Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro v Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities

Decided: 2026-10-19. Docket: 202501H0033. Citation: 2026 NLCA 36 (CanLII). Public utilities — Capital projects — Board approval — Public Utilities Act, ss. 16, 41 — Utility application to build generating station and transmission grid — Board rejected application and reconsideration — Scope of Board discretion in supervising capital expenditures — Leave granted only on question of law, appeal dismissed | Statutory interpretation — Electrical power policy — Test for approval — Electrical Power Control Act, 1994, ss. 3(b)(iii), 4 — Whether costs, environmental responsibility, and reliability must be assessed sequentially and on absolute measures — Modern principle of statutory interpretation applied — Liberal interpretation consistent with statutory scheme and balancing interests — Appeal di