Making Federalism through Law: Regulating Socio-economic Challenges of Energy Development, a Case Study of Alberta’s Oil sands and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

• Main Author: Thompson, Chidinma Bernadine
• Other Authors: Lucas, Alastair, Kwasniak, Arlene
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2013
• Subjects: Law; oil sands; Legislative; Regulatory; Socio-economic; Federalism; Energy; Oil and Gas; Municipal; Government; Policy; Intergovernmental Partnership; Infrastructure; Non-centralization; Workforce; resource development; Alberta; Canada; Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1216; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26816

Socio-economic challenges of large scale oil and gas development, especially oil sands, within municipal boundaries are not given adequate attention in Alberta’s oil and gas development regulatory framework. There is no forum in the framework that allows a thorough consideration and proactive resolu...