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Students and Families Gather in Denver to Learn About STEM Education and the Energy Industry

DENVER, CO – Gathered in front of East High School in Denver, children, parents, teachers and families joined Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), the Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF), and over 65 organizations from across Colorado at the second annual Energy Day Festival, a STEM and energy education event showcasing interactive exhibits and hands-on experiments. With so many types of organizations participating to encourage educating children on a very important subject for our state, Governor Hickenlooper, through the Colorado Energy Office, proclaimed Saturday, September 22nd as Energy Day in Colorado.

Attendees also included the first ever, off-season FIRST Robotics competition with over 300 kids on 17 teams that came in from across Colorado and Wyoming to showcase their robots. The FIRST program aims to ‘inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs’.

With over 45 interactive exhibits from a wide range of energy organizations – ranging from education and research to renewables and utilities, as well as oil and gas – that came out to showcase various types of energy production, technology, and efficiencies used across the energy industry.

Between traditional and renewable sources, the energy industry will need to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs. Which is why teachers, school districts and educators are teaming up with energy companies to create programs to get kids excited about STEM careers early.

More than just promoting interest in energy and STEM education, Energy Day recognized students in various science competitions from around the state giving away more than $6000 in scholarships for their achievements. In addition to the day’s exhibitors and awards ceremony, guests were treated to food from local food truck vendors and free water from Denver Water.

Following the day’s festivities, CEA Chief Operating Officer, and local Colorado resident, Andrew Browning said:

“From solar and wind applications to oil and gas development, energy labs and Colorado universities, Energy Day Colorado 2018 was a huge success and did a great job highlighting the importance, diversity, and impact of the Colorado energy industry.”

Browning also added: “These exhibitors really went the extra mile to ensure kids and their families had fun. All of the exhibits demonstrated how technology and efficiencies have helped lead these industries forward. From the technologies that help these companies operate to schools who presented fun ways to understand robotics and physics – these organizations also helped teach participants about fun ways to conserve and be more energy efficient through quizzes and displays. With how focused Coloradoans are on STEM education and our future, it is no doubt that this will be an event our community can stand behind.”

Some of this year’s sponsors dedicated to STEM education and energy included Anadarko, PDC Energy, S&P Global, Noble Energy, Xcel Energy, Risas Dental and Braces, Whiting Petroleum, SM Energy.

To view photos from this year’s Energy Day Colorado or to receive more information about how to participate in next year’s Energy Day, please visit www.energydayfestival.org.

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About Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) brings together families, farmers, small businesses, distributors, producers and manufacturers to support America’s energy future. With more than 450,000 members nationwide, our mission is to help ensure stable prices and energy security for households across the country. We believe energy development is something that touches everyone in our nation, and thus it is necessary for all of us to actively engage in the conversation about how we develop our diverse energy resources and energy’s importance to the economy. Learn more at ConsumerEnergyAlliance.org.

Media Contact:
Emily Haggstrom
P: 720-582-0242
ehaggstrom@consumerenergyalliance.org

Robot Smackdowns, Hovering Drones Were Among the Draws at Energy Day

This year, Energy Day Colorado, co-hosted by Consumer Energy Alliance and the Consumer Energy Education Foundation, brought hands-on STEM learning to families across the region.

When Nancy Kreitler saw an advertisement for Energy Day she knew where she wanted to take her grandchildren Saturday. Part of her reward was a strawberry slushy her 8-year-old grandson, Rhys Kreitler, produced using pedal power — a blender hooked up to a stationary bike ground the ice as the wheels turned.

Read more – The Denver Post

Natural Gas Industry Consumer, Business Numbers Impressive

Mom cooking with children

CEA’s latest report, “Everyday Energy for Pennsylvania,” was referenced by The Sentinel in talking about Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and environmental safeguards.

The natural gas industry is an easy whipping boy for a wide variety of opponents who have varying beliefs that put them in conflict with the industry.

And to the extent that the opposition holds the natural gas industry’s feet to the fire regarding environmental issues related to the production of the energy, the opposition is a good thing.

But beyond that, any objective observer of the numbers regarding the industry’s results in Pennsylvania would conclude its ascent in the state over the past decade has been a good thing.

According to the Consumer Energy Alliance, Pennsylvanians saved more than $30.5 billion between 2006 and 2016 due to increased natural gas production, with savings almost equally divided between residential and commercial users.

Read more – The Sentinel

Support American-made Energy Over Foreign Energy

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For the first time since 1973, the United States is the world’s largest oil producer.

It’s a historic milestone and a reminder of the hard-working, American men and women who have helped make it possible.

Add your name in continued support of American-made energy over foreign energy.

American-made energy means more high-paying jobs…

…lower energy costs for hard-working families…

…and less dependency on other oil-rich countries with unstable governments.

So please, add your name to support American-made energy over foreign energy today.

Support American-made Energy Over Foreign Energy

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Don’t Let Big Green Fool You with Proposition 112

Young apprentice using pillar drill in steel fabrication factory

CEA’s Emily Haggstrom discusses how Proposition 112, which is an attempt to ban energy development in Colorado, will cause the state to lose up to $218 billion and 147,000 jobs if passed in November.

Maybe it won’t be your job, but it’ll be someone you know. Maybe they’re a mechanic, a nanny or a server. It could be your neighbor, or your coworker’s son or daughter.

The number 147,000 doesn’t discriminate, and not all those jobs will come in oil and gas. Lost paychecks will also come in fields impacted or aided by the industry, like restaurants, hotels and grocery stores — many of whose customers work in energy — and schools, police and fire stations, which lean on revenue and taxes paid by local energy.

