On the Frontline: People, Power and Risk at the Nexus of Energy Infrastructures

This seminar is jointly hosted by the Sustainability Research Institute, Energy Leeds and Petroleum Leeds.

This seminar will explore corporate/community practice at the frontline of new energy infrastructures. With a focus on stakeholder engagement in relation to hydrocarbon pipelines, the speakers will explore both the corporate representatives who undertake these roles, and the community stakeholders through whom these relationships tend to play out. The discussion will characterize the non-technical nature of risk from a corporate perspective and more critically consider who holds power, what constitutes ‘power’ in this respect, and what influences how power is lost, won and influenced.

Clare Bebbington has over 25 years of experience in the global oil, gas and renewables industries, with both client and contracting companies. As Managing Director of Audire Consultants, she champions the integration of non-technical risk, brand and reputation management with commercial and technical imperatives. She is Director of the John Smith Trust, a Trustee of the Friends of the Basrah Museum and a member of the Petroleum Leeds External Advisory Board.

Dr Emma Wilson is an independent researcher and consultant, director of ECW Energy Ltd. and Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. She has over 20 years’ experience in energy and mining, focusing on community relations and corporate responsibility, including social impact assessment/audit and anthropological field research. She speaks fluent Russian and has worked in Russia, Central Asia, Norway, Greenland, Nigeria and South Africa.

For more information please contact James Van Alstine