Extractive industries in the North –
What about Environmental Law and indigenous Peoples Rights?
Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø –The Arctic University of Norway, 17.-19. November 2013
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Program |
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Sunday 17 November
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Informal conference dinner with introductory speeches
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Rica Ishavshotel, Panorama room |
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1800 |
Welcome |
Associate Professor Susann F. Skogvang and Dean Trude Haugli
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1900 |
International legal framework for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights
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Associate Professor Mattias Åhrén, UiT |
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1930 |
International legal framework for the protection of the environment
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Associate Professor Ingvild U. Jakobsen, UiT |
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Monday 18 November
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Conference day 1 General questions and Superior aspect of extractive industries in the north
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Radisson Blu |
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0900
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Coffee |
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0915 |
Extractive industries and Indigenous peoples
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UN Special Rapporteur, Professor James Anaya |
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1000 |
Regulating environmental impact of extractive industries
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Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald, University of Oslo |
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1030 |
Coffee
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1100 |
Contracting around tort and defaults: The knock-for-knock principle and accident costs
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Professor Endre Stavang, University of Oslo, and Professor Guideon Parchomovsky, Penn law Faculty |
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1130 |
Scandinavia as exception: FPIC and the financing of extractive industries |
Dr. Rebecca Lawrence, Stockholm university
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1200-1300 |
Lunch
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1300 |
Are indigenous human rights sacrificed on the altar of the extractive industry?
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Professor Øyvind Ravna, UiT |
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1330 |
How to apply the international human rights legal framework to a proposed mining project? (HRIA)
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Lawyer, Lloyd Kevin Lipsett, Montréal Québec |
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1400 |
An ecosystem approach in extractive industries
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PhD-student Vito de Lucia, UiT |
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1415-1430 |
Coffee
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1430-1600 |
Panel discussion (Anaya, Fauchald, Stavang, Ravna and Lipsett)
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Chair: Professor Tore Henriksen
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1900 |
Dinner |
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Tuesday 19 November |
Conference day 2 Case studies
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Radisson Blu |
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0900
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Coffee |
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0915 |
Canada: Tar sand projects in Canada and the impact on the indigenous peoples and the environment
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Professor Nigel Bankes, UiT/University of Calgary |
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0945 |
Russia: Extractive industries and indigenous peoples’ rights in Russia |
Assistant Professor Ruslan Garipov, Kazan Federal University
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1015-1045 |
Coffee
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1045 |
Alaska: Narratives in Conflict: Alaska Natives and Offshore Drilling in the Arctic. |
Associate Professor Michael Burger, Roger Williams University School of Law |
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1120 |
European Union: Foreign direct liability claim in Europe Union: an avenue of redress for victims of environmental damages
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PhD-student Dorothee Cambou, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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1140 |
Sápmi: Mineral activities on reindeer grazing-land in Sweden
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PhD-student Kristina Labba, UiT |
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1200-1300 |
Lunch
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1300 |
Greenland: Extractive industries on Greenland and the notion of UN Guiding principles
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Lawyer, VDB-Loi, Rutherford Hubbard |
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1330 |
Finland: The old mining act of Finland in light of the revised one from 2011
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Professor Timo Koivurova, University of Lapland
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1400 |
Coffee |
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1415 |
Closing remarks |
Professor Nigel Bankes Professor Tore Henriksen
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