Panel Speakers
Ken Toole, Montana Public Service Commission
Mark Lambrecht, PPL Montana
Diego Rivas, Montanans for a Healthy Climate
Presentation Overview
Carbon cap-and-trade? Increased efficiency? Carbon tax? Education? What solutions can we employ as a nation, a state, and individuals to help us mitigate climate change and its impacts? Join us for a panel discussion on the promises and pitfalls of our options for addressing climate change, and how various policies would impact Montana and our region.
Speaker Bios
Ken Toole
Before serving as a Public Service Commissioner, Ken was a Montana Senator for 6 years, representing central Helena. In the 2005 he session served as Chairman of Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, Vice Chair of Senate Taxation Committee and Vice Chair Natural Resources Committee. As a Senator he sponsored legislation on net metering, universal system benefits programs, renewable power and Public Service Commission procedure.
Mark Lambrecht
Mark Lambrecht is PPL Montana’s Regulatory Affairs Manager. Mark has 20 years of experience in natural resource policy and environmental regulation and has been deeply involved in the issue of climate change.
Mark was appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer to serve on the Montana Climate Change Advisory Committee in 2006 and helped develop the state’s climate change strategy. He is also a member of the Board of the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership at Montana State University and a technical expert panelist for the Climate Registry.
Prior to joining PPL Montana, Mark was an environmental planner for a civil engineering firm in Helena, MT; a technology transfer director for Montana State University-TechLink in Bozeman, MT; a Section Supervisor for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality in Helena, MT and a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) in Washington, D.C. He has a Master’s Degree in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Montana College of Forestry and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Gonzaga University.
This is the final lecture of a four lecture series.
Location: Big Sky Community Library at Ophir School, Big Sky, Montana
Time: 7:00 pm
Co-Sponsored by:
Big Sky Institute
Big Sky Chamber of Commerce
For more information, contact Danielle Blank, Senior Outreach Coordinator of NPCA's Yellowstone Field Office at 406.222.4478 or dblank@npca.org.
