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Invitation to West Coast Environmental Law’s Dialogue for Legal Innovation Series: Emerging Solutions for Clean, Green Power Dia
Posted December 21st, 2009
West Coast Environmental Law invites you to join us on Monday, January 11th, 2010, as an audience participant at a dialogue on concrete legal and policy solutions for truly clean, green, renewable electricity generation in BC.
Clean, green electricity generation has a vital role to play in the environmental and economic future of BC, but this potential can only be fulfilled if we create workable solutions to the widespread concerns about how renewable energy is currently being planned, promoted and developed in BC.
Recent events, including the SFU “Building a Vision for Green Energy” conference in November 2009, suggest that many in BC are ready to move past what has at times been a challenging and divisive debate on this topic. For this reason, West Coast Environmental Law will host the Emerging Solutions for Clean, Green Power Dialogue. The dialogue will be seeded by short presentations by West Coast Environmental Law and others to introduce and explore possible solutions for responsible, sustainable renewable electricity development. The principal focus, however, will be on a high-level facilitated dialogue among the following participants.
Moderator: Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Speakers:
- Bob Gibson, Professor and Associate Chair, Environment and Resource Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo
- Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
- Josh Paterson, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Dialogue Participants:
Gwen Barlee, Policy Director and Executive Team Member, Western Canadian Wilderness Committee
Tzeporah Berman, Executive Director, PowerUP Canada
Matt Horne, Director, BC Energy Solutions, Pembina Institute
Nicholas Heap, Climate and Energy Policy Analyst, David Suzuki Foundation
George Hoberg, Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, UBC
Paul Kariya, Executive Director of the Independent Power Producers Association
Kekinusuqs, Judith Sayers, UVIC School of Law and Business, Former Chief Hupacasath First Nation
Doug Konkin, Deputy Minster of the Environment, Government of BC
James Mack, Head, Climate Action Secretariat/Ministry of Environment, Government of BC
Cam Matheson, Director of Energy Planning, BC Hydro
Craig Orr, Executive Director, Watershed Watch
Tom Pederson, Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria
Please RSVP by January 4, 2010 to Lucia Beamish: WCEL.DialogueSeries@gmail.com
Event Logistics:
Date: January 11, 2009
Location: Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue - Asia Pacific Hall
580 West Hastings Street (enter via Seymour Street courtyard entrance)
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Cost: Admission is free but attendees are invited to make a donation to West Coast to support our work on law reform for clean, green electricity in BC: http://www.wcel.org/
For background materials please visit: http://www.wcel.org/
Sincerely,
Jessica Clogg
Executive Director & Senior Counsel
West Coast Environmental Law
West Coast Environmental Law is grateful to the Law Foundation of British Columbia, the North Growth Foundation, the Bruce and Lis Welch Community Award, as well as the SFU Centre for Dialogue for funding to make possible this event in our Dialogues for Legal Innovation Series.
Please download this Backgrounder for a REVISED, more comprehensive list of event dialogue participants/speakers.
Video clips from public dialogue on BC’s private power projects
- Rex Weyler (author, ecologist) on “Overshoot”
- Jim Abram (Strathcona Regional District)
- Gwen Barlee (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0b-3kV9-os and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qno-SsJ_gc
- Melissa Davis (BC Citizens for Public Power)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?-v=Gwsava4ou2Y
- Doug Konkin (BC Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLouNWrtDbc
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Jan 11 2010 - 6:30pm
Jan 11 2010 - 9:30pm
Speaker(s):
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West Coast Environmental Law invites you to join us on Monday, January 11th, 2010, as an audience participant at a dialogue on concrete legal and policy solutions for truly clean, green, renewable electricity generation in BC.
Clean, green electricity generation has a vital role to play in the environmental and economic future of BC, but this potential can only be fulfilled if we create workable solutions to the widespread concerns about how renewable energy is currently being planned, promoted and developed in BC.
Recent events, including the SFU “Building a Vision for Green Energy” conference in November 2009, suggest that many in BC are ready to move past what has at times been a challenging and divisive debate on this topic. For this reason, West Coast Environmental Law will host the Emerging Solutions for Clean, Green Power Dialogue. The dialogue will be seeded by short presentations by West Coast Environmental Law and others to introduce and explore possible solutions for responsible, sustainable renewable electricity development. The principal focus, however, will be on a high-level facilitated dialogue among the following participants.
Moderator: Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Speakers:
- Bob Gibson, Professor and Associate Chair, Environment and Resource Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo
- Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
- Josh Paterson, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Dialogue Participants:
Gwen Barlee, Policy Director and Executive Team Member, Western Canadian Wilderness Committee
Tzeporah Berman, Executive Director, PowerUP Canada
Matt Horne, Director, BC Energy Solutions, Pembina Institute
Nicholas Heap, Climate and Energy Policy Analyst, David Suzuki Foundation
George Hoberg, Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, UBC
Paul Kariya, Executive Director of the Independent Power Producers Association
Kekinusuqs, Judith Sayers, UVIC School of Law and Business, Former Chief Hupacasath First Nation
Doug Konkin, Deputy Minster of the Environment, Government of BC
James Mack, Head, Climate Action Secretariat/Ministry of Environment, Government of BC
Cam Matheson, Director of Energy Planning, BC Hydro
Craig Orr, Executive Director, Watershed Watch
Tom Pederson, Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria
Please RSVP by January 4, 2010 to Lucia Beamish: WCEL.DialogueSeries@gmail.com
Event Logistics:
Date: January 11, 2009
Location: Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue - Asia Pacific Hall
580 West Hastings Street (enter via Seymour Street courtyard entrance)
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Cost: Admission is free but attendees are invited to make a donation to West Coast to support our work on law reform for clean, green electricity in BC: http://www.wcel.org/
For background materials please visit: http://www.wcel.org/
Sincerely,
Jessica Clogg
Executive Director & Senior Counsel
West Coast Environmental Law
West Coast Environmental Law is grateful to the Law Foundation of British Columbia, the North Growth Foundation, the Bruce and Lis Welch Community Award, as well as the SFU Centre for Dialogue for funding to make possible this event in our Dialogues for Legal Innovation Series.
Please download this Backgrounder for a REVISED, more comprehensive list of event dialogue participants/speakers.
Video clips from public dialogue on BC’s private power projects
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0b-3kV9-os and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qno-SsJ_gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?-v=Gwsava4ou2Y
Location:
Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue - Asia Pacific Hall580 West Hastings Street (enter via Seymour Street courtyard entrance)
Presenting Organization(s)/Group(s):
West Coast Environmental Law
Sponsoring Organization(s)/Group(s):
West Coast Environmental Law