Energy issues take center stage

By Matt Wagner
Springfield Business Journal Staff
2/11/2008

Organizers of the Ozarks New Energy Conference have assembled an all-star roster of experts that includes a biodiesel pioneer, a wind energy farm developer and a cellulosic ethanol researcher who has advised President Bush.

City Councilman Dan Chiles began floating the idea for the conference – set for Feb. 22–23 at the Gillioz Theatre and surrounding center city venues – shortly after taking office last year. Chiles, who is vice president of marketing for Watts Radiant, said a constant barrage of media reports about the country’s voracious appetite for fossil fuels propelled the event.

“The world’s changing, and we are now hostages to an uncertain energy future,” he said.

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