525 8th Ave SW, Fl 46, Eighth Ave Pl E, Calgary, AB
Year called to bar: 1996 (AB)
David has been involved in Alberta’s electricity sector since 1997 and has experience in all aspects of both the regulated and the unregulated electricity sectors, including utility rates, cost of capital, market rules, reliability standards and energy price-setting plans, transmission, distribution, generation and cogeneration facilities, industrial systems, merchant transmission, and generation and market surveillance investigations. He also regularly advises on disputes under Alberta’s legislated Power Purchase Arrangements. David has appeared before numerous regulatory tribunals, including the National Energy Board, Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, Alberta Securities Commission, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board. He has also appeared in all levels of courts in Alberta, trial courts in British Columbia and Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
On September 25, 2018, Inter Pipeline Ltd. (“Inter Pipeline”) completed its divestiture of the Heartland Petrochemical Complex’s Central Utility Block (“CUB”) to Fengate Capital Management (“Fengate”), a privately held infrastructure and real estate investment firm.