed Alaska Pipeline Project
  • Wind power producers in Alberta regarding connection to the Alberta Interconnected Electrical System
  • Alberta Power (2000) Ltd., in the acquisition by ENMAX Corporation of the Battle River Power Purchase Arrangement from EPCOR Utilities Inc.
  • ATCO Power Canada Limited, in a transmission must run services agreement in the Rainbow Lake area
  • Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline, in respect of general regulatory matters and in connection with facilities expansions and rate related issues

Recent Recognition

The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly Recommended, Energy (Electricity), and Indigenous Law
Consistently Recommended, Energy (Oil & Gas)
Lexpert Report on Business Special Edition - Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers
Recognized as a leading Energy lawyer in Canada
Benchmark Litigation: Canada
Recognized as a Litigation Star
Best Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as one of Canada's Best Lawyers in Energy Law and Energy Regulatory Law

Insights, News & Events

Blog

Canada's Hydrogen Strategy

December 17, 2020
       

Blog

Alberta's Industrial Heartland as Canada's Potential First Hydrogen Node

November 23, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Leads Canada in Energy Law

October 27, 2020
       

Blog

Hydrogen 101: Basics of Hydrogen Supply Chains

October 07, 2020
       

Blog

Canada Energy Regulator Denies NGTL Abandonment Application

June 01, 2020
       

Blog

Alberta Utilities Commission Approves Deferral of Payments for AESO Tariff Transmission Charges

April 30, 2020
       

Blog

Canada Energy Regulator Amends Pipeline Regulations and Introduces New Power Lines Regulations

April 24, 2020
       

Blog

AUC Announces Interim Changes to Participant Involvement Programs

April 08, 2020
       

Blog

Federal Court of Appeal Dismisses Challenge to GIC Approval of Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

February 06, 2020
       

Blog

New Proponent Guide to First Nations and Métis Settlements Consultation Released by Alberta Government

February 05, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Leads Canada in Energy Law

September 03, 2019
       

In the News

Marie Buchinski in Lexpert on Canada’s Bill C-69

August 31, 2018
       

Updates

The Creation of the Canadian Energy Regulator

March 01, 2018
       

Updates

Sea Change: The Canadian Navigable Waters Act

February 22, 2018
       

Updates

Reshaping Canada’s Project Assessment Regime—Bill 69’s Ambitious Blueprint

February 20, 2018
       

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