Peter Budd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for directing and coordinating staff and expert consultants on various domestic energy projects and providing strategic, specialized regulatory and competitive market advice to governments, First Nations, and private and public clients

London, Ontario, Canada

Bedrock is a compressed air energy storage company

London, Canada Area

Currently provide strategic energy projects, regulatory, contracts, administrative and project management advice to directors, and remain responsible for directing government relations in Canadian and European jurisdictions where the company conducts business

London, Ontario

Worked full time to develop a GR strategy to achieve various regulatory approvals; filed applications, conducted GR, guided administrative law hearings; liaised with the public in project meetings

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for operations: ISSI manufactures and sells easy-install retro-fit solar-powered attic vents, which actively remove hot attic air, thereby reducing air conditioning usage and lowering electricity costs for customers and the power grid

London, United Kingdom

Learned about how Canadian lawyers could contribute valuable legal insights and skills in energy projects around the world in teams of experts, delivering projects and services to governments in developed and developing countries; as Chair, oversaw the Canadian operations at PowerBudd LLP and integrated the firm internationally where opportunities.

Participated actively in the originating formative 6 years of Ontario's competitive electricity market design, rules and operations, acting and representing the provincial residential ratepayers and customers, prior to, during and following the opening of the Ontario electricity market

Originated the idea and creation of Ontario's first specialized expert energy law firm, with emphasis on providing world-class legal services, including advice on energy and environmental policy to governments, competitive market trends, energy associations, contracts, financings, administrative law, ground-breaking First Nations energy projects, designing.

Effectively, with dedicated, successful, outstanding industry colleagues, coordinated the complex joinder of the Ontario natural gas and electricity industries into one coherent energy voice, as competitive markets converged and governments sought industry advice, with an emphasis on clear advocacy, while guiding regulatory policy and political and agency.

Toronto

As Chair, I worked together with the team at the Gas Management Income Fund to deliver financial strength to the natural gas marketing sector through amalgamations and consolidations, with the ultimate goal of advancing and fostering competitive forces and informed, transparent pricing choices and decisions for natural gas customers

Participated as an integrated partner in this world-class, Canadian energy law firm, first in the Calgary office, then later in Toronto, learning from senior partners and integrating with others, sharing experiences and knowledge

Calgary & Toronto

Started my law career in Calgary learning from legal titans like Laurie Smith and immersing the practice in several of the provincial and national energy and environmental regulatory tribunals; providing advocacy to a growing number of clients, recognizing the early need for new model settlement proceedings, mediation, and the critical political-legal.

Toronto, Canada Area

articled to Robert W. Macaulay QC, clerked OEB hearings on gas deregulation and acted as writer and part-time editor of Carswells: Practice and Procedure Before Administrative Tribunals in Canada (loose leaf series)

Western Canada Regional Office

As a summer law student 'Junior Engineering Assistant', I walked across Canada (Alberta to Quebec) surveying the national pipeline network for corrosion, learning about field operations, mainline pipe and looping construction, environmental issues and plotting on graphs the condition of the pipeline to meet National Energy Board requirments

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Criminology And Philosophy

Activities and Societies: CBA, OBA, OEA, APPRO, OWA

Advanced French Language Studies

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Administrative Law

Specialized Course Work

Education record

Education record