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Energy Water Nexus Primary Fuels for Power and Transportation in the US
November 10, 2011
The Atlantic Council Energy and Environment Program has undertaken a series of workshops to investigate the intersection between water and energy. The “energy-water nexus" examines water availability, or more accurately water scarcity, as a key energy-related issue. With this series of conferences, the Council built upon its work to better inform Congress, the American public, and key policy and industry leaders on energy-related issues that impact the United States’ ability to protect its energy, national, economic, and environmental security. In a follow up to the initial workshop on energy water implications of thermoelectric power generation, the Atlantic Council held a second workshop on November 10, 2011 aimed at examining how water resources are used throughout the production and usage of primary energy and transportation fuels. Primary energy and transportation fuel extraction and processing is responsible for less than 5 percent of US water consumption; however, in water scarce regions, extraction and processing has led to fierce competition for water rights among farmers, energy producers, and municipalities, which has only increased in the wake of severe droughts.
Discussions during the workshop focused on current and the forecast levels of water and energy supply and demand, water intensity during extraction and processing of primary fuels, associated environmental issues, federal and state government oversight of water quality, and the prospect of technological advances. The goal of the workshop was to rethink how policy and business practices can adapt to accommodate the diverging interests of primary energy and fuel production and water sustainability.
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PARTICIPANTS LIST
PRESENTATIONS
- William Bellamy - Energy in Water: The Management Options and Opportunities
- Ann Codrington - Protecting Drinking Water Supplies
- John Conti - Annual Energy Outlook (2011)
- Ian Duncan- Water for Primary Fuels Forecasts
- Ian Duncan - Water Usage in Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Gas
- Jerald J. Fletcher - Coal Mining: Water Resource Implications
- Dave Hager - Water Stewardship and the Shale Gas Revolution
- Richard Hammack - Water Management and Energy Production
- Robert Horner - Water Use for Other Transportation Fuels: Oil, Natural Gas, Coal-to-Liquids, and Hydrogen
- Ann Lowery - Water / Energy Nexus in Massachusetts: A State Perspective
- Jordan Macknick - Water Intensity in the Extraction and Processing of Primary Fuels: The Case of Renewables
- Howard Passell - Can We Meet Projected Demand?
- Ron Pate - Water Demand for Biofuels Production
- Timothy J. Richards - Water & Primary Fuels Innovation Outlook
- Stephen H. Schoenholtz - Coal Mining and Water Resources in the Central Appalachians: Emerging Environmental Challenges
- Vincent Tidwell - Water for Electricity Production Forecasts
PUBLICATIONS
- Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges - Blythe Lyons, senior fellow of the Energy and Environment Program.
- Fueling America and the Energy Water Nexus: How and Why it Impacts the Nexus and What Next - Gen. Richard L. Lawson, USAF (Ret.), vice chairman, Atlantic Council; Blythe Lyons, senior fellow, Energy and Environment Program; John Lyman, director, Energy and Environment Program; and Mihaela Carstei, associate director, Energy and Environment Program.
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