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Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting

October 26, 2012

Mt. Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA

Agenda At-A-Glance

Start End Title8:00 8:30 Check-in and refreshments

8:30 9:00 Opening Plenary Ian Baring-Gould, National Renewable Energy

Laboratory

Robert Grace, Sustainable Energy Advantage

Stacie Smith, Consensus Building Institute

9:00 10:15 Panel I:

The Use of Information in Wind Siting -

Lessons from the Field

Moderator:

Rob Garrity, MA Climate Action Network

Juliet Browne, Verrill Dana, MEAndy Brydges, MA Clean Energy Center

Sandy Levine, Conservation Law Foundation, VT

10:15 10:30 Break

10:30 11:30 Breakout A:

The Use of Information in Wind Siting -

Identification, Categorization and

Prioritization

Small group discussions on information needed

for effective wind siting decisions guided by a

series of questions and input from the pre-

workshop survey and Session I presentations.

11:45 12:45 Lunch On your own, MWCC Cafeteria;Self-guided tour of Wind Turbines

12:45 1:45 Panel II:

Developing Information in Wind Siting -

Joint Fact-finding and Stakeholder

Engagement Models

Moderator: Stacie Smith, CBI

Marty Suuberg, MA Department of

Environmental Protection

Danny Musher, University of Rhode Island

Suzanne McDonald, Island Institute

Andy Finton, The Nature Conservancy

1:45 2:45 Breakout B:Developing Information in Wind Siting

Overcoming Obstacles and Setting

Priorities

Participants will examine questions such as: How can information needed for wind siting

be developed such that it is legitimate,

credible, and salient?

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1:45 2:45 V. Breakout: Developing Information in Wind Siting

Overcoming Obstacles and Setting Priorities

Participants will examine questions such as:

How can information needed for wind siting be

developed such that it is legitimate, credible, and salient?

What are the obstacles to stakeholder engagement in

information gathering and how can they be overcome?

What can be done to institutionalize collaborative

processes to maximize efficiency and usefulness?

3:00 3:15 Break

3:15 4:30 VI. Plenary: Putting Ideas Into Action The workshop will culminate in a high level review of

presentations, panels, and prior breakout sessions.

Participants will take part in a

professionally facilitated full group discussion around:

Elements of a framework for informational resources.

A method for developing and deploying such resourcesduring stakeholder engagement processes.

A set of next steps, funding and a timeline.