NRLC Events
Upcoming Events
June 6-8, 2012: Martz Annual Summer Conference
A Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West
The future of the planet may depend upon on our ability to increase energy supplies even as we reduce carbon emissions. This conference addresses how a low-carbon energy program might evolve with a particular focus on the American West.
View the Conference Program (current as of May 17, 2012)
Other Conference Information
• Hotel Accomodations
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Past Events
Click here for a list of all past conferences and events (pdf). Downloadable reference material is available in the Online Library (a searchable database).
HOT TOPIC: Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27, 2012)
Oil and gas development and hydraulic fracturing have received enormous attention over the past few years, and most of that attention has focused on the potential impacts of such development on water quality. However, the potential impacts on air quality from oil and gas development have received far less public and media attention and discussion. This two-hour program assessed the current scientific knowledge, regulatory requirements and policies regarding the impacts on air quality from oil and gas development and address current initiatives at the state and national levels to further regulate and control those impacts.
Order of Presentations:
- John Imse, Hydrogeologist, ENVIRON International Corporation -- overview of the current methods for developing a shale play and the typical site operations.
- Presentation: Unconventional Gas and Oil – Potential Air Emissions (pdf)
- Debra Kaden, Toxicologist, ENVIRON International Corporation -- air concentrations of chemicals of potential health concern surrounding oil and gas development activities, as well as temporal and spatial patterns of these chemicals in the ambient environment. Such information is necessary to evaluate possible health impacts of the drilling process on air in surrounding communities.
- Presentation: Hydrofracking: Air Issues and Community Exposure (pdf)
- Lance Astrella, Attorney, Astrella Law, PC -- landowner's concerns and experiences regarding air pollution in areas of high exploration and production activity, and industry practices to reduce landowner opposition and potential liability.
- No PowerPoint Presentation
- Paul Tourangeau, Assistant General Counsel, DCP Midstream, LP and former Director, Colorado Air Pollution Control Division -- regulatory requirements and policies related to air emissions from the oil and gas sector, including recent and current initiatives at the state and federal level.
- Presentation: Air Quality: Oil and Gas Development (pdf)
- John Jacus, Partner, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP -- recent litigation aimed at oil and gas development activities with respect to air emissions impacts, and also several recent and ongoing studies and ambient monitoring efforts focused upon air emissions from oil and gas activities.
Moderator: Mark Squillace, Director, Natural Resources Law Center
Click here to view the video of the conference
Schultz Distinguished Lecture (October 19, 2011)
Dr. Dan Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winner and chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates presented, "The Quest: the Future of Energy"
Martz Annual Conference: Navigating the Future of the Colorado River
(June 8-10, 2011)
Conference PowerPoints
June 9, 2010
Doug Kenney: Introduction - Colorado River 2005-2010
Panel A: Terry Fulp | Holly Hartman |
Panel B: no PowerPoint presentations
Panel C: Steve Fitten | Jennifer Gimbel | Mario Lopez Perez
Panel D: Doug Kenney | Sarah Bates
June 10, 2010
Panel E: Joe Feller | Robert Adler
Panel F: Sarah Bates | Bonnie Colby | Robert Wigington | Eric Kuhn | Les Lampe
Panel G: Larry Macdonnell
Speaker Handouts
Sarah Bates | Lynn Scarlett | Drew Beckwith | Les Lampe | Larry MacDonnell | Robert Wigington
Conference Follow-up:
Red Lodge Clearinghouse:
- U.S./Mexico relations, the Compact and towing icebergs at the Colorado River conference
High Country News:
- Pulse of the river
- Where's the conservation?
