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Advance Conference Program
Wednesday, November 7
8:00 a.m. Daybreak Coffee
Hosted by Torys LLP
8:30 am Keynote: Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader
9:00 am Realistic options for getting to truer and more effective
price signals
In the ongoing effort to refine the market and improve price fidelity, where is
progress most likely to come from? In a hybrid market like Ontario’s where
capacity is assured through contracts, what are the critical functions that the
price must serve?
Bruce Campbell, Vice President of Resource Integration, IESO
Neil Campbell, Market Surveillance Panel
Cliff Hamal, Navigant Economics
Rob Cary, President, Robert Cary & Associates Inc. and APPrO director
Moderator: Georges Arbache, KPMG Ltd.
0:00 am Coffee break
Hosted by Veresen Inc.
0:30 am The ever-changing gas market – how generators are
responding
Moderator: Richard King, Norton Rose Canada LLP
Innovations in contracting for gas
� How generators are adapting the pricing and structure of fuel contracts to
fit a range of thermal procurement situations
� What’s required to secure 20 year fuel contracts
Peter Podurgiel, Competitive Power Ventures
Overview of Ontario regulatory activities of concern to gas-fired generators
John Wolnik, GSA Energy Company Inc.
Summary of TCPL ML Tolls case, and update on other ratemaking issues
Ian Mondrow, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Union’s upstream projects including Parkway West, Dawn Expansions and
the NEXUS project
Clancy O’Hara, Union Gas Limited
Enbridge’s GTA Reinforcement project - Growing gas supply needs in the
GTA
Malini Giridhar, Enbridge Inc.
The continental picture
Bruce Henning, ICF International
noon Lunch in the Networking Centre
Hosted by Northland Power, the APPrO 0 Platinum sponsor
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Simultaneous session
0:30 am Project approvals and positive community relations
Whether a project is Aboriginal, co-operative, community-owned or
private, ensuring there is support from the community as well as the
required official approvals is key. What are the essential ingredients for
success in public and legal terms?
Jake Sadikman, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP: Moderator
Overview from the Ministry on the first three years of the REA system
Doris Dumais, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
REA appeals: What can be learned from the experience to date
Adam Chamberlain, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Scientific assessment of health risk
Christopher Ollson, Intrinsik Environmental Sciences
What’s behind a good community relationship?
Christine Koenig, Koenig & Consultants
Developer’s view on what would reduce risk
Anthony Zlahtic, Capital Power
Moderator: Jake Sadikman, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
:00 pm Keynote
Andrea Horwath, Leader, Ontario NDP
:30 pm Future generation procurement – opportunities,
principles and proposals
Starting with a re-examination of the supply and demand forecasts for
Ontario, this session will look at the need for and timing of new generation
resources in the near future. What do the most realistic projections tell us
about the design of the next round of procurement?
� How should future procurement operate given the expected merger of
the OPA and the IESO?
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What else is needed to create the right conditions for new generation
investment?
Moderator: Jim Harbell, Stikeman Elliott
Jason Chee-Aloy, Power Advisory LLC: Where are the generation
opportunities, considering alternative long term supply demand scenarios
Jim MacDougall, Compass Renewable Energy Consulting Inc.
and Ryerson’s Centre for Urban Energy: Smaller scale distributed
generation in future procurements, including renewables and CHP
Questions and Discussion