Kimberly is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Energy & Infrastructure Groups in Calgary and the Co-Lead of the National Environmental Group. Her practice focuses on energy (including electricity and oil and gas), regulatory, and environmental law. Kimberly’s practice involves a broad range of regulatory and commercial work involving pipelines, natural gas and electric utilities and energy projects, including renewables, energy storage and carbon capture, utilization and storage and nuclear power. The environmental component of Kimberly’s practice concentrates on environmental counselling, environmental investigations and prosecutions, analysis of new regulations, environmental issues raised in commercial transactions and environmental assessment and permitting. She also has extensive experience in the carbon market, providing strategic advice on matters relating to offset systems, offset protocols, verification procedures and emissions trading. She has appeared before several regulatory tribunals, including the Canada Energy Regulator, the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board and the British Columbia Energy Regulator.
Legislative and policy shifts in climate change environmental regimes, both federally and provincially, have all affected the energy sector, which must adapt to those changes