Mr. James Booker

President Director, PT JBCS Indonesia

Member of the Natural Resources Council

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Council Member Biography

James Booker is the President Director of PT JBCS Indonesia, a subsidiary of James Booker Consultancy Pte Ltd, which provides legal, technical and project development advisory services to clients in the energy, mining and construction sectors. He has over 36 years of international experience (last 20 years in Asia) in project development, engineering, construction, project management, and dispute resolution. Since 1998, he has been involved in the development of several major coal-fired power projects in Indonesia, for which he has provided expertise in contract structuring, financing, operations management and dispute resolution. He is currently advising a major Indonesian energy company on the development of a multi-billion dollar IPP project, and also advising a major mining company on various EPC contracts for facilities development. Mr. Booker has a BS in Engineering, an MBA in International Business, an MS in Construction Law and Arbitration, and an LLM in International Legal Practice. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2009 - Unspecified: President Director, PT JBCS Indonesia
1998 - 2009: Senior VP- Operations & Project Development, PT. Paiton Energy
1992 - 1998: President Director, PT Kilborn Pakar Rekayasa
1987 - 1992: Vice President & General Manager, Proton Engineering & Construction Ltd
1980 - 1986: Project Manager, Kilborn Engineering (BC) Ltd
1979 - 1980: Senior Construction Engineer, Barnett-McQueen Construction Ltd.
1978 - 1979: Construction Manager, Hallcraft Construction Co. Ltd.
1977 - 1978: Senior Construction Engineer, INCO Metals Company
1975 - 1977: Senior Construction Engineer, British Smelter Constructions Ltd.
1974 - 1975: Senior Structural Engineer, Catalytic Inc.
1972 - 1974: Senior Site Engineer, Christiani & Nielsen Ltd.
1971 - 1972: Bridge Design Engineer, Redpath Dorman Long Ltd.

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Hydro Cleaner Than Coal? Maybe Not.

January 22, 2007

Analysis of:Peruvian president offers hydropower to Brazil as alternative energy source | www.iht.com

The World Commission on Dams Report 2000 concluded that hydro power projects are expensive; prone to significant cost and schedule overruns; rarely reach design capacity or availability; adversely impact ecosystems upstream and downstream; displace large numbers of people and provide few employment benefits; and discriminate against indigenous peoples and women.

Research undertaken over the past 10 years in Canada and Brazil provides overwhelming evidence that large tropical hydro power plants are neither environmentally friendly nor sustainable.

Evidence from these studies concludes that large tropical hydro power projects release, on a continuing basis, more CO2 into the atmosphere than an equivalent coal-fired power plant.

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GLG Study Groups with James Booker(?)

Study Group Name	No. Members
Utilities and Power Generation Consultants (Asia)	258
Coal Industry Consultants	142
Thermal Coal Experts	90
Coal Pricing Experts	79
Coal Purchasers (North America)	66