Priya Raman

I have spent eleven years reading Canadian energy regulation and trying to explain it to people who have to comply with it. Alberta is a good place to do that, because the framework is detailed, publicly available and revised often enough that keeping up is a real job rather than a formality.

My half of this site is the regulatory material: what the directives require, how licensing and approvals work, what the reporting obligations are, and where the framework has changed. I also edit everything Dale writes, mainly to check that a description of what operators do has not quietly become a statement about what is permitted.

The discipline I try to hold to is sourcing. If a page here says something is required, it should say which directive that comes from, so a reader can go and check the current version. Summaries go stale. A pointer to the source does not.

That is also why every regulatory page on this site carries a note telling you to verify before you act. It is not covering ourselves. It is that I have watched people make decisions from a copy of a directive saved on a shared drive four revisions ago, and it goes badly.

I am not a lawyer and nothing here is legal or compliance advice. For a compliance decision, talk to the AER or to counsel.

Credentials and experience

• Eleven years researching and writing about Canadian energy regulation
• Tracks Alberta Energy Regulator directives and bulletins as they are issued
• Sources every regulatory statement on this site to the directive it comes from
• Edits and fact-checks all guides before publication
• Is not a lawyer and does not provide legal or compliance advice