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Thursday 30 November 2006
Time Proceedings
9:00am Coffee
9:20am Welcome and Opening
9:30am Keynote Presentation - Decarbonising NZ's electricity generation; the opportunity of the century
Dr Morgan Williams, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
10:30am

break

11:00am Energy developments and impact assessment: regional perspectives
Energy impacts: regional issues and tools (Jill Thomson, Eclectic Energy, Cambridge))
Strategic environmental assessment: UK Perspectives (Michael McMullan, Beca)
Sustainability assessment and strategic planning: reflections from Western Australia (Jenny Pope, Murdoch University, Western Australia).
12:30pm

lunch

1:30pm Impact assessment and wind energy 
Overview (Dinah Williams, Councillor, Hawkes Bay)
Wind farms on our landscape and our lives (Clive Anstey, PLaCE)
Quantifying the visual effects of wind farms in South Australia (Andrew Lothian, Scenic Solutions, Sth Australia)
Assessment of noise of wind farms in New Zealand (Miklin Halstead, Marshall Day)
3:00pm

break

3:30pm Impact assessment and fossil fuels 
Air quality impacts (Paul Baynham, Northland Regional Council)
Beyond fossil fuels (Janet Stephenson, University of Otago)
5:00pm Posters: case studies, techniques, research (all aspects IA). Section for student posters, plus prize.
5:45pm

NZAIA AGM

ccc Conference Dinner - University Staff Club
Friday 01 December  2006
Time Proceedings
9:00am Impact assessment and hydro energy 
Assessment of effects for recreation and tourism (Rob Greenaway, RG & Associates)
Impacts on aquatic ecology (Ned Norton, NIWA)
Impacts on workforce and community (Gerard Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Applied Sociology)
10:30am

break

11:00am Consultation, Iwi and Community Partnerships
Impacts on workforce and community (Mark France, Meridian)
Iwi involvement (Paul Horgan, Ngai Tahu)
Governing rural landscapes and environments: the strategic role of local community and corporate partnerships (Roy Rickson, Griffith University, Australia)
12:30pm

lunch

1:30pm Monitoring, mitigation, and follow up studies
Follow-up: lessons for impact assessment (Angus Morrison-Saunders, Murdoch University, Western Australia)
Ex post studies (James Baines, Taylor Baines)
3:00pm

break

3:30pm Indaba 
(Open space discussion) 2-3 topics identified by participants as the conference proceeds
5:00pm Close
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