aid: canada-energy-regulator url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canada-energy-regulator/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Canada Energy Regulator kind: company description: >- The Canada Energy Regulator (CER / Régie de l'énergie du Canada) is Canada's federal energy regulator, created by the Canadian Energy Regulator Act in 2019 to replace the National Energy Board. Its remit is the interprovincial and international layer of the energy system: pipelines and power lines that cross a provincial or national border, imports and exports of oil, natural gas, NGLs, LNG and electricity, oil and gas activity on frontier and offshore lands, and offshore renewable energy projects. It does not regulate the distribution utilities that meter and bill Canadian households — electricity and gas distribution is provincial, which is why the only consumer energy data mandate in the country, Ontario's Green Button regulation O. Reg. 633/21, is administered by the Ontario Energy Board and not by the CER. The CER's API posture is the cleanest possible statement of that split: it is genuinely open on market and system data and entirely absent on consumer data. It publishes 83 datasets and 944 resources on the Government of Canada Open Government Portal, every one of them under the Open Government Licence – Canada, 894 of them CSV files served anonymously from its own www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/ tree, all of it queryable without a key through the portal's CKAN Action API. It operates its own ArcGIS Online organization whose 23 hosted feature services — pipeline systems, incidents, provincial pipeline status, resource areas, refineries — answered anonymous ArcGIS REST queries on 2026-07-27, and it publishes an Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments layer through the Federal Geospatial Platform as both an Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer and an OGC WMS 1.3.0 service. It also open-sources the front ends for its own visualizations on GitHub. What it does not have is a developer portal, an OpenAPI definition, an API key, a rate-limit policy, or a single machine-readable path to an individual customer's usage or billing data. No mandate obliges it to have one. Home market Canada. image: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/global/images/logo_cer_en.png tags: - Energy - Canada - Regulation - Government - Pipelines - Electricity - Natural Gas - Crude Oil - Energy Markets - Open Data - Geospatial created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-arcgis-feature-services name: CER ArcGIS Online Feature Services description: >- The Canada Energy Regulator operates its own ArcGIS Online organization (portal neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com, organization id vNzamREXvX2WcX6d) and hosts 23 public feature services on it. This is the one genuinely CER-operated machine-readable API surface found in this review. The services directory, every FeatureServer descriptor and the /query operation all answered anonymous HTTPS requests on 2026-07-27 with no key, no signup and no terms click-through. Layers include CER_Pipeline_Systems_WGS84_view, Incident_Data_English_20191007_View (1,899 features confirmed by a returnCountOnly query), Prov_Pipe_Status (43 features), Prov_Pipe_Type, Oil_and_Gas_Resource_Area, Refinery, Western_Canada_Sedimentary_Basin, Pipelines_Profile_Links_EN_view and both English and French incident layers. The contract is Esri's ArcGIS REST API, not OpenAPI; no OpenAPI, Swagger or /api-docs document is published for it. This service backs the public CER Interactive Pipeline Map. humanURL: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/safety-environment/industry-performance/interactive-pipeline/index.html baseURL: https://services5.arcgis.com/vNzamREXvX2WcX6d/arcgis/rest/services tags: - Geospatial - Pipelines - Incidents - Open Data - ArcGIS properties: - type: APIReference url: https://services5.arcgis.com/vNzamREXvX2WcX6d/arcgis/rest/services?f=json - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/safety-environment/industry-performance/interactive-pipeline/index.html - type: Documentation url: https://neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2d11fd4e6a7a4f4ba7fe6bdf51ae52de - type: Website url: https://neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com/ - type: APIReference name: ArcGIS REST services directory (captured verbatim 2026-07-27) url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-services.json - type: JSONSchema name: Attribute schemas for all 25 CER ArcGIS feature layers (derived) url: json-schema/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-layers.schema.json - type: DataModel url: data-model/canada-energy-regulator-data-model.yml - aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-assessments-map-service name: CER Assessments Map Service (Federal Geospatial Platform) description: >- The CER's Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments (ESA) layer, published through the Government of Canada's Federal Geospatial Platform at maps-cartes.services.geo.ca under the NRCan folder and served in English and French. Two protocols are exposed for the same data and both answered anonymously on 2026-07-27: an Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer (?f=json returned a service description naming the CER as the data owner) and an OGC WMS 1.3.0 endpoint whose GetCapabilities document parsed as valid XML. This is CER data on federal shared infrastructure rather than a CER-operated host, and it is the only place in this review where an open, vendor-neutral international standard (OGC WMS) is used. humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/039fbd92-43c2-4805-b210-d65703712e37 baseURL: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer tags: - Geospatial - Assessments - WMS - OGC - Open Data properties: - type: APIReference url: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer?f=json - type: Documentation url: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0 - type: Documentation url: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/039fbd92-43c2-4805-b210-d65703712e37 - type: APIReference name: ArcGIS MapServer descriptor (captured verbatim 2026-07-27) url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-cer-assessments-mapserver.json - type: APIReference name: OGC WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities (captured verbatim 2026-07-27) url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-cer-assessments-wms-capabilities.xml - aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-open-data-ckan name: CER Open Data via the Open Government Portal CKAN API description: >- The Canada Energy Regulator publishes no API of its own for tabular data, but all of its open data is machine-readable through the Government of Canada Open Government Portal's CKAN Action API, which is operated by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and not by the CER. Filtering that API to the CER's organization id A3EE9522-882F-47B0-BA7D-83420DC8577C returned 83 datasets carrying 944 resources on 2026-07-27 — 894 CSV, 36 HTML, 8 PDF, 2 XLSX, 2 Esri REST and 2 WMS — every one licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Coverage is the CER's regulatory and market record: crude oil, natural gas, NGL, LNG and electricity imports and exports, pipeline throughput, capacity and tolls, pipeline financial information, incidents, conditions, compliance and enforcement, the regulated company list, frontier production statistics and the Canada's Energy Future projection series. Only one of the 944 resources is loaded into the CKAN datastore, so datastore_search row-level querying is effectively unavailable; the real access pattern is metadata over the API and then bulk CSV download from https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/, which was confirmed serving a 10,110-byte LNG exports file anonymously. humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec baseURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action tags: - Open Data - CKAN - Energy Markets - Imports and Exports - Statistics properties: - type: APIReference url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search - type: Documentation url: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/ common: - type: DomainSecurity url: security/canada-energy-regulator-domain-security.yml - type: Website url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-visualization/ - type: APIReference url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/CER-REC - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/CER-REC/pipeline-profiles - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/CER-REC/conditions - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/CER-REC/incidents-pipeliniers_pipeline-incidents - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions.html - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions.html#s1 - type: Support url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/contact/index.html - type: Blog url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/news-room/index.html - type: License name: Open Government Licence - Canada url: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada - type: Authentication url: authentication/canada-energy-regulator-authentication.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/canada-energy-regulator-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/canada-energy-regulator-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/canada-energy-regulator-lifecycle.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/canada-energy-regulator-conformance.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/canada-energy-regulator-data-model.yml - type: Vocabulary name: Canada Energy Regulator energy glossary (356 terms) url: vocabulary/canada-energy-regulator-glossary.yml - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-layers.schema.json - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/canada-energy-regulator-llms.txt maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com