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Energy Independence:
Challenges Facing the West in Adopting
Alternative and Renewable Energy Resources
April 9, 2010
Boise City Hall - City Council Chambers
150 N. Capitol Boulevard
Boise, Idaho
The 2010 Idaho Law
Review Symposium will bring together an
interdisciplinary panel of legal,
scientific, and business experts to discuss
issues related to the sustainable
development of alternative and renewable
energy sources in the west.
Topics will
include: (1) the impacts that energy
regulation and environmental laws have on
the development of alternative energy
sources, (2) the challenges faced in the
transmission and transportation of renewable
energy, and (3) how new energy sources can
be used to create sustainable communities.
The 2010 Idaho Law
Review Symposium will continue the tradition
of bringing together a select group of
scholars and professionals for an informed
interdisciplinary discussion centered on a
topic of growing national importance. By
exposing members of the academic, business,
technological, and legal communities to
diverse viewpoints and multifaceted
experiences, our goal is to provide a forum
for open discourse which will provide
participants with valuable information
applicable to their own business and legal
situations.
5.5 Idaho CLE credits are offered,
see registration information below
Schedule
9:00am
– 9:15am:
Introduction
Graham Cease
and Katie Murdock, Law Review Symposium
Editors
Lee Dillion, College of Law Associate Dean
of Boise Operations
9:15am
– 10:15am:
Alternative and
Renewable Energy Sources – The Applicable
Legal
Framework
This panel
will provide an overview of the different
alternative and renewable energy sources
being developed in Idaho and the West—and
then examine—in greater detail, their
economic, social, and environmental impacts.
Review the pertinent laws and regulations
that will have a significant impact on the
development of these energy sources.
Panelists:
Erika Eaton Malmen, Perkins Coie
Robert Nielson, Center for Advanced Energy
Studies
Teresa Hill, Stoel Rives
10:15am
– 10:30am:
Break
10:30am
– 12:00pm:
The Environmental/Energy Law
Intersection
This panel
will cover the impacts that environmental
laws have on the development of alternative
energy sources. Moreover, this panel will
explore the divide between environmental and
energy law, and the possibilities of a
merger between the two fields.
Panelists:
Sandra Snodgrass, Holland and Hart
Hadassah Reimer, Holland and Hart
Amy Wildermuth, University of Utah S.J.
Quinney College of Law Professor
Lincoln Davies, University of Utah S.J.
Quinney College of Law Professor
12:00pm-
1:15pm:
Lunch
& Keynote Address by Attorney General
Lawrence Wasden
1:15pm
– 2:45pm:
Transmission and Waste Management Issues
With the
development of these new energy sources,
transmission and waste management issues
arise. This panel will take a look at the
laws that impact these issues and examine
solutions to actual and potential
transmission and waste management problems.
Panelists:
James Holtkamp, Holland and Hart
Dr. David Solan, Boise State University
Energy Policy Institute
Marta Adams, Deputy Attorney General, State
of Nevada
2:45pm-
3:00pm:
Break
3:00pm
– 4:30pm:
Sustainability
As our
country begins to develop these new energy
sources, how do we create sustainable
communities with these sources? This panel
will look at current statutes and common law
and examine how these laws may impede or
assist in creating sustainable communities
with these alternative energy sources.
Panelists:
Dr. Jerrold Long, University of Idaho
College of Law Professor
Dr. Robert Smith, University of Idaho
Associate Vice-President
Michael Robinson-Dorn, University of
Washington College of Law Professor
Kelsey Nunez, Givens Pursley
Important Symposium Links:
Registration Mail-in Form
On-line Registration
Sponsorship Opportunities
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