Energy Forum 2007 Speaker Presentations

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

An overview of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Carbon sources and Sinks, and Expected Outcomes
• Juerg Matter, Columbia University

An Overview of Terrestrial Sequestration
• John Antle, Montana State University

Key Concerns of Carbon Sequestration
• Greg Lind, Montana State Senator, District 50

A Brief Message from Senator Baucus
• David Cobb, Field Director, Bozeman Office

Panel Sessions

Regional Energy: Current and future trends, sources, and economics
• Tom Krueger, Energy Northwest
• Chuck Magraw, Regional energy consultant
• Tim Gregori, Southern Montana Electric
• Bruce Measure, Northwest Power and Conservation Council Representative
• Rich Halvey, Western Governors’ Association

Background on Carbon Capture and Storage: Natural Analogs and history, Current uses of CO2
• Dave Bowen, Montana State University - Natural analogs, history of gas storage, regional opportunities
• Xina Xie, Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute, University of WY - CO2 storage and EOR
• Eric Robertson, Idaho National Laboratory - Enhanced coal bed methane

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Perspectives on Current and Future Energy Technologies: from Policy to Technology
• Russell Pace, Pace Energy – Requirements for a coal gasification facility
• Mark Lambrecht, PPL – Public policy and climate change
• Jim Parker, PPL – Technology, CCS and PPL
• Howard Haines, Bioenergy Specialist, MT DEQ – An overview of biofuels

Current CCS Technologies: State of capture, transportation, injection technologies
• John Osborne, HTC Purenergy – Capture
• Aaron Koopman, Ramgen Power Systems- Compression
• Brian Jeffries, Wyoming Pipeline Authority - Transportation
• Pete McGrail – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Integrating a power plant with a storage site

Climate Change Policies from Global to Local: Who’s doing what and how might policies impact us?
• Rep. Mike Phillips, Montana State House - State Action
• Mike Jones, Puget Sound Energy - Regional
• George Peridas, National Resources Defense Council – National
• Jonathan Schrag, Columbia University - International

Risk and Regulatory Frameworks: Overview of current monitoring, mitigation and verification methodologies (MMV) and timeframes. What are the risks of CCS? What agencies are expected to regulate CO2 and how?
• John Kaszuba, Los Alamos National Laboratory – MMV
• Grant Bromhal, National Energy Technology Laboratory – Risks & leakage
• Mark Stermitz, Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, LLC– Natural resource law
• Larry Bengal, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission - Regulation

Lunch Speaker: Regional evidence and impacts of climate change
• Steve Running, University of Montana

Partnership Activities, Pilot Projects

Geologic Activities
• Dave Bowen, Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Geologist – Overview of Phase II and Phase III Pilots
• Pete McGrail, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories – Overview of basalt projects

Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration
• David Brown, Washington State University - Cropland/Rangeland
• Ted Dodge, National Carbon Offset Coalition - Carbon Credits and the Chicago Climate Exchange

Economic Analyses
• John Antle, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University

Carbon Atlas and GIS efforts
• Aaron Jones, Big Sky Institute, Montana State University

Regulatory Framework
• John Talbott, Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Montana State University

Public Outreach
• Lindsey Waggoner, Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Montana State University