The next Energy Council meeting will be held June 20-23 in Bismarck, North Dakota for the 2013 State and Provincial Trends in Energy and Environment Conference. This is the first time the Energy Council has held a conference in North Dakota and I look forward to this opportunity. North Dakota State Senator Rich Wardner has invited the conferees to tour the Bakken oil field the day before the conference begins. We will visit a Bakken well site followed by a roundtable discussion with local officials on the impacts of Bakken development. During the conference, we will also visit the Great Plains Synfuels plant and the Freedom Mine. The Great Plains Synfuels plant is the only commercial-scale coal gasification plant in the United States and the cleanest energy plant in North Dakota. The nearby Freedom Mine delivers approximately 16 million tons of coal a year, making it the largest lignite mine in the U.S., and fuels the Synfuels plant.
We have lined up an impressive roster of speakers for the conference including state, provincial and federal officials, industry executives, analysts, and academics. Presentations will be offered on cross border energy infrastructure, enhanced oil recovery using CO2, Arctic shipping, model state and provincial oversight of oil and gas well integrity, Alberta’s oil sands, shipping oil by rail, and workforce development in the energy industry, among other topics.
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