Patrick Field - Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts

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Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts

Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal, Catherine Morris and Stacie Smith

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Patrick Field is managing director at the Consensus Building Institute and associate director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. Field has helped thousands of stakeholders reach agreement on energy, land use, development and natural resource management issues across the United States and Canada. He has worked with water utilities, communities, agencies and companies around gas and oil development, from the Osage Nation in Oklahoma to communities in California, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Texas and Colorado. He has worked on wind energy siting issues, including science collaborative around bat-wind energy conflict, wind energy siting and landscape values in North Dakota, Michigan and Massachusetts, as well as offshore wind siting with states and communities from Massachusetts to North Carolina. He has worked on transmission cases from New Hampshires state energy siting laws and policies with the New Hampshire legislature to work with two large regional transmission organizations, MISO and PJM, to expansion of Tampa Electrics transmission lines. He has worked on gas and oil pipelines, including a series of joint trainings with the First Nation Tax Commission and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association across western Canada. He was an energy efficiency planner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts planning and construction agency between 1989 and 1992. He is coauthor of the award-winning book, Dealing with an Angry Public, Land in Conflict: Managing and Resolving Land Use Disputes and Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation. Field is listed on the roster of conflict resolution professionals of the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Interior. He holds a masters in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Tushar Kansal is a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute. He has five years of experience as a facilitator, mediator and trainer in collaborative problem solving and negotiation within and across organizations. He has worked extensively in public policy issues over a broad range of areas, including energy and natural resources, climate change, land management, scientific and technical issues and water resources. Kansal also works with organizations to develop collaborative governance structures and strategic plans and is adept working across and between sectors with government, nonprofit and business leaders. He builds consensus and collaboration capacity on a wide range of issues, including renewable energy, oil and gas development and other forms of energy and extractive resources; management of oceans, coasts and marine resources; education; revitalization of national parks; and the management and health of groundwater and surface water sources. Kansal has also led strategic planning, visioning and other organizational development efforts at local, national and international scales, working with groups ranging from a 300-resident island community whose existence is threatened by sea level rise to a 26-member nation body that manages more than half of the worlds tuna catch. Finally, Kansal has facilitated the efforts of roundtables and other efforts to drive corporate supply chain sustainability, including in the aquaculture, beef and egg industries. Kansal holds a masters in city planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from Wesleyan University.

Catherine Morris is a senior mediator at the Consensus Building Institute. Morris has more than 15 years of experience as a mediator and consensus builder and over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental regulation and policy. She has helped stakeholders collaborate on advancing rural electrification in Africa and Asia, development of large-scale renewable energy projects in New York, the role of US nuclear power to address climate change and transmission needs in the eastern United States to support a clean energy future. With a grant from the Lincoln Institute on Land Use Policy, she led a national workshop on barriers to siting interim storage for nuclear waste and has worked with the state of Vermont to help form a Citizens Advisory Board to advise on the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. She has led communities facing the economic and environmental challenges through a process to envision and take ownership of a different future. Morris has also facilitated the formation of both private and nonprofit organizational partnerships to strengthen their ability to implement strategic and systemic change at the local, national and international levels. Before becoming a trained mediator, Morris worked for the Massachusetts regulatory commission, US EPA, and for an energy engineering firm and an air quality and climate change think tank. Morris has a BA in economics from the College of William and Mary and an MRP in economic and environmental planning from University of North Carolina.