Event Date: January 22, 2013 - 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: FSS4007, University of Ottawa, 120 University, Ottawa

Panel discussion with JOSEPH DUKERT, Center for Strategic and International Studies, JOHN R. DILLON, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and MONICA GATTINGER, University of Ottawa.

Moderated by STEPHEN BLANK, Visiting Fulbright Researcher in Governance and Public Administration, University of Ottawa.

Presented by the Center on Governance, the Institute of the Environment and CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is not required.

Energy policy and politics in North America are being reshaped by game-changing developments: vast shale gas and shale oil reserves brought on stream thanks to hydraulic fracturing; increasingly vocal opposition to energy infrastructure projects like Keystone XL and Northern Gateway; growing awareness of security threats to “smart” energy networks, and the like. Canadians, Americans and Mexicans are talking about national “energy strategies” and energy “independence”. What are the prospects and possibilities for such ideas? Are there areas where the countries could be working together?

Joseph Dukert is a senior associate with the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Dukert has been an International Energy Agency consultant, senior adviser to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and has worked with various US government agencies on energy policies. Dukert served as president of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and is the author of Energy (Greenwood, 2008).

John Dillon is Vice President, Policy and Corporate Counsel, with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. He has represented the interests of Canada’s business leaders on a wide range of major Canadian and international environmental issues and initiatives, including the Rio Earth Summit, the Kyoto Protocol, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and the environmental side agreement to the NAFTA.  For several years he served as a business representative on the Canadian delegation dealing with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. As part of his work on the environment and sustainable development, he currently chairs an informal industry coalition that aims to positively influence government policy related to climate change and air quality.

Monica Gattinger is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Political Studies. Her research explores the influence of North American economic integration on domestic and cross-border public policy, administration and governance, with particular reference to the energy sector. She is co-author with G. Bruce Doern of Power Switch: Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and co-editor with Geoffrey Hale of Borders and Bridges: Canada’s Policy Relations in North America (Oxford University Press, 2010).