 Bennett Jones Education University of Victoria, BA, 2008 University of Western Ontario, JD, 2012 Bar Admissions Alberta, 2013 Northwest Territories, 2022 British Columbia, 2025 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:
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. Experience • 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. • Nippon Steel Corporation in its $1.15-billion investment in Elk Valley Resources Ltd., a steelmaking coal business to be spun-out as an independent public company from Teck Resources Ltd. • An Ontario-based investor in the $54.9-million sale of certain pipeline and related assets located in British Columbia. • Various confidential clients,with obtaining all necessary regulatory authorizations for the following energy developments in Alberta and British Columbia, including:
• A confidential client, obtaining all necessary regulatory authorizations for a federally regulated pipeline project. • A gas utility, with several general rate applications before the Alberta Utilities Commission. • Gas and electric utilities, with various rates matters before the Alberta Utilities Commission. • Numerous energy companies, in initial compensation and annual compensation review proceedings before the British Columbia and Alberta Surface Rights Boards. • A confidential client, with an annual compensation review proceeding before the Land Access Panel of the Metis Settlement Appeal Tribunal of Alberta. • Confidential clients, with regulatory enforcement actions and prosecutions in respect of releases and other environmental incidents. • Various clients, with expropriation inquiry and associated compensation proceedings. • Schlumberger Production Management, on the purchase of the Palliser Block assets in Alberta from Cenovus Energy Inc. for cash consideration of $1.3 billion. |