Committee to host bumper day of evidence

Witnesses 

At 10.40am:   

• Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Chairman of Sovcomflot Overseas Holding Ltd
• Rob Hindley, Lead specialist in Arctic technology, Lloyd’s Register
• Tom Paterson, Senior Vice-President, Shipowning, Arctic, and Projects, Fednav

At 11.40am:

• Professor Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School
• Dr Richard Powell, Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford
• Professor Frances Wall, Associate Professor in Applied Mineralogy, University of Exeter.

At 2.00pm:

• Professor Geoffrey Boulton OBE FRS FRSE, Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
• Dr Andrew Foxall, Director of the Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society
• Tim Reilly, Arctic Advisory Group

Areas of discussion

• Prospects for a significant increase in trans-Arctic shipping.
• What type of shipping or cargo might be attracted by the opening up of Arctic shipping routes.
• What kind of infrastructure would be required in the Arctic region to safely support an increase in shipping.
• Energy exploration in the Arctic including the accuracy of estimates of the amount of recoverable oil, natural gas and minerals in the Arctic.
• How important Arctic oil and gas reserves might be in a global context.
• The response of local communities in the Arctic to new oil, gas and mineral extraction projects.
• Russia’s role in the Arctic and its aspirations for the Arctic Council.
• How tensions between Russia and European nations might impact on Arctic cooperation.
• The impact that sanctions might have on Russian oil and gas developments in the Arctic.

Further information

• About Parliament: Select Committees
• Visiting Parliament: Select Committees

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