INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DEBATE
"Social and environmental aspects of shale gas exploitation"
March 26, Tuesday
Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw
3:00-6:00 pm, hall 102

The Regional Geography Department of The Faculty Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw has a pleasure to invite you to international Student’s Debate: Social and Environmental Aspects of Shale Gas. Invited guests will present the perspective of countries with these unconventional gas resources and taking up the challenges of geological exploration and exploitation. Invited speakers will cover aspects of the economic benefits and the consequences at the regional and local scale. The working language of the Debate will be English and Polish.

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15:00 - 15:15 Welcome and Introduction by the Deputy Dean for Personnel Affairs and International Relations, Marcin Solarz, Ph.D. and a Student - Justyna Kacperska

Keynote speech

3:15 - 3:35 p.m. Dorota Rucińska, Ph.D, WGiSR UW Shale gas - the potential, opportunities, and threats.

3:35 - 3:55 p.m.  Rafal Miland, Deputy Director of the Department of Geology and Geological Concessions of the Ministry of Environment, The role of the Ministry of Environment in the process of exploration and unconventional hydrocarbons.

3:55 - 4:15 p.m. Bradford Bell, First Secretary of the Political and Economic Section at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Unconventional Gas Development - an American Perspective.

4:15 - 4:35 p.m. Anna Święcka, Corporate Affairs Advisor Talisman Energy Poland, Experience and perspective of Canadian investors.

4:35 - 4:55 p.m. Mec. Maciej Józwiak, Law Firm Eversheds, Amendment of the Act - Mining and Geological Law, and the Law on the taxation of hydrocarbon production as the legal regime for shale gas market in Poland.

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4:55 p.m. (4:45) Opening discussion

5:45 p.m. Closing remarks by Justyna Kacperska