The Waterloo Economics Workshop is an annual event held in the spring. This year the theme was Current Challenges in Environmental & Resource Economics. There were excellent presentations and discussion about a wide variety of topics from pipelines and railways to fossil fuels and climate change. In the photo from left to right are Alain Nimubona (Waterloo), Hassan Benchekroun (McGill), Martino Pelli (Sherbrooke), Margaret Insley (Waterloo), Lucia Muehlenbachs (Calgary), Charles Mason (Wyoming), Horatiu Rus (Waterloo) and Andrew Leach (Alberta). Thanks to all the presenters and attendees. The titles of the papers presented can be found here.
Charles Mason from the University of Wyoming presented on the topic of Infrastructure Issues in Hydrocarbon Markets
Andrew Leach from the University of Alberta presented on Carbon pricing, resource royalties, and emissions
Hassan Benchekroun from McGill University presented OPEC, Shale Oil, and Global Warming- On the Importance of the order of extraction
Lucija Muehlenbachs from the University of Calgary presented Roads and Resources: Groundwater Depletion in the North China Planins
A group photo of the presenters with faculty members Alain Nimubona, Margaret Insley, and Horatiu Rus
