“Everything up in the air”: LNG, the Strait of Hormuz, and Central & Eastern Europe’s energy future
"LNG shipments to Central & Eastern Europe are reliable as long as those gas markets are not overly dependent upon one supplier."
Past Event
October 26, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm edt

This roundtable is open only to currently-enrolled Columbia University students.
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student-only lunch and roundtable discussion with Professor Lucija Muehlenbachs, visiting faculty member at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and a university fellow at Resources for the Future.
Muehlenbachs will present her current research showing evidence of oil being drained away from First Nations reserves in Canada, with a discussion of the implications for equity and government oversight. Following introductions, we will move into an open conversation.
Lunch will be provided.
Biography
Lucija Muehlenbachs is an associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and a university fellow at Resources for the Future. She has published extensively on the oil and gas industry, on topics such as end-of-life liabilities, environmental enforcement, implications on housing prices, water quality, waste management, and truck traffic. Achievements include providing analysis for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and serving on the editorial boards of five journals.
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