Risk and energy infrastructure
Subtitle: cross-border dimensions
By: consulting editor, Thomas J. Dimitroff
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781905783489
Subjects: Environmental aspects; Economic aspects; Energy development; Energy policy
Description: "This book examines the spectrum of risks posed to the development, financing, construction and operation of trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the tools that may be deployed to manage these risks. The book begins by examining trends in trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the nature of the risks -- non-technical, technical and financing -- which infrastructure development projects and existing operations must anticipate and manage. Individual categories of intergovernmental and host government risk will be viewed from the perspectives of leading international experts. These risks, and the tools applied to manage them, will also be viewed from the different viewpoints of the state and private sector counterparties, lenders, affected communities and other interested third parties, such as indigenous communities, individual landowners and the non-governmental organisations that typically represent their interests. Against a backdrop of global energy supply/demand dislocations, fragility in the global financial markets, increasing awareness of the impact of projects on individuals, communities and the environment (especially in the wake of the recent BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico), and medium to longer-term concerns about security of supply and climate change, it is increasingly clear that the bandwidth of risks which infrastructure developers, operators and their advisers now need to be aware of is becoming much broader." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Thomas J. Dimitroff --  Macro-risks after the panic of 2008 / Kevin Gardiner -- Political risks in large projects / Arve Thorvik -- Multilateral and bilateral investment agreements / Tom Cummins, Ronnie King -- Intergovernmental agreements / Katie Baehl, R. Coleson Bruce, Geroge F. Goolsby -- Trans-boundary energy projects and maritime transport risk / Glen Plant -- Cross-border regulatory risk : the EU exemption regime / Leigh Hancher -- Host government agreements : the investor perspective / Charles Lindsay -- Tax risks / Stuart F. Schaffer -- A host state perspective on risk / Judith H. Kim, George Picton-Turberville -- Joint venture risks and responsibilities / Thomas J. Dimitroff -- Project finance and risk mitigation / William E. Browning, Alexandre Chavarot -- Technical and operational risk / Deborah L. Grubbe -- Holistic project management and risk / William E. Browning, Yashar Latifov -- A strategic approach to environmental and social impact assessments / David Blatchford, Martin Lednor -- Security risk management / Antony FS Ling; title: Risk, project-affected communities and their land -- Henry Thompson.