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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.

Overview

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.

Client Work

TriWest Capital Partners in connection with the sale of its portfolio group of companies, Fraser River Pile & Dredge, to Bird Construction 
Pembina Pipeline Corporation and Plains Midstream Canada ULC in successfully opposing an application by a residential home developer to the Alberta Energy Regulator for cost sharing orders, which would have compelled these operators to bear pipeline reinforcement costs arising from urban development  
SECURE Waste Infrastructure Corp. (TSX: SES), a leading waste management and energy infrastructure company, in its $157-million acquisition of a metals recycling business
SECURE Waste Infrastructure Corp. (TSX: SES), a leading waste management and energy infrastructure company, in its $31-million acquisition of a metals recycling business
Hillcore Group in its acquisition of CEDA, a leading service provider specialized in providing industrial maintenance, turnaround and environmental services in Western Canada.
Hillcore Group in its acquisition of SITE Resource Group, a diverse service provider providing infrastructure, piling, foundation, environmental, and civil services in Western Canada and Puerto Rico.

Recognitions & Awards

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Energy (Electricity)
Repeatedly Recommended, Energy (Oil & Gas)

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Energy lawyer 

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Victoria, BA, 2008
  • University of Western Ontario, JD, 2012

Bar Admissions

  • Alberta, 2013
  • Northwest Territories, 2022
  • British Columbia, 2025