Bellona Foundation

The Bellona ONS Seminar - Petroholic Rehab

The biennal conference ONS in Stavanger will be held August 24-27, 2010. Bellona will be present, and we are also holding our own Bellona ONS seminar on Monday, August 23. The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, CCS and fossil subsidies are among the topics that will be adressed.

The Bellona ONS Seminar
Petroholic Rehab
Monday, August 23 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (registration from 3:15 p.m.)
Hall Toll, Skansengaten 2 (in Vågen), Stavanger, Norway

If you have not already signed up, send an E-mail to: konferanse@bellona.no

Norway is a petroholic nation, which depends largely on oil, a fossil and polluting energy source that is soon exhausted. With the Deepwater Horizon-disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as a tragic reminder of how risky oil exploitation is, Bellona suggests rehabilitation for all petroholics.

Seminar programme:

15:15 - Registration and sandwiches

16:00 - Welcome and introduction
Marius Holm, Vice-President, Bellona Foundation

16:10 - Lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon and U.S. climate- and energy policy
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, NRDC

16:20 - Offshore Blowouts globally 1980-2007
Per Holand, Senior Consultant, Exprosoft

16:40 - The Norwegian Shelf - business as usual
Gøril Tjetland and Silje Lundberg, Bellona Foundation

17:00 - From Røst to the North Cape - Implications of a potential oil drift in Lofoten
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Erik Olsen, Institute of Marine Research
Sigurd Enge, Bellona Foundation

17:30 - Coffee break

17:45 - From black oil to green desert
Frederic Hauge, Founder and President, Bellona Foundation

18:15 - The role of fossil subsidies in the global energy markets
Peter Wooders, Senior Economist for Climate Change, Energy and Trade IISD

18:45 Concluding remarks - We are a nation of petroholics
Marius Holm, Vice President, Bellona Foundation

19:00 - Entertainment, food and refreshments