GLIN==> Great Lakes Wind Collaborative - Announcements

Change is in the Wind: Great Lakes Wind Collaborative 2nd Annual Meeting

The second annual meeting of the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative will be held
at the We Energies headquarters in Milwaukee, WI on June 10 and 11, 2009.
This meeting will include updates on past, current, and future wind
activities from state and provincial leaders, as well as discussions about
the Collaborative's activities over the course of its first year of
operation. In addition, the agenda includes presentations on offshore wind
energy development, transmission issues, as well as the specifications and
limitations of the maritime industry in transporting wind turbine
components.

An opening presentation by leading energy officials from both the United
States and Canada will shed light on what it means for the Great Lakes to
serve as a model region for wind energy development and how this contributes
to reducing CO2 and combating the effects of climate change.

The first day of the meeting will conclude with a field trip to an East
Central Wisconsin wind farm. Participants in the field trip will see
large-scale development of land-based wind turbines on a landscape
punctuated with many glacial landforms, including some of the largest
groupings of drumlins, terminal moraines, glacial lake basins and other
features. One of the primary land features in the area is the Horicon Marsh,
home to large numbers of Canada geese, ducks, heron, water birds and other
species. Participants will hear preliminary results of wildlife interaction
monitoring and how wildlife studies are carried out in the field.

Registration is now open online at www.glc.org/energy/wind/conf2009.html.
Meeting sponsorship information is also available on this page. If you have
any questions, please contact Kristina Donnelly (kdonnelly at glc.org;
734-971-9135). A draft agenda for the GLWC 2nd Annual Meeting will be
available in the coming weeks. 

For more details about the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative, go to
www.glc.org/energy/wind.


GLWC Reaches Out to Obama, Harper

The Great Lakes Wind Collaborative sent a letter to President Barack Obama
and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Feb. 13 alerting them to the work
of the Collaborative and urging them to consider the Collaborative as a
regional partner in advancing the development of wind energy.

The Great Lakes Wind Collaborative (GLWC) is a multi-sector coalition of
wind energy stakeholders working to facilitate the sustainable development
of wind power in the binational Great Lakes region. Both U.S. and Canadian
federal governments have plans for renewable energy initiatives designed to
eliminate greenhouse gases and reduce the impacts of climate change, and the
Collaborative seeks to ensure that wind is part of the process. The letter
was also sent to the governors, senators, and congressional representatives
of the eight Great Lakes states, as well as the premiers and Members of
Parliament from Ontario and Québec. The U.S. Secretary of Energy as well as
the Ministers of Natural Resources, Fisheries and Oceans, and the
Environment Canada were also copied.

This letter came just one week before the two leaders met in Ottawa, and
urged them to ensure that clean energy was part of their discussion. At
their meeting on February 19, Obama's first international visit, he and
Harper discussed, among other things, the need for a "U.S.-Canada clean
energy dialogue" between senior U.S. and Canadian officials who would
"collaborate on the development of clean energy science and technologies."
The GLWC has lent full support for such a dialogue and has voiced hopes to
be part of that discussion.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: winmail.dat
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 1206541 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20090331/15982dea/attachment.bin