School of Law
The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The
Shape
of the
Coast
2009
October 23,
2009
Coastal Water
Issues
Riverfront Convention Center
New Bern, North Carolina
the
Future
Fourth Annual Program Highlights Include:
• 5. 5 hours of CLE credit
• Understanding the hydrology of
coastal North Carolina
• Future regulation of water use
• CRC developments and update
• Coastal insurance issues
• A look at the future of water-based
wind energy
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Co-sponsored by the North Carolina Coastal Resources Law,
Planning and Policy Center and the North Carolina Sea Grant Program
About the
Program
The Shape of the Coast 2009
This year’s program continues the tradition of providing an update
of the CRC's activities over the past year and looking at the issues the
CRC anticipates it will be addressing in the upcoming year as well
as a discussion of three other major topics of interest to coastal lawyers,
planners, officials and citizens. In coastal North Carolina water is
everywhere. Nonetheless, with the continued growth along its
barrier islands and its vast inner coast, there are concerns about water
allocation in the future. The hydrology of coastal North Carolina
will be explained, potential future water conflicts identified, and
the current proposal to develop a regulatory system for water
allocation examined. The second major topic, of particular concern to
coastal residents, is the availability and cost of coastal storm and hazard
insurance. A diverse panel of experts will discuss the "Beach Plan," the
impact of the coastal insurance legislation passed by the North
Carolina General Assembly in its most recent session, and other coastal
insurance issues. The third major topic is the feasibility of the placing
of water-based wind energy facilities in either the state's estuarine
waters or in the ocean waters off the North Carolina coast. In this
session two members of the UNC Wind Study group will discuss the
legal framework, scientific issues and practical limitations.
NC Coastal Center Co-Directors
Joseph J. Kalo
Graham Kenan Professor of Law, UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill
Lisa C. Schiavinato
Coastal Law, Policy and Community Development Specialist,
North Carolina Sea Grant, Raleigh
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About the
Center
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Law, Planning
and Policy Center is an inter-institutional entity in which
the North Carolina School of Law, the North Carolina Sea Grant
Program and the University of North Carolina Department of
City and Regional Planning are partners. The Center’s mission
is to assist the people of North Carolina in addressing the
pressing coastal and ocean resource and development issues
confronting the state. It is a research, advisory and educational
entity providing research support to state agencies, state
advisory group and panels, local governments and community
organizations in their efforts to address coastal and ocean
resource and development issues and promote the sustainable
use of coastal lands, waters and natural resources. The
Center also engages in the study of long-term coastal use and
development trends and issues and communicates the results
of this effort through the semi-annual publication of Legal
Tides, a newsletter currently being sent to 1300 state agency
and local government personnel, community organizations,
and interested individuals, white papers available on is website
and scholarly publications. Through conferences and other
programs, the Center engages in continuing outreach to coastal
professionals, community organizations and others with an
interest in coastal and ocean resource issues.
About
NC Sea Grant
N
. orth Carolina Sea Grant began in 1970. Today, this
university-based program is part of a network of 30 Sea Grant
programs that wrap the shores of the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of
Mexico and Great Lakes. North Carolina Sea Grant has focused
intellectual resources of North Carolina’s major universities on
coastal economic development, coastal ecosystem health and
human resources to address coastal issues. With its emphasis on
solid, peer-reviewed scientific research coupled with outreach,
Sea Grant has gained a reputation as a reliable source for valid
solutions and timely information about our coast. NC Sea Grant
provides a holistic approach to a wide range of topics that have
direct impacts not only along the North Carolina coast, but also
across the state and the country.
Agenda
Friday, October 23
8:30 a.m.
Registration
12:15 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
Understanding the Hydrology
of Coastal North Carolina
1:15 p.m.
Dr. Richard K. Spruill, Associate Professor, Department of Geological
Sciences, East Carolina University
The Coastal Plain Province of North Carolina is a hydrogeologist's paradise.
The complex aquifer systems which underlie the region are utilized
extensively by municipalities, industries, agriculture and individuals:
hydrogeologic problems abound. An understanding of present and future
water allocation and use issues requires an understanding of the hydrology
of the coast.
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m.
Coastal Water Allocation Issues
Amy E. Pickle, Senior Attorney for State Policy, Nicholas Institute
for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Water is essential for all sectors of North Carolina's economy. However,
North Carolina's historically ample water supply has made it difficult to
see the importance of proactive measures to guard against future shortages.
Conflict over water supply will likely increase in the next decades as water
supplies are taxed by additional demand and climate change impacts.
This presentation will look at the current proposal to develop a regulatory
system for water allocation with particular emphasis on the coast's current
approach to water supply, emerging coastal conflicts, and how the proposed
legislation may impact the coast.
11:15 p.m.
