| 2026-02-27 |
- Guide A, A.3.1 Supply, A.3.2 Transportation Matters, and A.3.3 Markets: minor edits to reorganize and clarify filing requirements applicable to upstream and downstream facilities
- all discussion of upstream facilities is now placed in the Supply section (A.3.1) rather than in the Transportation section of Table A-5 and the Markets section in the discussion (A.3.3)
- guidance in A.3.1 to consider how climate policy might affect competitiveness and productive capacity has been expanded to “consider how climate policy or other policies, legislation, or agreements (including land use planning frameworks or agreements) might affect competitiveness and productive capacity”, per recent Commission information requests
- a requirement added in A.3.2 to provide the physical capacity of new upstream facilities to deliver incremental volumes, per recent Commission information requests
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| 2026-02-27 |
- text box at the end of A.2.1 updated to reflect CER Portal replacing Online Application System (OAS)
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| 2026-02-27 |
- Update links to Amended Section 214 Streamlining Order and Amended Decommissioning Exemption Order in Guide A, Guide K, Guide P, and Chapter 7
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| 2025-11-28 |
- Guide R ‒Transfer of Ownership, Lease or Amalgamation (CER Act section 181) and Change in Ownership Form extensively revised:
- added a link to the updated Form in Guide R
- reduced duplication and inconsistencies between the Form and Guide R by referring applicants to the Form for the detailed filing requirements
- various changes throughout the documents to improve clarity and organizational structure
- consistent use of terms such as pipeline, proposed transaction, purchaser and seller
- clarifying if there are differences in requirements for amalgamations
- improved guidance about the types of regulatory instruments that should accompany an application, including leave to open
- refined guidance related to abandonment funding and financial resource requirements
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| 2025-11-28 |
- Update links to Section 214 Streamlining Order and Decommissioning Exemption Order in Guide A, Guide K, and Chapter 7
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| 2025-11-28 |
- Section AA.1 in Guide AA – Post Certificate or Order Requirements updated to clarify that a construction safety manual specific to the current application needs to be filed at least four weeks prior to the start of construction unless otherwise directed by the CER.
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2024-09-01 |
- Step 6 of the Early Engagement Guide (Guide L) updated to improve clarity regarding the Notice of Application process for section 214, 241 and 183 applications.
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2024-05-08 |
- Copyright page on pdf version updated
- Links to Operations and Maintenance Requirements and Guidance Notes updated
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2023-11-10 |
- “there is no potential for the rights of Indigenous Peoples to be affected by the project” added to list of conditions under No or Negligible Environmental or Socio-economic Effects in section 3.4.4
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2023-09-18 |
- Guide AA, section AA.1 Filing Requirements – Engineering and Technical, Pressure Testing and Leave to Open, point 2: “One week prior” changed to “Prior”, with an explanatory footnote regarding project complexity
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2023-04-20 |
- A.2 Table A-2 – Filing Requirements for Biophysical Elements entry for GHG Emissions and Climate change extensively updated for consistency with ECCC’s October 2020 version of the Strategic Assessment of Climate Change and draft Technical Guides. The updates provide further precision and refinement in the areas of scalability, project lifetime, credible net-zero emissions plan, and avoided emissions and offset credits
- New section A.2.9 – Supplemental guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change created to provide additional context for applicants on GHG emissions and climate change assessments in relation to CER-regulated projects
- A.3 Table A-4 – Filing Requirements for Economics and Financing updated to reference “those laws and regulations that are reasonably expected to come into force … “
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2023-04-20 |
- All instances of “Indigenous peoples” changed to “Indigenous Peoples”
- All instances of “Indigenous communities” changed to “Indigenous Nations”
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2023-04-20 |
- All instances of “proponent” changed to “applicant”
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- All instances of “promoteur” changed to “demandeur”
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2023-03-01 |
- Updated P.6 Accounting Requirements and Financial Reporting to correct the basis for the regulatory requirement
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2023-02-24 |
