MGA Energy & Jobs Forum

MidwestAgNet.com
Posted: Oct 12, 2009 12:53 PM CDT

(Bioenergy Weekly Dispatch) (October 12, 2009) The Midwestern Governors Association held an Energy and Jobs Forum in Detroit last week to release its Platform for Creating and Retaining Midwestern Jobs in the New Energy Economy, the Midwestern Energy Infrastructure Accord and the Midwestern Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Roadmap. The advisory group recommendations contained in the roadmap have been in development since November 2007 when the governors agreed to goals laid out in the MGA's Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Platform for the Midwest.

The Energy Roadmap provides a menu of state policy options for the region's governors to adopt that would be most applicable to their state's individual and unique needs and circumstances to meet the goals of the Energy Platform. Great Plains Institute has been one of the organizations working with the MGA to help facilitate and staff groups of stakeholders to develop the documents released last week at the Forum.

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