Climate Change Project

Draft Final Climate Action Plan - December 19, 2008

Draft Final Climate Action Plan

Appendix 1 - Climate Science

Appendix 2 - Task Force Process

Appendix 3 - Public Comments

Appendix 4 - Energy Generation Action Reports

Appendix 5 - Residential Commercial and Industrial Action Reports

Appendix 7 - Agriculture, Forestry and Waste Action Reports

Appendix 8 - Government Leadership and Action Reports

Appendix 9 - Adaptation Action Reports 

Appendix 10 - Carbon Solutions New England Analysis Tables

Appendix 11 - Carbon Solutions New England Approach and Assumption

Public Comments - New Additional Potential EGU Actions

During a two week public comment period regarding the four new, additional, potential EGU Actions, NHDES received comments from 14 individuals. These comments are summarized below and complete copies of the comments are included as well.

The summaries simply report the positions asserted by the indoividuals and organizations that contributed comments, and do not represent NHDES’s position and have not undergone any fact-checking.

Comment Summary:

New Potential EGU Action Written Public Comment Summary

Complete Comments:

Compiled Emails - Additional EGU Action Comments

The following documents are not being presented as individual documents on this page to draw any special attention to their contents. Each of the following documents were submitted to NHDES via email as PDFs and could not be compiled with the previous set of compiled email comments.

CLF - Additional EGU Action Comments

Kreis - Additional EGU Action Comments

NEPGA - Additional EGU Action Comments

NHWEA - Additional EGU Action

NHWEA - NH GHG Renewables

NHWEA - GHG Statewide

Transcanada-Kapala - Additional EGU Action Comment

6th Task Force Meeting Materials

The materials provided at the 6th Climate Change Policy Task Force meeting on October 10, 2008 at Plymouth State University include:

6th Task Force Meeting Agenda

Science References Regarding Climate Change

Climate Change Action Plan Straw Proposal

CSNE Analysis of Potential Actions

Additional EGU Action Reports

Draft Action Plan Implementation Plan Outline

Draft Action Plan Outline

Task Force - Fifth Meeting

For your planning purposes, I have attached the draft Agenda for the for the next Climate Change Policy Task Force meeting, which will take place on Friday, September 12, 2008 from 9:30 AM – 4 PM at the Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth, NH 03801. Please note that this meeting will be starting at 9:30 AM - a half hour later than normal. Coffee, juice and light refreshments will be available starting at 9 AM for those who arrive early. In addition to the draft meeting agenda, there is a draft Conceptual Plan, which outlines the proposed approach, which will be used to initiate identification of those actions that may form the core of the final Climate Change Action Plan later this fall. This document outlines potential core principles, which would guide the final plan development process. The Conceptual Plan also includes a table that contains a subset of the 100+ actions, which are still under consideration. This table includes actions that the Task Force may want to consider for inclusion in the Action Plan first, before it moves on to evaluate the remaining actions. The introduction and discussion of these concepts will occupy the majority of the meeting.An example of the set of matrices that have been developed to support these discussions has also been attached to this email for your review. Revised copies of the CSNE analysis will also be available to inform this discussion. NHDES will bring a set of all the materials for each Task Force member to the meeting.Thank you again for your participation in this valuable effort.  Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Documents that will be brought include:Meeting Agenda Draft Conceptual Plan

Email: cskoglund@des.state.nh.us 

Draft NH Climate Change Action Reports - September 8th

The following draft Action Reports contain the most recent work to date from each of the Working Groups engaged in the NH Climate Change Action Plan. The most current version of the analyses conducted by CSNE has been added to each report where applicable.

Copies of this version of the Action Reports have been posted on the NHDES Climate Change Policy Task Force webpage in order to allow NH reisdents to review the documents in advance of the Public Listening Sessions, which will be held around the state between September 15th and 29th.

Please contact Chris Skoglund, NH DES Christopher.Skoglund@des.nh.gov by or 603-271-7624 if you have any questions or comments.

Adaptation (ADP) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Agriculture Forestry and Waste (AFW) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Electric Generation and Use (EGU) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Government Leadership and Action (GLA) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Residential, Commercial and Industrial (RCI) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Transportation and Land Use (TLU) Action Reports - September 8, 2008

Completed Action Reports for Review - August 18th

The following draft Action Reports contain the most recent work to date from each of the Working Groups engaged in the NH Climate Change Action Plan. The most current version of the analyses conducted by CSNE has been added to each report where applicable.

Please note, the Summaries for each Action Reports are in still in draft format and may be awaiting further editing for readability and consistency.

Please submit any substantive comments regarding these Action Reports to Chris Skoglund (Christopher.Skoglund@des.nh.gov) by Monday September 1st. These comments will then be integrated into the exisitng Action Reports by September 8th. The next round of revisions will then be released in advance of the Public Listening Sessions, which will be held around the state between September 15th and 29th.

Adaptation (ADP) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Agriculture Forestry and Waste (AFW) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Electric Generation and Use (EGU) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Government Leadership and Action (GLA) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Residential, Commercial and Industrial (RCI) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Transportation and Land Use (TLU) Action Reports - August 18, 2008

Working Group Action Reports - Draft Summaries

The following Draft Action Report Summaries contain the most recent work to date from each of the Working Groups engaged in the NH Climate Change Action Plan. Please note, the Summaries for each Action Reports are in draft format and may still be awaiting further editing. The full Action Reports will be released in mid-August.

Adaptation Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Agriculture, Forestry and Waste Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Electric Generation Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Residential, Commercial and Industrial Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Transportation and Land Use Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Government Leadership and Action Working Group - Action Report Summaries

Revised CCAP Draft Action Reports

Revised AFW Action Reports - July 15

Revised EGU Action Reports - July 15

Revised RCI Action Reports - July 15

Revised TLU Action Reports - July 21

Action 4.5 - An Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Systems Web Portal

rci-action-4.5-06-26-08.doc

Complete Set of Updated AFW Action Reports

AFW Action Reports - 06.04.08