- Rare accord marks opening of Colorado River conference
The Colorado Independent:
- Water shortages in the West: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’
Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC): Past and Present (April 6, 2011)
Presented by Alexandra L. Davis, Former Director of IBCC negotiations and current Assistant Director of Water for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources . HOT TOPIC co-sponsored by the Natural Resources Law Center and the Colorado Bar Association-Water Law Section
Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Australia (February 14, 2011)
A Conversation with Water Management Representatives from Colorado and Australia
Will Fargher, Australian National Water Commission (Presentation [pdf])
Chris Arnott, Managing Director and founder of Alluvium Consulting (Presentation [pdf])
Schultz Distinguished Lecture (December 2, 2010)
Kristina M. Johnson, Former U.S. Under Secretary of Energy,
“Addressing the Nation’s Energy Challenges”
Shale Plays in the Intermountain West: Legal & Policy Issues
(November 12, 2010)
Symposium Materials
Cover | Agenda | Speaker Biographies | Video Archive
Symposium Presentations
Michelle Michot Foss - The Here and Now of U.S. Natural Gas
Richard Nehring - Transforming and Disrupting: Shale Gas and Oil in U.S. Energy Supply (ppt)
Randy Udall, Commentator - Presentation (ppt)
John Curtis - U.S. Shale Gas: Resources, Reserves and $$$ (ppt)
Will Fleckenstein - Shale Drilling and Completions (ppt)
Bruce Kramer - Pooling for Horizontal Wells: Can They Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
Judy Jordan - Water & Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources (ppt)
Katy Dunlap - Development of Shale: Water Resource Concerns & Policy Considerations
Jeremy Nichols - Shale and Air Quality: The View from the Other Side (ppt)
John C. Martin - Evolving Policy on Shale Plays (ppt)
Martz Annual Conference - The Past, Present, and Future of Our Public Lands: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Public Lands Law Review Commission’s Report: One Third of the Nation's Lands (June 2010)
Conference Details
Presentation Synopses | Speaker Information| Moderators, Panelists & Speakers
KBDI 12 debate with the Natural Resources Law Center Director, Mark Squillace:
http://lawweb.colorado.edu/events/mediaDetails.jsp?id=2502
Conference Presentations
Bernhardt, David - "Chapter 7 of the Commission Report"
Burke, Marcilynn - "Celebrating FLPMA: Land Use Planning at the BLM"
Cables, Rick - "Forest Service Planning at a Crossroads; New Approaches to Old Recommendations"
Feller, Joe - "Livestock Grazing on the Public Lands"
Gheleta, Mike - "Water Management on Public Lands -- Chapter 8 of the PLLRC Report"
Glicksman, Robert - "Climate Change Adaptation and the Federal Lands"
Groene, Scott - "America's Redrock Wilderness"
James, Norm - "The Mexican Spotted Owl Controversy"
Morgan, Ann - "The Evolution of Planning on Public Lands"
Myers, William - "Grazing on the Public Lands"
Power, Tom - "Why Public Lands? A Question Not Addressed 40 Years Ago"
Rasband, Jim - "Second Thoughts About the Antiquitites Act: Does the Process for Public Land Decision-making Have an Ethical Dimension?"
Saunders, Stephen - "Climate Change and Public Lands: Examples from Natonal Parks"
The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale (February 5, 2010)
News
NRLC Oil Shale event discussed in LA Times (2-10-10)
Conference Presentations
Bartis, James T. - "Costs and Benefits of Oil Shale Development Bernhardt, David - "The Promise & Peril of Oil Shale: Federal Law & Policy"
Birch, Daniel R. - "Oil Shale Water Needs, State Water Planning and the Colorado River Compact"
Boak, Jeremy, Dr. - "Impacts of Oil Shale on Carbon Emissions"
Burnham, Alan K., PhD. - "The Logistics and Energy Needs of Oil Shale Extraction"
Harding, Benjamin - "Energy Development Water Needs Assessment and Water Supply Alternatives Analysis"
Huntley, Chase - "Promise or Peril? Shale Oil, Energy, and the Region"
Limerick, Patty - "The History of Oil Shale Development & What it Means for the Future"
Miller, Bart - "Water for Oil (Shale)?"
Tupper, Mike - "The Peril of Energy Usage" Udall, Randy - PowerPoint presentation
Vawter, Glenn - "The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale; Costs and Benefits of Development"
Conference Readings
CO comments to BLM on RDD Round II
Ritter-Comments on BLM Oil Shale Regs
http://ceri-mines.org/oilshaleresearch: Colorado Energy Research Institute oil shale research, including links to the full proceedings of the 26th, 27th, and 28th Oil Shale Symposia
"Economies of Shale" - Alan Best
Conference News Articles
08-13-08; "The Promise and Peril of Shale Oil"; New West Network.
