Board of Directors Meeting

Agenda

May 1-2, 2002

Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego

Wednesday, May 1

8:00                       Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.                Outline of the meeting
                                    John Savage (OR), Chairman
                                    
                               Business meeting
                                    Minutes of last meeting
                                    Board and Committee activities
                                    FY2002-03 work plan and budget
                                    Election of officers

10:00 a.m.               Break

10:15 a.m.                Western Governors' energy priorities -- Jim Souby

• Follow-up from Enlibra Summit (e.g., interstate electric transmission permitting protocol; green tags; expanding renewables on federal lands; emissions trading; coal-bed methane)

• Federal energy legislative priorities and issues - overview of status and key issues (e.g., reliability, eminent domain,  federal intrusion, ethanol, Alaska gas pipelines, greenhouse gases, RPS)

                                                            Links to:  

                                                            Table comparing House and Senate bills
                                                            Text of HR 4,  S 517  

WGA energy resolutions:  Western States Energy Policy Roadmap, A Competitive and Reliable Western    Electric Power System,  Energy Policy for the Americas,  Coal Policy,  Natural Gas  

Three governor letter on concentrating solar 

11:30 a.m.                State/province issue reports
                                DOE Interior West Clean Energy Study 

12:30 p.m.                Working lunch

1:30 p.m.                  Break

2:00 p.m.                  WIEB-WGA Workshop on North American Energy Trade  
                                    Sign-in list of attendees
                                    Background Materials pdf file
                                    NAET Webpage

The purpose of this session is to identify the key cross-border energy trade issues between the Western U.S., Western Canada, and Mexico that governors and their counterparts from Mexico and Canada should address at the June 22-25 Western Governors’ Association Meeting.  Governors’ staff, Mexican officials, WGA staff, and several other parties will join WIEB members in the discussion. 

        
                                Introductions and presentations of areas of interest
                                        Scott Celley, Arizona Governor's office
                                        Paul Hudson, Texas Governor's office
                                        Art Reese, Wyoming Governor's office
                                        John Savage, Chairman, Western Interstate Energy Board

Panel 1: The challenges and opportunities for a North American energy market and visions from Western Canada, the U.S. and Mexico of how this can be accomplished.  Is there a common  vision of how to meet the energy needs of Western North America and the actions needed?

• Canadian vision (Trevor Dark, Saskatchewan)  pwrpt

• Mexican vision (Dr. Armando Jimenez, SENER (Secretary of Energy) 

• U.S. vision (Bill Keese, Chairman, California Energy Commission and Paul Hudson, Texas Governor's Office)   pwrpt

      Panel 2: How regulatory processes for energy projects operate.  What are the rules of the road?

• U.S.: Federal processes -- V.A. Stephens/Veronica Angulo, President's Council on Environmental Quality -- via teleconference
          State processes -- Mike Tollstrup, California Air Resources Board   pwrpt

• Canada:  Larry Charach, Alberta   pwrpt

• Respondent:  Carlos Rincon, Environmental Defense   pwrpt
                       Paul Miller, Commission for Environmental Cooperation   pwrpt

5:30 p.m.                   Recess

6:00-7:00 p.m.           Reception

Thursday, May 2

7:30 a.m.                   Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m.                   WGA-WIEB Workshop on North American Energy Trade (continued)

Panel 3:   Case studies on cross-border energy projects:  lessons learned and key issues going forward

Case Studies (tentative):

• U.S./Mexico border power plants - Mark Nelson, Sempra   pwrpt

• Transmission development
   > Ed Beck, Tucson Electric   pwrpt
   > Columbia River cross border experience (Denise Mullen-Dalmer, British Columbia)

• LNG projects and related facilities 
   > Doug Thierwechter, Marathon  

• WGA’s clean energy project in the U.S./Mexico border region 
  > Rich Halvey, WGA   pwrpt

• Respondents from Chihuahua, Coahuila, Baja, Sonora, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas

11:00 a.m.                 States-only discussion of recommendations to governors for cross-border energy trade discussion at the 
                                 June 22-25 WGA meeting.

Noon                        Adjourn