Energy Forum

• Main Author: L. Williams
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anchorage; Orga; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.639.9673; http://www.iaee.org/documents/2013EnergyForum4qtr.pdf

This year’s IAEE conference schedule was more than unusually compressed, with three major conferences since the last Newsletter. The International Conference was held in Daegu in mid-June, my first visit to South Korea and an opportunity to experi-ence the new high speed train from Seoul to Daegu. I would like to thank Professor Hoesung Lee for his excellent chairmanship of the conference and his dedicated Orga-nizing Committee. The breadth and depth of this conference was a tribute to their hard work. I was particularly struck by the youthful energy and rhetorical skill of the Mayor of the City of Daegu, Bum-il Kim, who received us at the Cultural Dinner and who took great pride in the role his city took in hosting international energy conferences. Not surprisingly, nuclear power and the impacts of U.S. shale gas on Asian LNG prices were much analysed at the conference. At the end of July the 32nd IAEE North American Conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, where my plane landed in dazzling sunlight at 10pm, after flying over spectacu-lar glaciers. Anchorage is a fine city, and many delegates hired bikes, often encounter-ing urban moose. The venue was the Captain Cook Hotel, reminding us of that intrepid explorer’s visit and the connections between Alaska and Japan, Russia and Australasia.