A Guide to the Alberta Utilities Commission - Indra Maharaj CIRL Research Fellow

The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and the President of the University of Calgary. [...] The Public Interest Test The most important requirement that the AUC must respect is its obligation to make all decisions on matters within its jurisdiction in the public interest.3 The public interest test is the foundation for ensuring that decisions made by the AUC consider the scope of the potential impact of the facility development on Albertans and includes consideration of the social and ec. [...] If the Applicant has failed to submit an obvious option, the AUC has the option to temporarily suspend the hearing and instruct the Applicant to consider a different option before returning to the hearing to provide additional information to the AUC. [...] The SIPs will also be used by the AUC to determine what kind of hearing, if any, to hold with respect to HOW TO ACCESS CURRENT the application, based on the number of APPLICATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS SIPs filed, the nature of the concerns, and ON THE AUC WEBSITE AND RULES the preferences stated by the interested parties, like you. [...] The information in the responses to the Information Requests helps the Commission and the Applicant be prepared for the hearing.