2015 All NH Friends Gathering roundtable leaders for morning discussion about local and state challenges and opportunities

Roger Hawk, President at Hawk Planning Resources LLC [1]

Roger has been deeply involved with energy issues and environmental impacts in his work as a municipal planner and consultant.  He serves on the Concord City Energy Committee [2] and is active with the sustainability initiatives of South Congregational Church in Concord [3].  He was recently named by NH governor Maggie Hassan to be a public representative on the Site Evaluation Committee [4], which investigates applications for large energy projects.

Doug Bogen, Director of Seacoast Anti-Pollution League [5] and program director with Seacoast Area Renewable Energy Initiative [6]

Doug has been an environmental organizer and advocate for more than three decades, focusing on grassroots, citizen advocacy efforts and community-based solutions to our most challenging environmental issues.  He is currently focused on opposing the re-licensing of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, promoting renewable power alternatives and watch-dogging the clean up of superfund toxic waste sites at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.  He is also a founding member of Seacoast Peace Response [7] and the Portsmouth-Severodvinsk Connection [8].  He previously worked with Clean Water Action on issues of combating climate disruption, toxic contamination, particularly mercury and military waste, drinking water protection, cleaning up the state’s old fossil-fueled power plants and coastal water quality, serving as NH state program director for most of that time.  He holds a masters degree in Science and Environmental Education from Cornell University.

Dick Henry, Director of HotZero, LLC [9]; previously director at The Jordan Institute; former president of Audubon Society of NH

Dick has an extensive background on strategic energy and environment issues.  For more than six years at The Jordan Institute [10], he had an active role in energy policy in NH.  As one of only three non-profit members, he served on the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Board at the Public Utilities Commission [11], the advisory board to the PUC for the Regional Green House Gas Funds, the Renewable Portfolio Standard funds, and the Systems Benefit Charge funds.  He has also participated in the work groups of the Governor's Task Force on Climate Change serving on both the Residential, Commercial, and Industrial sub-committees and the Government Policy committee.  He also served on the CORE Energy Efficiency Advisory Board.  As a private consultant, he pioneered the first conversion in the country of a fifty-megawatt coal fired power plant to wood.  In the 1990’s he participated extensively in the electric utility restructuring process in New Hampshire and led a consortium of low-income, small business and environmental interests that helped develop the concept for a system benefit charge now producing over twenty million dollars a year for energy efficiency.