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Non-renewable Natural Resources in Federations

The Forum of Federations proposes to conduct an initial scoping project to collate base-line or scoping information on oil and gas arrangements and issues in selected federations. 

Given the complexity of these issues, the Forum proposes to engage experts knowledgeable about the oil and gas arrangements in each of the federations studied with a view to having them answer a series of questions about their respective countries. The objective is to have completed country reports by the end of March, 2009.  Once the initial papers are complete, the Forum will consider, in consultation with potential partners and the authors contributing to the project, what further work might be done in this area.  This staged approach is being adopted as a way to help define what might be the most promising issues for focus in further work.  It is expected that the next stages of the project will involve one or more workshops or conferences, as well as an eventual publication.  Eleven countries have been selected for the initial phase: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, the United States, and Venezuela.

Collaborators

• Argentina: Juan Antonio Zapata, University of Mendoza
• Australia: Michael Crommelin, University of Melbourne
• Brazil: Helder Q. Pinto Junior
• Canada: André Plourde, University of Alberta
• India:
  • Ligia Noronha, Director, Resources and Global Security, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
  • Nidhi Srivastava
• Malaysia: Wee Chong Hui, Professor  Universiti Teknologi MARA
• Mexico: Victor Carreon, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
  • Juan Rosellon, Visiting Researcher, Dpt. of Business Management and Economics, Dresden University of Technology
• Nigeria: Wumi Iledare, Director, Energy Information Division, Louisiana State University
• Russia:
  • Galina Kurlyandskaya, Centre for Fiscal Policy
  • Mikhail Subbotin, Russia, Director, PSA-Expertise, Advisor, Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources
• USA:
  • Peter Mieszkowski, Rice University
  • Ronald Soligo, Rice University
• Venezuela:
  • Francisco J. Monaldi, Director, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)
  • Osmel Manzano, Senior Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Jose Manuel Puente, Professor of Economics, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)
  • Stephanie Vitale, Researcher, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)

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