08-09; "USGS adds environmental impacts to its energy resource evaluations"; PennEnergy.com
08-06-09; "Oil shale and its not-so-repetitive past"; Headwaters News
10-21-09; "Oil Shale, Greenhouse Gas, and Federal Lands"; Legalplanet.wordpress.com
11-03-09; "51,685 commenters weigh in on BLM's oil-shale lease plans"; GJSentinel.com
11-09-09; "Let Me Get A Big 'Shale, Yeah'"; The Wall Street Journal
30th Annual Martz Summer Conference: Western Water Law, Policy, and Management: Ripples Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry (June 3-5, 2009)
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
Robert Anderson - "Indian Water Rights"
Sarah Bates - "Opportunities: Softer Paths?"
Craig Bell - "Challenges for Reclamation: a Western States’ Perspective"
Kay Brothers - "Status of Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA): Third Intake Into Lake Mead and Groundwater Project"
Rick Cables - "Water Towers in the Balance Time for a New Water Project"
Don Carlson - "Opportunities: Hard, Soft, and Mixed Pathways: Northern Integrated Supply Project; Northern Front Range – Colorado"
Bonnie Colby - "Regional Energy-Water Resilience Under Climate Change"
Amanda Cronin - "Market Based Stream Flow Restoration and Mitigation"
Mike Gheleta - "Groundwater Law and Administration: From Conflict to Reform"
Robert Glennon - "Unquenchable"
Chris Goemans - "Economic Incentives for Demand Reduction"
Stephen Gray - "Climate Change and the Death of Stationarity: A New Era for Western Water?"
Katharine Jacobs - "Groundwater Declines, Climate Change and Approaches to Adaptation"
Melinda Kassen - "Finding Flows: Fish Still Need Water Every Day"
Larry MacDonnell - "Next Evolutionary Steps in State Instream Flow Programs"
Steve Malloch - "Water Footprints: Consciousness Raising Meets Risk Management"
Bart Miller - "Oil Shale Water Use: Upsetting the Apple-cart of River Habitat, Irrigation and Existing Water Rights?"
Jim Murphy - "Rapanos and the Courts: Navigating Through the Fog"
Peter Nichols - "Water Leasing in the Lower Arkansas Valley: the 'Super Ditch Company'”
Jennifer Pitt - "Transboundary Solutions: A Water Trust, Policy, and Environmental Flows for the Colorado River Delta"
Adam Schempp - "Modifying Prior Appropriation: The Spectrum of Experiences"
Mark Squillace - "Rethinking Western Water Law Restoring the Public Interest in Western Water Law"
William Travis - "Agricultural Resilience and Urban Growth: A Closer Look"
Robert Wilkinson - "Integrated Policy, Planning, and Management of Water Resources"
Leo Winternitz - "Delta Overview"
The University of Colorado Law School and the Natural Resource Law Center presents: Shultz Distinguished Lecturer, James E. Rogers, Duke Energy President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. (September 10, 2009)
"A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY FOR THE 21st CENTURY"
Jim Rogers of Duke Energy—the 3rd largest electric utility holding company in the nation and the 3rd largest emitter of carbon dioxide—will discuss how a comprehensive energy policy could help solve our major energy, economic and environmental challenges.
29th Annual Martz Summer Conference -
Shifting Baselines & Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West
(June 4-6, 2008)
Conference Details
Agenda | Conference | Accommodations
Conference Presentations
Sarah Bates - "Bridging the Governance Gap: Straegies to Integrate Water and Land Use Planning"
Gary Bryner - "The Future of Energy: What are the major projections for the U.S. Energy Future, and What are the Implications for the West?"
