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University of Calgary
Faculty of Law
Critical Intersections for Energy & Water Law: New Challenges and Opportunities Conference
The University of Calgary, Faculty of Law and University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento, California), together with their partners from the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee (United Kingdom), brought together legal academics, practitioners, business leaders, and regulatory officials for an international conference exploring vital new intersections of energy and water law on May 20 and 21, 2009 in Calgary, Alberta. The global impact and potential influence of a conference of this nature is significant. Attendees explored the domestic and transnational intersections of energy and water law regimes.
Conference Presentations
PowerPoint slides from the presentations are available:
A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law: “Water, Energy and the Obama Administration’s ‘Energy Independence’”
Stephen McCaffrey, Pacific McGeorge School of Law: "Energy, Water Law and The Nile Basin Negotiations”
Richard Paisley, Global Transboundary International Waters Initiative, The University of British Columbia: “Adversaries Into Partners: International Waters and Equitable Benefit Sharing”
David Schindler, Killam Memorial Chair, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta: “Water Use in Energy Development: Science and Market Based Solutions”
Alistair Rieu-Clarke, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee: “Exploring the Linkages Between Hydropower Development, Transboundary Waters and International Law: A Case Study of the Se San River Basin”
Nidhi Srivastava, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi: “Federal Challenges to a Synergy Between Water and Energy Law”
Melinda Harm Benson, Department of Geography, The University of New Mexico: “Adaptive Management Approaches by Resource Management Agencies in the United States: Implications for Energy Development in the Interior West”
John Ruple, Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, Quinney College of Law, Wallace Stegner Centre for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah: “Water for Oil Shale in Utah and Colorado: Two Opportunities to Create
Clarity”
Robin Kundis Craig, Florida State University College of Law: "Water Supply, Desalination, Climate Change and Energy Policy”
Patricia Wouters, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee: “Promoting Regional Peace and Security Through Water/Energy Law and Policy – Responding to Global Challenges in Difficult Times”
Steven Weissman, Centre for Law, Energy and the Environment, University of California (Berkeley): “The California Public Utilities Commission’s Pilot Program to Explore the Nexus of Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation”
David Aladjem, Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, California: “Recycling the Process: Collaborative Interest-Based Negotiations in an Era of Climate Change”
Kathleen Callison, Law Office of Kathleen Callison, Tumwater, Washington: “Water Use in Geothermal Energy Development: Real World Challenges, Regulatory Conflicts and Barriers, and Possible Solutions”
Arlene Kwasniak, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary: “Environmental Flows and Athabasca Oil Sands Development”
Allan Ingelson, Haskayne School of Business and Faculty of Law, University of Calgary: “Coalbed Methane production and Coal Mining in the Flathead Drainage Basin – An International Transboundary Water Dispute”