Alan Harvie
Alan has practised energy and environmental/regulatory law since 1989 and regularly deals with commercial, operational, environmental and regulatory issues, especially for the upstream oil and gas industry. He is Chair of the firm's Environmental Law Practice Group and a member of the firm's Energy Department. Alan has significant legal experience in acting for the oil and gas industry in commercial transactions and regulatory matters, including common carrier and processor applications, forced poolings, downspacings and holdings, rateable take, and facility, well and pipeline applications. Alan has also dealt with commercial, environmental and regulatory issues concerning power plants, transmission and distribution lines, tourism and recreation projects, forestry, mining, commercial real estate, industrial facilities, sewage plants, hazardous waste landfills and water storage reservoirs.
Alan has appeared before the Alberta Courts, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, the Natural Resources Conservation Board, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board, the Municipal Government Board and various other municipal and regulatory bodies.
Alan has recently developed experience in the embryonic field of carbon emissions and trading, and attended COP 11/MOP I in Montreal and CarbonExpo in Cologne, Germany.
The LEXPERT Legal Directory has repeatedly recommended Alan as a leading lawyer in environmental law, and he is listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading environmental lawyer in Canada.
- University of Wales, LL.B. (Honours), 1988
- University of Alberta, B.A. (Economics), 1984
- Alberta, 1989
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association – Alberta Branch
- Member & Past Chair, CBA Environmental Law Subsection
- Member, Canadian Water Resources Association
- Member, International Emissions Trading Association
- Member, Petroleum Joint Venture Association
- Member, Highwood-Little Bow Public Advisory Committee
- Past Chair, Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Environment Policy Sub-Committee
- Presentor, The EUB Coalbed Methane Review Hearing: A First Step on the Path to Certainty?, June 2007
- New EUB Public Consultation Requirements, March 2007
- CO2 Enhanced Resource Recovery in Alberta, February 2007
- Update: Meeting the Legal, Regulatory and Environmental Challenges of Coalbed Methane Development in Alberta, November 2006
- Update: Meeting the Legal, Regulatory and Environmental Challenges of Coalbed Methane Development in Alberta, October 2005
- Update: Meeting the Legal, Regulatory and Environmental Challenges of Coalbed Methane Development in Alberta, October 2002
- Class Actions for Environmental Claims, February 2002
- Leading Practitioner, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008
- Environmental Law
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007
- Environmental Law
- Founding Director, Western Sky Land Trust Society
- Former President, Trout Unlimited Canada