- Updated Guide Q Introduction to reflect Commission’s 3 February 2022 letter to All Gas Importation Authorization Holders indicating that, effective 29 August 2022, the CER Act no longer requires companies to obtain authorization for the importation of natural gas
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2023-02-24 |
- B.1.3 – updated Reporting form – Companies using Set-aside mechanisms other than Trusts and Exempt Companies
- B.2.1 – updated Notice of Proposed Abandonment form
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2023-02-01 |
- Updated Step 6 of the Early Engagement Guide
- Included a link to the CER’s Statement of Concern form
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2022-10-18 |
- Deleted reference and link to Pipeline Associated Watercourse Crossings (5th Edition) in Table A-2, as document is no longer current nor widely available
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| 2022-08-31 |
- Filing Manual – extensive revisions after public comment period:
- Guide O (Variances and Project Updates)
- Guide N (Review, Rescind, or Rehear)
- section 1.5 (Confidential Filing)
- section A.3.1 (Supply)
- section A.3.3 (Markets)
- Filing Manual – minor revisions after public comment period:
- minor update to B.2.1 Notice of Proposed Abandonment guidance
- minor edits to improve consistency of Filing Requirements formatting
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| 2022-01-26 |
- Updated CER mailing address to numeric in all occurrences, i.e., 210-517 10 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0A8
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2021-11-19 |
- Guide B and Guide K extensively revised after public comment period
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| 2021-09-13 |
- Modified section 1.1 para. 3 to clarify the distinction between filing guidance and regulatory requirements
- Corrected list indentation U.2, first filing requirement
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2021-05-31 |
- Added new section 1.12 describing filing requirement for digital map data
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| 2021-05-11 |
- Changed “Appropriate Dispute Resolution” to “Alternative Dispute Resolution” in List of Abbreviations, A.4.2, U.2
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| 2021-03-01 |
- Updated A.2 link to Remediation Guide 2020
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| 2021-02-10 |
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has made updates to its Strategic Assessment of Climate Change (SACC). To reflect these updates in the CER Filing Manual, the following minor revisions were made in Table A-2 (GHG Emissions and Climate Change, and Assessment of Upstream GHG Emissions sections) and A-4 (Economics and Financing):
- replaced the SACC hyperlinks to the most current version (October SACC)
- included guidance around a credible plan to reduce emissions to net-zero by 2050, and adding reference to section 5.3 of the SACC for additional details
- included guidance around a credible plan to reduce emissions to net-zero by 2050 in the Economics and Financing section
- other small edits to align with the SACC wording, and the reference to SACC technical guides
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| 2021-01-21 |
- Updated 1.11 and Ch. 7 link to Filer's Guide to Electronic Submission
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- Updated 1.11 and Ch. 7 links to Guide du dépôt électronique à l’intention des déposants
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| 2021-01-11 |
- Corrected Table of Contents “Guidance” subheading entry under A.4.5 to read “section 322 Notices” instead of “section 214 Notices” (html version only)
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| 2020-12-16 |
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- Repaired broken links and replaced missing figures
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| 2020-11-19 |
- Updated links to new Event Reporting Guidelines
- Changed occurrences of “significant incident” to “incident that harms people or the environment” in 4.2.1 and A.3.4 and Appendix 1
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| 2020-11-02 |
- Updated Remediation Guide link, Table A-2, Soil and Soil Productivity
- Added “is suspected” to sentence containing Remediation Process Guide link, as all other versions used that
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- Updated Remediation Guide link, Table A-2, Soil and Soil Productivity
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| 2020-10-20 |
- Amended Guide O to add reference to section 190 in first paragraph and headings
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| 2020-10-15 |
- Text box at end of Guide O moved to beginning of Guide P
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| 2020-10-08 |
- Deleted point #2 in A.4.5 Checklist
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| 2020-10-05 |
- Removed dead link in Ch. 7
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| 2020-10-05 |
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- Corrected errors in French glossary re. navigable waters and human health
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| 2020-08-06 |
- Consequential Amendments arising from the coming into Force of the CER Act
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