WESTCARB Annual Meeting 2009 Scottsdale, AZ

WESTCARB Annual Meeting
Scottsdale, Arizona, September 15-17, 2009

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WESTCARB 2009 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, September 15
SESSION I: Overview (Moderated by Larry Myer, WESTCARB Technical Director)
Conference Welcome	Mike Gravely, Project Manager, California Energy Commission
Arizona Welcome (no slides)	Patrick J. Cunningham, Deputy Director, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Arizona Electric Utility Perspective on GHG Mitigation and the Role of CCS	Debbie Kimberly, Manager, Energy Efficiency & Policy Analysis Salt River Project
Sequestration Program	Dawn Deel, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
WESTCARB Vision and Accomplishments Overview	Larry Myer, California Energy Commission
Session II: Carbon Sequestration Pilot Projects (Moderated by John Henry Beyer, WESTCARB Geologic Pilot Projects Manager)
Arizona Utilities CO2 Storage Pilot Project Permitting and Insurance	John Boyer, Arizona Public Service Co.
Arizona Utilities CO2 Storage Pilot	Rob Trautz, EPRI
Northern California CO2 Reduction Project	Edward Hymes, Shell; Sean McFadden, Shell; John Henry Beyer, LBNL
Terrestrial Sequestration Pilots	John Kadyszewski, Winrock International
Wednesday, September 16
Session III: Public Outreach & Regulatory Issues (Moderated by Rich Myhre, WESTCARB Outreach Coordinator)
Update on the EPA UIC Class VI Rulemaking	Bruce Kobelski, Geologist/GS Team Leader for Underground Injection Control Program, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Public Perceptions of CCS	Isha Ray, University of California–Berkeley
CCS-Related Policy Developments and Needs	Martha Krebs, University of California–Davis
Oregon Climate Change Policy Initiatives	Jim Cathcart, Oregon Department of Forestry
Public Outreach for Terrestrial Sequestration Projects	Leslie Bryan, Western Shasta Resource Conservation District
SESSION IV: Panel Discussion on CCS Institutional Issues (Moderated by Richard Rhudy, WESTCARB CO2 Source and Capture Technology Characterization Manager)
Emission Crediting Protocols for CCS	John Kadyszewski, Winrock International
Measuring, Monitoring, and Verification (MMV) for CSS Offsets	Larry Myer, LBNL
Acquiring Property Rights for Carbon Sequestration: Common Law and New Statues	Jerry Fish, Stoel Rives, LLP
CCS Institutional Issues: What Happens If Something Goes Wrong?	Sarah Wade, AJW Group
SESSION V(a):Terrestrial Sequestration Activities (Parallel Breakout Session) (Moderated by Katie Goslee, WESTCARB Terrestrial Sequestration Pilots Manager)
Regional characterization projects
Regional Characterization Overview	Katie Goslee, Winrock International
Arizona State - Regional Characterization with Focus on Riparian Areas	Silvia Petrova, Winrock International
Shasta county (CA) overview
Shasta Afforestation	Katie Goslee, Winrock International; Leslie Bryan, Western Shasta Resource Conservation District
Afforestation Pilot Projects in Shasta County	Bob Rynearson, Beaty & Associates
Emissions Reductions Through Conservation-based Forest Management	Matt Fehrenbacher, Pacific Forest Trust; Katie Goslee, Winrock International
Hazardous Fuel Reduction on Federal and Private Lands and Prospects for a Biomass Power Plant in Lake County, OR	Katie Goslee, Winrock International (for Clair Thomas and Jim Walls, LCRI)
Fuel Hazard Reduction Projects	Katie Goslee, Winrock International
Carbon Benefits from Fuel Treatments	Jim Cathcart, Oregon Department of Forestry
Developing a Wildfire Emission Reduction Credit Accounting Framework	Dave Saah, Spatial Informatics Group
Forest Carbon Research in Northern Arizona	Alex Finkral, Northern Arizona University
SESSION V(b): Regional Regional Geological Characterization, CCS Economics, and Characterization/Monitoring Technology Innovations (Parallel Breakout Session) (Moderated by Lorraine Hwang, WESTCARB Regional Geologic Characterization Manager)
National Carbon Atlas & WESTCARB Carbon Atlas Update	Lorraine Hwang, California Institute for Energy & Environment
Arizona's Tertiary Basins – Potential Sinks?	Jeri Young, Arizona Geological Survey
Centralia, Washington Deep Coal Seam CO2 Sequestration Evaluation	Lorraine Hwang, CIEE (for Scott Stevens, ARI)
Plume Extent Probabilities for the Kimberlina Large-Volume Test	Preston Jordan, LBNL
Continuous Observation Well Sampling and CO2 Plume Detection	Paul Cook, LBNL
A FEP (Features-Events-Processes) Approach to CCS Risk Assessment and Management	Ken Hnottavange-Telleen, Schlumberger Carbon Services
*CCS Economics* (Subsession moderated by Dick Rhudy, WESTCARB CO2 Source and Capture Technology Characterization Manager)
Economics of Site-Specific Retrofit CO2 Capture	Sunil Ghose, Nexant
Economics of CCS in the Western Power Grid and CCS Deployment Strategies as a Function of Emission Allowance Market Prices	Gary Shu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, September 17
Field Trip to Arizona Utilities CO2 Storage Project Site and APS Cholla Power Plant (no slides)

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WESTCARB Annual Meeting Scottsdale, Arizona, September 15-17, 2009

WESTCARB Annual Meeting
Scottsdale, Arizona, September 15-17, 2009