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Join us for the Economic Leadership Forum!
The standard hotel room rate is $109 (nicer, corner rooms are $129). The block will end on Oct. 24, and the Coeur d'Alene Resort will continue to book into the block on a space-available basis.
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Energy Plenary Session
Preliminary Agenda
Thursday, November 15
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Legislative Energy Chairs Panel - Key Energy Issues for 2013 Legislative Sessions featuring: - Sen. Kevin Ranker, Washington, Energy, Natural Resources & Marine Waters (Chair);
- Rep. George Eskridge, Idaho, Energy, Environment & Technology Interim Committee (Co-Chair);
- Sen. Curt McKenzie, Idaho, Energy, Environment & Technology Interim Committee (Co-Chair);
- Rep. Deb Boone, Oregon, Energy, Environment and Water, (Co-Vice Chair);
- Sen. Alan Olson, Montana, Energy and Telecommunications (Chair);
- Sen. Lesil McGuire, Alaska, Resources (Vice Chair) (invited);
- The Honourable David Ramsay, Northwest Territories, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, Minister of Transportation
Questions to be Addressed:
What is the most significant energy issue your legislature will address this year?
In your opinion, what is the most important energy
issue in the region?
Which area do you wish you had more information
on?
- Report out on the Energy Storage Coalition
Moderated by Jeff Morris, Director, PNWER Energy Horizon Institute
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Special Luncheon Plenary -
Assessing Foreign Ownership
for Key Natural Resource
Assets in the Region
Thursday, November 15
President, Dawson Strategic, Ottawa, former Senior Advisor on U.S.-Canada Economic Affairs, United States Embassy
Senior Counsel, Davis LLP, former Attorney General of British Columbia
Moderated by Jeff Morris,
Director, PNWER Energy Horizon Institute
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Lt. Gov. Brad Little to moderate Friday luncheon discussion with U.S. Sen. Crapo on the "fiscal cliff" debt reduction negotiations and the region's economic outlook
Lt. Governor Brad Little was appointed Idaho's 37th Lieutenant Governor on January 6, 2009.
Little was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in May 2001, and was subsequently elected and reelected senator from District 11 four times. He was elected Lt. Governor on Nov. 2, 2010. A successful businessman himself as the head of Little Enterprises, Inc. (a diversified farming and cattle operation), Little is a former chairman of the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry (IACI), the Idaho Wool Growers Association, and vice chairman of the Idaho Community Foundation. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Home Federal Bank as well as Performance Design Incorporated, a small Boise-based manufacturing company.
Other speakers you'll hear from include:
- Chris Sands, Hudson Institute
- Ed Schweitzer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
- Amy Ferriter, Idaho Department of Agriculture
- Phil Rockefeller, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- Rep. Eric Anderson, Idaho Legislature
- Mark Sytsma, Associate Vice-president for Research, Portland State University
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