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Mining Legislation And Mineral Development In Zambia, Muna Ndulo Dec 2014

Mining Legislation And Mineral Development In Zambia, Muna Ndulo

Muna B Ndulo

No abstract provided.


The Requirement Of Domestic Participation In New Mining Ventures In Zambia, Muna Ndulo Dec 2014

The Requirement Of Domestic Participation In New Mining Ventures In Zambia, Muna Ndulo

Muna B Ndulo

No abstract provided.


Mineral Taxation In Zambia, Muna Ndulo Dec 2014

Mineral Taxation In Zambia, Muna Ndulo

Muna B Ndulo

No abstract provided.


Symposium The International Legal Regime For Antarctica: Introduction, John J. Barceló Iii Dec 2014

Symposium The International Legal Regime For Antarctica: Introduction, John J. Barceló Iii

John J. Barceló III

No abstract provided.


Renegotiating Investment Contracts: The Case Of Mining Contracts In Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Lukanda F. Kapwadi Oct 2014

Renegotiating Investment Contracts: The Case Of Mining Contracts In Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Lukanda F. Kapwadi

Francky Lukanda

This article examines the issue of renegotiating an existing investment contract which does not provide for renegotiation clause. A prevailing theory in this respect asserts that a claim for renegotiating an existing agreement which contains no renegotiation clause should be disregarded as it amounts to an undue interference. This article addresses the question whether a contract concluded with unelected government or leaders of military factions in contravention to prevalent laws should escape revision. In particular, it assesses the rules and principles pertaining to renegotiation of an existing agreement against the Congolese process of renegotiation which involved over sixty mining contracts.


Oil & Gas Pooling, Gina Warren Sep 2014

Oil & Gas Pooling, Gina Warren

Gina Warren

No abstract provided.


Sustaining An Unsustainable Fuel Source: How Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Limitations Can Improve The Sustainability Of The Tar Oil Industry, Brittany Debord Sep 2014

Sustaining An Unsustainable Fuel Source: How Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Limitations Can Improve The Sustainability Of The Tar Oil Industry, Brittany Debord

Brittany DeBord

The United States seeks to achieve energy security and self-sufficiency by acquiring energy from Canadian tar sands and promoting a domestic tar sands industry. However, support for this industry is inconsistent with the greenhouse gas reduction policies of the Energy Independence and Security Act and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, since tar oil extraction creates three times more carbon emissions than conventional oil extraction. Legislation limiting lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions has already been implemented through the Renewable Fuel Standard Program in response to concerns that plant-based fuel production leads to greater carbon emissions than intended. Since the lifecycle …


U.S. Shale Production And Lessons Learned, Gina Warren Jul 2014

U.S. Shale Production And Lessons Learned, Gina Warren

Gina Warren

No abstract provided.


The Role Provincial Governmental Units Can Play Regarding Oil And Gas Development Agreements In The Kurdish North: Allocation Of Iraqi Constitutional Power, Rex Zedalis Jul 2014

The Role Provincial Governmental Units Can Play Regarding Oil And Gas Development Agreements In The Kurdish North: Allocation Of Iraqi Constitutional Power, Rex Zedalis

Rex Zedalis

No abstract provided.


Recent Oil Contracts With Iraqi Kurdish Authorities: Are They Legally Valid, Rex Zedalis Jul 2014

Recent Oil Contracts With Iraqi Kurdish Authorities: Are They Legally Valid, Rex Zedalis

Rex Zedalis

No abstract provided.


The Durability Of Private Claims To Public Property, Bruce R. Huber Jun 2014

The Durability Of Private Claims To Public Property, Bruce R. Huber

Bruce R Huber

Property rights and resource use are closely related. Scholarly inquiry about their relation, however, tends to emphasize private property arrangements while ignoring public property — property formally owned by government. The well-known tragedies of the commons and anticommons, for example, are generally analyzed with reference to the optimal form and degree of private ownership. But what about property owned by the state? The federal government alone owns nearly one-third of the land area of the United States. One could well ask: is there a tragedy associated with public property, too? If there is, here is what it might look like: …


A Response To The Major Arguments Against Shale Gas Development Using Hydraulic Fracturing, Monika Ehrman Feb 2014

A Response To The Major Arguments Against Shale Gas Development Using Hydraulic Fracturing, Monika Ehrman

Monika U. Ehrman

No abstract provided.


The Next Great Compromise: A Comprehensive Response To Opposition Against Shale Gas Development Using Hydraulic Fracturing In The United States, Monika Ehrman Dec 2013

The Next Great Compromise: A Comprehensive Response To Opposition Against Shale Gas Development Using Hydraulic Fracturing In The United States, Monika Ehrman

Monika U. Ehrman

By 2015, the United States is poised to overtake the world’s current top producer of natural gas, Russia, due to the abundance of American shale gas, located in plays such as the now-familiar Marcellus Shale, which encompasses parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and certain Appalachian states and the Barnett Shale, located in North Texas. The recent rise in shale gas development is due mostly to the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (also referred to as fracing, fracking, and hydrofracking) technologies. The combination of these separate, but established, technologies allows for economic shale gas production. This Article describes these …


Lights Out In The Bakken: An Analysis Of Flaring Regulation And Its Potential Effect On North Dakota Shale Oil Production Dec 2013

Lights Out In The Bakken: An Analysis Of Flaring Regulation And Its Potential Effect On North Dakota Shale Oil Production

Monika U. Ehrman

The prolific escalation of activity in the Bakken is due to the relatively recent technological combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, coupled with high commodity prices. This requisite combination of technology and price permits economic hydrocarbon production of shale reservoirs. The resulting ramp up in shale production has propelled the United States to the top position as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. But with this increase in production is a corresponding increase in environmental concerns. Foremost among these concerns is the rise in greenhouse gas (“GHG”) and volatile organic compound (“VOC”) emissions. The majority of …


Public Lands And The Federal Government’S Compact-Based “Duty To Dispose”: A Case Study Of Utah’S H.B. 148 – The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2013

Public Lands And The Federal Government’S Compact-Based “Duty To Dispose”: A Case Study Of Utah’S H.B. 148 – The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Recent legislation passed in March 2012 in the State of Utah — the “Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study,” (“TPLA”) also commonly referred to as House Bill 148 (“H.B. 148”) — has demanded that the federal government, by December 31, 2014, “extinguish title” to certain public lands that the federal government currently holds (totaling an estimated more than 20 million acres). It also calls for the transfer of such acreage to the State and establishes procedures for the development of a management regime for this increased state portfolio of land holdings resulting from the transfer. The State of …