Jim Holway - "The Urbanizing West: Limits to Water, Limits to Growth"
Doug Larson - "Fuel Choice Determines Transmission"
Alice Madden - "Living With Limits in the West"
Wendy McDermott - "Incorporating Community Values of Sustainability into Resource Management: The Red Lady Case Study"
Janet Neuman - "Beyond Rethinking: Redoing Western Water Law"
J Michael Scott - "Threats to Biological Diversity: Global, Continental, Local"
Mark Squillace - "Rethinking Western Water Law Whatever Happened to the Public Interest?"
Jonathan Thompson - "Paying the Price For Power: When L.A. Turns On the Lights, Northwestern New Mexico Feels It."
Conference Papers
Reed D. Benson - "Rethinking Western Water Law: Instream Flows"
Jim Holway - "The Urbanizing West: Limits to Water, Limits to Growth; “Linking Growth, Land Use and Water”'
Doug Larson - "Fuel Choice Determines Transmission Requirements"
Lora A. Lucero - "Recent Developments in Land Use, Planning and Zoning Law: Connecting Land, Water, and Growth"
Wendy McDermott - "Shifting Baselines & New Meridians – Water, Resources, Landscapes & the Transformation of the American West"
Shaun McGrath - “Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future”
J. Michael Scott - "Recovery of Imperiled Species Under the Endangered Species Act: The Need For a New Approach"
Jerd Smith - "New Rules for an Old River"
28th Annual Summer Conference (June 6-8, 2007)
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
Cassamassa - "Forest and Rangeland Planning, NEPA Analysis and Decisions"
Cheever - "Forests and Grasslands"
Mike Chiropolos - "The Future of Oil & Gas Development on Federal Lands"
Joe Feller - "NEPA and Public Participation in Grazing Management on Federal Public Lands: The 40-Year Struggle"
Sharon Friedman - "The Roadless Rules and the Roles of States and Communities" Mary Viviano - "The Future of Mineral Development on Federal Lands in the United States: A Case Study of the Roan Plateau Area"
Tim Randle - "Elwha River Restoration Project"
ames R. Rasband - "What’s In a Name? The Story of the Utah Wilderness Reinventory"
William H. Rodgers, Jr. - "Dam Building and Removal on the Elwha: A Prototype of Adaptive Mismanagement and a Tribal Opportunity"
J. B. Ruhl - "The Future Public Law of Private Ecosystems"
Mark Squillace - "Meaningful Engagement – The Public’s Role in Resource Decisions"
Dr. William R. Travis - "Socio-demogrpahic Trends: Land Use Trends - Climate Change"
Wharton - "Native American Rights Fund"
Conference Papers
Russell W. Busch - "Justice Delayed: A Tribal Attorney’s Perspective On Elwha
River Dan Removal and Ecosystem Restoration"
Sally K. Fairfax - "Historical Evolution and Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy: The Beginning of An Argument And Some Modest Predictions"
Robert L. Fischman - "Federalism and Natural Resources Policy"
Eric T. Freyfogle - "Private Rights and Collective Governance: A Functional Approach to Natural Resources Law"
J. Gregg Hobbs - "A Decade of Colorado Supreme Court Water Decisions: 1996-2006"
Robert B. Keiter - "Saving Special Places: Trends and Challenges with Protecting Public Lands"
Alexandra B. Klass - "The Growing Influence of Tort and Property Law On Natural Resources Law: Case Studies of Coal Bed Methane Development and Geologic Carbon Sequestration"
Leshy - "The Future of Mineral Development on Federal Lands in the United States"
Jim May - "Constitutional Environmental and Natural Resources Law"
John Copeland Nagle - "The Role of Case Studies in Natural Resources Law"
James R. Rasband - "What's In a Name? The Story of the Utah Wilderness Reinventory"
J. B. Ruhl - "The Future Public Law of Private Ecosystems: Merging a Mantra, a Metric, and a Method"
Karin P. Sheldon - "Some Preliminary Thoughts On Contrasts and
Convergence in Environmental and Natural Resoures Law"
A. Dan Tarlock - "Currents in Water Resources Law and Policy: How is “Prior” Coping with New Stresses?"
Dr. William R. Travis - "Sources of Stress and the Changing Context of Natural Resources Law and Policy in the New West"
27th Annual Summer Conference - Climate Change and the Future of the American West (June 7-9, 2006)
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
