Mid-West Electric Consumers Association
52nd Annual Meeting
2009 PROGRAM
Monday, December 7, 2009
NOON Resolutions Committee
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
8:30 - Board of Directors' Meeting
10:00 - Friends of Mid-West Coffee
FIRST GENERAL SESSION
1:00 - Speaker : “A Matter of Balance”
Thomas Graves
1:45 - Panel: “ Across the Wide Missouri ”
Jeff Nelson – East River Electric Power (Moderator)
Jody Farhat – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bob Harris – Western Area Power Administration-UGP
Brad Warren – Western Area Power Administration-RMR
Mike Ryan – U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
3:30 - Speaker : “Energy and Climate Change – What are the Politics?”
Joe Nipper – APPA
4:00 - Speaker : "A High Wire Balancing Act"
Timothy J. Meeks – Western Area Power Administration
4:30 - “A Conversation with Tim Meeks”
Timothy J. Meeks - Western
Vic Simmons – Rushmore Electric
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
SECOND GENERAL SESSION
8:00 - Panel : “A Carbon-Free Economy?”
Jim Spiers – Tri-State G &T (Moderator)
Michael Miller – EPRI
Jim Sims – Western Business Round Table
Randy Udall – Founder and Former Director, Community Office of - -Resource Efficiency and Co-founder, Association for the Study of Peak -Oil-USA
9:30 - Panel : “A View from the Hill”
Scott Parsley– East River Electric Power (Moderator)
Paul Griffin – NRECA
Mike Eggl – Basin Electric Power Co-op
“Mac” McLennan – Tri-State G & T
Jeff Genzer – Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C.
John McClure – NPPD
11:00 - Speaker : Ordean “Lars” Nygren – President Report
11:15 - State Caucuses
1:00 - Speaker : “Reclamation and the New Energy Frontier"
Michael L. Connor – Commissioner USBR
1:30 - FREDERICK G. SIMONTON AWARD
2009 Award Goes to Hub Thompson, Tri-State G & T
Ken Anderson from Tri-State Congratulates Hub
Hub is Joined by Mid-West's Officers
2:00 - Panel : “The Missouri River 's Future”
Cheryl Chapman – Matrix Consulting Group (Moderator)
Lamar McKissack – MRAPS
Mike George – MRRIC
Randy Sellers – MRERP
4:00 Business Session:
Election of Directors
Adoption of Resolutions
Old Business
New Business
4:45 Board Reorganization
6:30 MEMBERS RECEPTION & DANCE
Thursday, December 10, 2009
THIRD GENERAL SESSION
8:00 Breakfast
Speaker : “Barack's Report Card”
Al Eisele - The Hill
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