Offshore Wind Meeting 2003

Objectives and Groundrules

RESOLVE Inc.
1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 875, Washington, DC 20037
202/944-2300 fax: 202/338-1264
Day 1: July 1, 2003 is for all interested parties
Day 2: July 2, 2003 is for government personnel only

OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVE: To provide a forum for the free and open exchange of views on offshore wind development, and to identify questions, research, technology, legal and process concerns that need to be addressed

GROUNDRULES

1. The meeting is without prejudice. To encourage open, honest, and creative dialogue in the best spirit of debate, all participants agree that views and statements made in the meeting will not be used in anyway to discredit, defame, or attack them in or after the meeting.
2. Participants will communicate with mutual respect. Only one person will speak at a time as called upon by the facilitator. Participants will refrain from personal attacks. Each person will express his or her own views rather than speaking for others at the table and not attribute motives to others.
3. Participants will seek understanding rather than imputing motives or attributes to others.
4. Each person is encouraged to generate options and ideas without commitment.
5. Each person will seek to identify areas of common ground where possible, without glossing over or minimizing legitimate disagreements.
6. The NWCC staff will prepare a meeting summary without attribution. Meeting summaries, capturing key ideas and issues will be prepared in draft, reviewed for accuracy, and then distributed to all parties at the same time for comment. The summaries will then be finalized by the facilitator, with all errors and omissions remaining the sole responsibility of the facilitators. The final summary will be distributed to all participants and loaded to the NWCC website.