CURRICULUM VITAE

CHRISTOPHER JONES

Christopher Jones, Senior Legal Counsel Ministry of Attorney General Legal Services Branch Environment, Resource and Aboriginal Law Group Suite 340– 1675 Douglas Street Victoria, BC

Phone: (250) 356-0464 Fax: (250) 387-6597 E-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Degree or Diploma Field Institution Year Granted

LL.B. Law Dalhousie University 1993

B.A. (High Distinction) Political Science and 1989 Environmental Studies

 Solicitor, Resource, Environmental & Land Law Group, Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Attorney General, since April 2005.

o Appointed Senior Legal Counsel in March 2012.

 Lawyer, Arvay Finlay, Barristers, Victoria and Vancouver, June 1997 – March 2005.

 Lawyer, Guild Yule and Company, Vancouver, 1995-97.

 Called to the Bar of the Province of in March 1996.

 Clerk, Federal Court of Canada, Ottawa, 1993-95.

 Legislative Intern, Legislature Internship Program, 1989-90.

COUNSEL OF RECORD, SELECTED CASES

For the Province of British Columbia:

Northern Gateway Project, Application for approval under the National Energy Board Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2013

Application by BC Hydro for the filing of Energy Supply Contracts with Alcan Inc., 2006

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority/FortisBC Inc. Application for Exemptions Regarding the Canal Plant Agreement, 2005

Application to Construct the Georgia Strait Crossing Natural Gas Pipeline, National Energy Board, 2003

Sumas Energy 2, Inc., Application to Construct an International Power Line, National Energy Board, 2001

(For the Sierra Club of Canada) BC Hydro 2005-2006 Revenue Requirements Application, British Columbia Utilities Commission, 2004

(For Westcoast Gas Services Inc.) B.C. Gas Utility Ltd., Southern Crossing Pipeline Project, Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, British Columbia Utilities Commission, March 1999

ADVISING SOLICITOR, SELECTED LEGISLATION

Clean Energy Act, SBC 2010, c. 22

Major amendments to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act, RSBC 1996, c. 361

Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Requirements) Act, SBC 2008, c. 16

Utilities Commission Amendment Act, SBC 2008, c. 15

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, SBC 2007 c. 42

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Adjunct Professor, : Energy Law 2013

Sessional Professor, University of Victoria: Oil and Gas Law, 2002-2004, 2007

Sessional Professor, University of British Columbia, Regulatory Law, 2003-2004

Chair, “Maximizing Opportunities and Profiting from the Evolving Electricity Sector”, Canadian Institute Conference, Vancouver, December 2004

Co-chair (with the Hon. Roger Kerans), “BC Offshore Resources: A MASC Lawyers Workshop”, Maritime Awards Society of Canada, Victoria, March 2004

Director, Canadian Institute of Energy (BC), 2000-

Director, Maritime Awards Society of Canada, 2011-

Gale Moot Team Coach, University of Victoria, 1998-2000.

Chair, "Streamlining the Approval of Oil and Gas Operations in B.C.", Insight Canada Conference, Calgary, December 1999

Participated in creating the Oil and Gas Commission Act, S.B.C. 1998, c. 39

Contributor, World Health Organization Reference to the International Court of Justice, 1994.

Member Works of Art and Committee and Foundation Board, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2012-

PUBLICATIONS

(With Murray Rankin et al.) “A Comparative Analysis of Law and Policy on Access to Health Care Provider Data” (2001), 14 C.J.A.L.P. 225.

(With Murray Rankin) “Conflicts Involving Water in British Columbia: The Provincial Perspective”, Law Seminars International, Canadian Water Law Conference, October 1999.

(With Murray Rankin et al.) “Regulatory Reform in the British Columbia Petroleum Industry: The Oil and Gas Commission” (2000), 38:1 Alta. Law Rev. 143.

(With Peter Johnson) “Case Comment: Harrington (Guardian ad litem of) v. Royal Inland Hospital” (1997), 55 The Advocate 693.

(With Vaughan Black) “Thomson v. Thomson” Case Comment (1995), 12 C.F.L.Q. 321.

“Question Period Tactics and the Ontario ” in Graham White ed., Inside the Pink Palace: Ontario Legislative Internship Program Essays, (Toronto: The Canadian Political Science Association, 1994).