What's Been Happening Before
the CRC: An Annual Update
Robert R. Emory, Jr., Chairman, Coastal Resources Commission
This session will be a discussion of the Commission's recent and ongoing
work. The presenter will also address coastal resource topics that the
Commission is beginning to consider.
Lunch
Coastal Insurance: A Panel Discussion
Jennifer Cohen, Executive Director, Insurance Federation of North Carolina
Donald T. Hornstein, Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Tyler Newman, Director of Governmental Affairs, Business Alliance for a
Sound Economy
Rose Vaughn Williams, Legislative Counsel, NC Department of Insurance
A diverse panel will discuss recent actions regarding coastal insurance,
especially the legislature’s passage of HB 1305, reforming wind insurance
under the so-called “Beach Plan.” It will discuss not only what the legislature
did -- and didn’t do – to this program, but also the ancillary court battles and
political controversy that led the General Assembly to give this issue its attention.
It will discuss issues regarding wind insurance – and possibly other types of
coastal insurance – that continue despite the passage of HB 1305.
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Water-Based Wind Energy:
New Legislation and the Result
of the UNC Wind Study
Dr. Charles H. Peterson, Distinguished Professor, UNC Institute of Marine
Sciences
Joseph J. Kalo, Graham Kenan Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
This session will provide an overview of water-based wind energy. It will
include the results of the UNC Wind Study. At the request of the North Carolina
General Assembly the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a
9-month study to assess the feasibility of installing wind turbines in the sounds
and off the coast of North Carolina. The request specified that the assessment
include an analysis of the spatial distributions of available wind power, ecological
risks and synergies, use conflicts affecting site selection, foundation systems and
their compatibility with sound and ocean bottom geology and associated geologic
dynamics, electric transmission infrastructure, utility statutory and regulatory
barriers, the legal context, carbon reduction potential and economics.
4:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Program
Speakers
Charles H. Peterson
Jennifer M. Cohen
Alumni Distinguished Professor, UNC Marine Sciences Program.
A.B., 1968, Princeton University; Ph.D., 1972, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Executive Director, Insurance Federation of North Carolina.
B.A. 1986, UCLA; J.D. 1992, Loyola Law School.
Amy E. Pickle
Robert R. Emory, Jr.
Senior Attorney for State Policy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions, Duke University.
B.S. 1994, University of Florida; J.D. 2000, UNC School of Law.
Environmental Affairs Manager, Weyerhaeuser.
B.A., 1972, Virginia Tech.
Donald T. Hornstein
Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, UNC School of Law.
B.A., 1972, University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., 1981,
University of Oregon.
Joseph J. Kalo
Graham Kenan Professor of Law , UNC School of Law.
B.A., 1966, Michigan State; J.D., 1968, University of Michigan.
Dr. Richard K. Spruill
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University.
B.S., 1973; M.S., 1976, East Carolina University; Ph.D., 1980, UNC Chapel Hill.
Rose Vaughn Williams
Legislative Counsel, North Carolina Department of Insurance, Raleigh.
B.S., 1986, UNC Chapel Hill ; J.D. 1989, UNC School of Law.
Tyler Newman
Governmental Affairs Director, Business Alliance for a Sound Economy.
B.A., 2000, UNC Chapel Hill.
Planning Board
Merrie Jo Alcoke
Attorney-At-Law; DRC Certified Mediator, Superior Court, New Bern
David J. Brower
Research Professor, UNC Department of City and
Regional Planning, Chapel Hill
Derb S. Carter, Jr.
Director, Carolinas Office, Southern Environmental
Law Center, Chapel Hill
Walter F. Clark
Executive Director, Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust,
Boone
Paul J. Delamar III
Delamar & Delamar, PLLC, Bayboro
J. Webb Fuller
Nags Head
Donna Girardot
Executive Officer, Wilmington Cape Fear Home
Builders Association, Wilmington
Camilla M. Herlevich
Founder and Executive Director, North Carolina
Coastal Land Trust, Wilmington
J. Allen Jernigan
Special Deputy Attorney General, Environmental
Division, NC Department of Justice, Raleigh
Dr. Lorry King
Director, Coastal Resources Management Program,
East Carolina University, Greenville
Field Site, UNC Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill
Justin McCorcle
Assistant District Counsel,
US Army Corp of Engineers, Wilmington
Norma Houston Mills
Lecturer in Public Law and Government,
UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill
William A. Raney, Jr.
Wessell & Raney, LLP, Wilmington
Todd Roessler
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Raleigh
Greg L. “Rudi” Rudolph
Shore Protection Manager, Carteret County Shore
Lee Lewis Leidy
Protection Office, Emerald Isle
NE Regional Director, North Carolina Coastal Land Trust,
Edenton; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Albemarle Ecological
Neil B. Whitford
Kirkman, Whitford Brady & Berryman PA, Morehead City
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New Bern Riverfront Convention Center
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