67th Annual Institute: Energy Transition and Mining - Reconciling the Growth of Renewable Energy with the Need for New Mineral Development
This presentation examines the growing need for transition minerals and potential responses. It evaluates the economic, security, human rights, and social impacts of relying on mineral imports to meet developed nations’ domestic renewable energy goals; the legal and political challenges associated with new North American mines that may undermine energy transition goals; potential solutions to encourage responsible sourcing; growing expectations for sustainability in international mining; and the role of new technology and recycling opportunities.
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67th Annual Institute: America's Public Lands - A Look Back and Ahead
This presentation examines themes developed in the presenter’s comprehensive political history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground (Yale University Press, forthcoming late 2021 or early 2022), as well as contemporary political and other conditions, and lays out possible futures.
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67th Annual Institute: The Modern Day Gold Rush: The Race for Helium and Why You Should Care
This presentation discusses exploration and production issues related to helium, including where helium accumulates, exploration tools used to find helium, how helium is produced and why the helium market is so unstable. The presentation also examines the legislative framework governing helium (including federal statutes and regulations) and will discuss lease issues that arise in connection with helium exploration and production.
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Wind Development on Federal Lands: What We've Learned and Where We're Headed
This panel discussion provides an overview of the leasing of federal lands for the development of wind energy projects, including the key regulatory requirements that developers should be aware of as they explore potential areas of development.
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Carbon Capture: Federal and State Legislative Updates and Emerging Policy
This expert panel discusses the overview of regulatory federalism applied to CCUS transportation and storage projects, current and pending federal legislation including the SCALE Act and Energy Act of 2020, overview of Section 45Q tax credit, state regulation of CCUS projects, and legal and regulatory opportunities and constraints.
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Current Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation
The panel addresses oil and gas royalty dispute litigation, including a look at key case law from specific jurisdiction to illustrate the range of approaches taken by various states, sometimes resulting in different interpretations or applications of similar royalty clause language.
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Water Law Institute: Renewable Energy and Water
This presentation provides an overview of the relationship between renewable energy generation and water supply, a specific form of the energy-water nexus. Speaker Janet Neuman explores how renewable sources of energy generation use water and how their water demand and energy benefits differ from traditional carbon-based energy production.
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Water Law Institute: Colorado River Basin Management Update
This panel of experts provides a current view of the Upper Basin and Lower Basin perspectives, and tribal involvement as parties continue cooperative dialog in the very serious drought and declining hydrograph of the Colorado River Basin.
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Petroleum Marketing Practices Act 101
This webinar provides an overview of the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (“PMPA”) and how it impacts business relationships. Given by practitioners with extensive experience drafting PMPA contracts, advising on a wide range of PMPA issues, and litigating PMPA disputes, this presentation provides new practitioners a better understanding of the PMPA, and acts as a refresher for seasoned practitioners.
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Ethics for Transactional Attorneys: Identifying the Client in Multi-Party Transactions
This presentation and the presenters focus on identifying the client in multi-party transactions, with a focus on those frequently encountered in the oil and gas sector.
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The Department of the Interior in a Time of Transition: The Future of Oil and Gas Leasing, Public Lands, and Wildlife Law
This expert panel discusses the Department of the Interior transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration. This discussion focuses on the current and changing regulatory landscape that affects oil and gas leasing and development, public lands (including the Outer Continental Shelf), and wildlife. The panelists will attempt to forecast future legal challenges and regulatory efforts going forward.
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Recent Developments in Oil and Gas Law
The panel discusses 2020 case law, regulatory, and other legal developments in oil and gas in the United States.
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Consequences of the Biden Administration on U.S. Climate and Energy Policy and Implications for the Global Extractives Sector
This expert panel of international policy forecasters addresses implications of the Biden administration’s policies on the climate and energy and what those policies mean for global extractives development and trade and international climate agreements.
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67th Annual Institute: Oil and Gas Law Update - Louisiana and the East
This Oil and Gas Law Update summarizes the key legislative, administrative, and judicial developments in oil and gas law in Appalachia and Louisiana since the 2020 Annual Institute.
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Energy Storage Technology and Regulatory Implications for Renewable Energy Power Supply
The expert panel cover the basics of electric energy storage technologies, recent and expected trends in costs of and incorporation of energy storage in utility systems, and legal and regulatory opportunities and constraints.
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Mining Law Institute: ESG Considerations, Stakeholder Engagement, and Lessons Learned
This presentation focuses on the development of technological tools to compile and track ESG information and examines the role ESG considerations have played in stakeholder engagement, permitting, and project finance with respect to recent projects permitted on Native Corporation and federal lands in the United States.
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Greenhouse Gas Regulation: A Groundbreaking Oil and Gas Rule in Colorado
To meet the statutory mandates, in December 2021 the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) adopted a novel regulatory program that will ratchet down Colorado operators’ Greenhouse Gas Intensity (emissions/production) over time, along with other traditional command and control regulations covering aspects of both the upstream and midstream sectors. This GHG “intensity-plus” program represents an innovative, nation-leading approach that will undoubtedly influence other state and federal policy makers as they look for new ways to decarbonize economies. This expert panel reviews the GHG intensity-plus rules and discusses how they will work, why they are important, and how they may relate to your company’s ongoing ESG and other GHG reduction efforts.
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Winter Storm Uri and the Texas Power Outages: Lessons Learned and Legislative Responses
Our expert speakers provide an overview of the forensic analysis of what happened leading up to and during the historic Texas power outages and the lessons to be learned from Winter Storm Uri. The presenters also provide a detailed summary of the comprehensive legislative reforms passed by the Texas legislature in response to the storm and the regulatory and market reforms already underway at the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
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The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law is a collaborative, educational, non-profit organization dedicated to the scholarly and practical study of the laws and regulations relating to natural resources and energy, including oil and gas, mining, renewable energy, public lands, water, environmental protection, and international law. Through our educational programs, we bring together lawyers, landmen, managers, consultants, government personnel, law faculty, students, and others involved in the practice, work, and study of natural resources and energy law.
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