@GeoMiss Of particular note and flying under the radar, is the California Energy Commission's recent meeting in Imperial County to develop a California Lithium Recovery Initiative Policy. Last Wednesdays meeting was virtually a who's who of California stakeholders that support legislative and policy efforts to extract minerals from geothermal brines within California. MGX team lead by Randy Keller, including Preston McEachern, Anna Wall, and Senator Richard Polanco were able to brief all in attendance of MGX's development and identify barriers to realization of the technology.
Entire attendance list below:
California Lithium Recovery Initiative
May 22, 2019 – 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Affiliation§Name
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Jonathan Weisgall
BHE Renewables Eric Besseling
Bloomberg NEG Logan Goldie-Scot
Bloomberg NEG Rob Glen
Bureau of Land Management Mark Chatterton
CA Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources Charlene Wardlow
CA State Lands Commission Greg Pelka
California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild
California Energy Commission Commissioner Karen Douglas
California Energy Commission Lindsay Buckley
California Energy Commission Natalie Lee
California Energy Commission Michael Sokol
California Energy Commission Elisabeth de Jong
California Energy Commission Garry Maurath
Capstone Headwaters Anna Wall
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies V. John White
CNRA Salton Sea Policy Bruce Wilcox
Controlled Thermal Resources Jim Turner
Controlled Thermal Resources Rod Colwell
Edison International Caroline Choi
Energy Source Minerals Derek Benson
Former California State Senator Richard Polanco
General Electric Joseph Heinzmann
Geothermal Resources Council Will Petitt
Geothermal Solutions Will Osborn
GeothermEx§ James Lovekin
Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Tyson Eckerle
IBEW Local 569 Micah Mitrosky
Imperial County Andy Horne
Imperial County Planning Jim Minnick
Imperial Irrigation District Henry Martinez
Lawrence Livermore National Lab AJ Simon
Lithium Selective Technologies, Inc. Tom Currin
Marniship Development Interest LLC Derek Smith
MGX Minerals, Inc. Randy Keller
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Dr. David Ginley
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Parthiv Kurup
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Kate Young
New Energy Nexus Danny Kennedy
New Energy Nexus Ken Alston
New Roc Energy Partners II, LLC Norman Birmingham
Office of Assembly member Eduardo Garcia Miguel Romero
PurLucid§ Dr. Preston McEachern
Salton Sea Authority Phil Rosentrater
Sandia National Laboratories Patrick Sullivan
Senior Field Representative, Office of Juan Vargas Tomas Oliva
SRI International Susanna Ventura
U.S. Department of Energy Josh Mengers
UC Riverside Wilfred Elders