The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) brings together the best elements of Alberta’s strong regulatory systems to bring improvements in compliance, enforcement, accountability, and transparency to Alberta’s energy and mineral development activities.
The Compliance Dashboard demonstrates how the AER is involved in incident response, investigations, compliance, and enforcement and replaces the Incident Reporting Tool and ST108 – AER Monthly Enforcement Action Summary.
Incidents
Access incident reporting posted to the compliance dashboard.
Investigations
Learn more on the status of investigations and the steps the AER takes to apply enforcement actions.
Noncompliance & Enforcement
Learn more about the types of decisions and enforcement actions taken.
The dashboard includes information that is already publicly available through the Access to Information Act (ATIA). The AER is presenting this information online, in an easily accessible manner, to further increase the transparency of the regulator’s activities. If you have questions about the dashboard or the content it contains, please email inquiries@aer.ca.
When requirements are not followed, the AER has a powerful suite of compliance tools that ensure that the company immediately fixes the problem and follows the requirements in the future. The AER is active across the province, holding industry training sessions, conducting inspections, carrying out audits, and completing investigations.
Enforcement is another key part of ensuring compliance. Under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, Water Act, and Public Lands Act, the AER has more enforcement options available to ensure compliance and deter noncompliance. Companies that are allowed to develop Alberta’s energy and mineral resources must follow all rules, regulations, and requirements. If they do not, there are strong consequences.
Remedial actions are taken by the regulator to force a company to come into compliance and can include a warning letter, suspending a licence, or issuing orders. Punitive enforcement tools are designed to penalize the responsible party and can include everything from administrative penalties (fines), prosecution, restricting operations, imposing certain terms and conditions, and shutting down an operation until full compliance is demonstrated.
