Board
Meeting Agenda
Vancouver,
British Columbia
April
17, 2000
8:30
a.m.
Call to Order – John Nunley
Welcome to British Columbia – Gordon Robinson
Business Meeting
·
Approve
Minutes from October 1999 Meeting In Monterey
o
Monterey
Minutes
·
Review
the activities of the Board and its committees
o
Board
and Committee Reports
·
Approve a
Work Plan and Budget for the FY 2000-2001
o
Work
Plan
o
Budget
·
Elect
officers
·
Governors’
energy priorities in the coming year - Jim Souby, Executive Director of the
Western Governors’ Association
·
Strategy
on providing input to the transition team for a new U.S. Administration
o
Potential
Topics
·
Next
meeting
10:00
a.m. Wind
Powering America
http://www.eren.doe.gov/windpoweringamerica/
Geopowering the West http://www.eren.doe.gov/geopoweringthewest/
·
Department
of Energy Presentation
o
Bill
Becker
§
Wind
Powering America / Geopowering the West Presentations
o
National
Program Manager Peter Goldman (via conference call)
o
E-mail
from Geothermal Energy Association
11:00
a.m. Summer
gasoline/diesel prices and availability
·
Energy
Information Administration – Dave Costello, EIA Short Term Energy Outlook
o
Primer
on Gas Prices
o
Short
Term Energy Outlook April 2000 Presentation
o
Price
Spike Presentation (background information only)
·
California
Energy Commission – Dan Nix
o
Gas
Prices
12:00
p.m. Luncheon for
Board members
2:00
p.m. Impact
of the EPA proposal on oxygenates in gasoline and ethanol
·
Bill
Keese, California
o
EPA
MTBE Press Release and Facts Sheet
o
USDA
MTBE Announcement
o
Governor’s
Request for Waiver of Oxygen Mandate
o
Supporting
Justification for Waiver Request
o
Ethanol
Opportunities in California
o
Executive
Summary of the Supply and Cost of Alternatives to MTBE in Gasoline
3:00
p.m. Provincial/State
Innovations
·
Carbon
management technology strategy – Saskatchewan
o
CO2
Injection
o
Greenhouse
Gas Centre
·
Developments
in Alberta
·
Others
3:45
p.m. Creation
of a Western Regional Electric Reliability Advisory Board
Use of the Supplementary Agreement provisions of the Western Interstate
Nuclear Compact to create a western regional advisory board under the electric
system reliability legislation pending in Congress
·
Bill
Chamberlain, General Counsel, California Energy Commission
o
Advisory
Board Language
4:30
p.m. Air
Pollution Prevention Forum of the Western Regional Air
Partnership
·
Jeff
Burks, AP2 Forum Co-Chair
o
Slide
Presentation
o
Renewable
Report (background information, hyperlink only)
5:30
p.m. Adjourn