Regrets that the Commission’s Renewables Progress Report does not put forward country-specific recommendations to adjust their policies and tools to ensure they meet their 2020 objectives; stresses that access to capital is key, yet the cost of capital in the EU-28 has been diverging significantly, resulting in a North/West vs East/South divide; notes that the existence of a variety of different policies for promoting renewable energy risks further widening the competitiveness gap among EU countries; points out the need to have an EU financial mechanism aimed at reducing high risk-derived capital costs of renewable energy projects.

2. Where the President of the Atomic Energy Control Board is absent or otherwise unable to exercise or perform his powers, duties or functions as head of that institution for the purposes of the Access to Information Act, the person holding the position of Director General, Directorate of Fuel Cycle and Materials Regulation of the Atomic Energy Control Board, or in his absence, the person holding the position of Director, Planning and Administration Branch of the Atomic Energy Control Board, is hereby designated to exercise or perform any of the powers, duties or functions of the President of the Atomic Energy Control Board as head of th ...[+++]e Atomic Energy Control Board for the purposes of the Access to Information Act.

In the U.S., the wholesale transactions and interstate energy transactions are the jurisdiction of the federal government, with an oversight by the FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

These are the boards that provide the licence to operate for something like the Hibernia rig, and a specific project would have to meet the standards set by the National Energy Board, as administered through these federal-provincial boards, before obtaining its licence and approval to go ahead with the exploration.

That's because these activities are regulated through the Minister of Natural Resources, the National Energy Board and the federal-provincial boards that currently have the responsibility for oil exploration off Canada's coasts.

The core of Bill C-471 as a legislative project is the idea that Canada needs the federal government, as the largest employer, to have a proactive federal pay equity commission with, if necessary, a tribunal to hear individual cases of abuse, but the role of a federal pay equity commission is to promote proactive pay equity reform across the federal service, the crown corporations, and all the employers under federal jurisdiction.