Michael G. Massicotte

Practice Details

• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Oil & gas regulatory matters involving gas in communication with bitumen, operating pressure, thermal well compatibility, in situ water management
  other related issues.
  Oil & gas litigation disputes involving a variety of issues, including having acted in protracted litigation on behalf of an Alberta natural gas storage facility culminating in the shut-in of a natural gas well.
  Oils
  s project development
  regulatory approval work including:
  Environmental Assessments, project approvals
  strategies to streamline the process
  Other environmental permitting work (e.g. Water Act licenses
  other related permitting)
  Consultation
  Complex litigation
  regulatory proceedings involving environmental liability arising from aging infrastructure
  Environmental regulatory compliance in a variety of scenarios, including:
  Pipeline
  other aging infrastructure risk
  Preparation of Environmental Management Plans incorporating provincial
  federal environmental regulatory frameworks
  Carbon capture
  storage project development work including:
  Advising the Government of Alberta on regulatory, consultation
  classification issues related to CCS project development
  Environmental due diligence conducted in the context of a variety of purchase
  sale transactions
  Appeals of Environmental Protection Orders
  other AESRD/AER decisions
  Successful defence of various environmental prosecutions
  LARP
  other Regional Plan
  l
  use issues
  Contaminated site
  other related environmental litigation