Facilities – Industrial System Designation
Application
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”) Petroleum North America ULC (“CPNA”) and CNOOC Canada Energy Ltd. hold Order 25113-D02-2020,1 designating the Long Lake Project Industrial Complex as an industrial system pursuant to s. 4 of the Hydro and Electric Energy Act (“HEEA”). CPNA requested permission to expand the area of its Long Lake industrial system designation (“ISD”) area to include legal subdivisions 9, 14, 15, and 16 of Section 35, Township 85, Range 7, west of the Fourth Meridian, and add new electrical equipment, including a 1.2-kilometre 25-kilovolt distribution line to the industrial system.
Decision
Pursuant to s. 4 of the HEEA and s. 2(1)(d) and 117 of the Electric Utilities Act, the AUC approved the application for amendment of the ISD.
Applicable Legislation
Electric Utilities Act, SA 2003, c E-5.1 – s 2(1)(d) and 117.
Hydro and Electric Energy Act, RSA 2000, c H-16 – s 4.
Pertinent Issues
The AUC found that the participant involvement program conducted by CPNA met the requirements of Rule 007: Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines, Industrial System Designations, Hydro Developments, and Gas Utility Pipelines.
The AUC noted that the AUC did not assess approval of the construction and operation of distribution facilities, such as those proposed by CPNA. The AUC’s role in this application was to assess whether the expansion of the ISD area and the inclusion of the proposed distribution facilities in the ISD will continue to meet the principles and criteria set out in s. 4 of the HEEA.
In the case of ISD applications, the AUC noted that it is not necessary to make findings on the applicability of principles and criteria to aspects of the industrial system that it had already considered in the initial application and that are not materially altered by the proposed amendment.