Read more – Daily Camera

Survey Underscores Importance of Record-Low Energy Costs Made Possible by Shale

Getting Ready for a Road Trip

CEA’s reports around consumer savings and job creation as a result of natural gas development in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia were highlighted by Energy in Depth.

A trio of recent Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) reports reveal the shale revolution has had even more dramatic positive effects where development is taking place. Thanks to record production in the Appalachian Basin – home of the prolific Marcellus and Utica shales – the region now boasts the lowest natural gas prices in the world, saving Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia residents a combined $80 billion on their natural gas bills from 2006 to 2016.

Read more – Energy in Depth

Launching Students into High-tech Careers

With Energy Day Colorado just around the corner, CEA’s Andrew Browning talks about the importance of bringing hands-on STEM education to kids and what they can find at Energy Day this year.

“Encouraging students by providing a space for them to see and experience the skills necessary to solve big-world problems in energy is the reason we put on one of the biggest STEM events in Denver,” says Andrew Browning, chief operating officer of Consumer Energy Alliance, one of the hosts of this year’s Energy Day event in Denver.

Read more – ColoradoBiz

Pipeline Foes Missing Point

CEA’s Tim Page examines the real-world impact shutting down critical energy infrastructure projects in the name of politics has on families across the state.

It’s bad policy to keep thousands of workers from making a living. But that’s what happened when work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline was recently put on hold by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in response, it appears, from activists’ outcries – a stop-order that has since been lifted for most of the project. More distressing is the rhetoric from groups claiming to be environmental enforcers. From threatening and stalking to vandalizing and damaging property, these extremists lack common decency and are a harbinger of the wider uncivil “resist” movement sweeping today’s political landscape

Read more – Smith Mountain Eagle

Getting Approval for Pipelines Can Be Taxing

Construction Workers Cutting Plywood

Mike Butler, CEA’s Mid-Atlantic Executive Director talks about the importance of sound permitting policies, based on science and not political hyperbole, when reviewing critical infrastructure projects.

Permitting regimes like FERC are designed to instruct companies and interested parties what they must do to comply with the law and get approval, not deny or delay proposals out of hand. The fact that only a small number of proposals have been outright denied by FERC is because we have a regulatory process that ensures our government makes decisions based on law, not politics and hyperbole — especially when pipelines remain the safest, most eco-friendly way to transport energy.

Read more – Bucks County Courier Times

Report: West Virginians Saved More Than $4 Billion from Lower Natural Gas Prices

Harpers Ferry West Virginia

CHARLESTON, W.V.  — Thanks to increased production and new technologies, which have decreased the price of natural gas, West Virginians saved more than $4 billion between 2006 and 2016, according to a state report released today by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), with calculations developed by Orion Strategies.

Households saved nearly $1.6 billion and commercial and industrial users saved more than $2.7 billion according to the report titled “Powering West Virginia.” The analysis examines how the shale revolution in the Marcellus and Utica regions have helped energy consumers in the Mountain State increase disposable income, job growth, and economic investment, as well as revitalize communities.

CEA’s analysis also found that since 2010, West Virginia’s core shale-related industry employment increased 77.54 percent, employing nearly 12,000 people. In comparison, all industries combined experienced just a 15.74 percent change in employment. Also, oil and gas pipeline construction jobs grew from almost 1,800 at the end of 2016 to 5,130 by the end of the third quarter in 2017 – a 185-percent increase.

Highlights from the report include:

  • Expanded natural gas production across the state saved consumers nearly $4.3 billion between 2006 and 2016. Residential users saved almost $1.6 billion; commercial and industrial users saved over $2.7 billion.
  • Since 2010, West Virginia’s core shale-related industry employment increased 77.54 percent, employing nearly 12,000 West Virginians. In comparison, all industries in West Virginia only experienced a 15.74 percent change in employment.
  • On average, each West Virginian spent $3,910 on energy-related needs in 2016. For those living at or below poverty, this translates to roughly one-third of their income.

“This report highlights how West Virginia’s families and energy users benefit from the production of West Virginia’s natural resources and the ability to transport that energy through pipeline infrastructure, all of which provides millions of dollars annually to fund our schools, hospitals, roads, and communities,” said Chris Ventura, CEA Midwest’s Executive Director. “The mining and production of traditional energy resources, like natural gas, have supported communities throughout the state for generations and has been integral in bringing affordable energy to the rest of the country for years. We are pleased to see how lower fuel prices have helped West Virginians save more than $4 billion in the past decade.”

Ventura added, “Fortunately, the benefits from increased production are not just limited to consumer savings; energy development has also increased shale-related industry employment 77.54 percent since 2010, employing nearly 12,000 West Virginians.”

“Despite the tremendous benefits and critical importance of energy production to the Mountain State, future progress is threatened by out-of-state activists, some funded by foreign governments, who continue to work to eliminate the production and transportation of safe, affordable sources of energy without offering any solutions that will help meet consumer demand while supporting our environmental goals. CEA strongly encourages West Virginia’s elected leaders to continue their support of energy solutions that allow for the responsible development of American energy resources which help keep energy affordable for everyone.”

To view the report, click here.

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About Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) brings together families, farmers, small businesses, distributors, producers and manufacturers to support America’s energy future. With more than 500,000 members nationwide, our mission is to help ensure stable prices and energy security for households across the country. We believe energy development is something that touches everyone in our nation, and thus it is necessary for all of us to actively engage in the conversation about how we develop our diverse energy resources and energy’s importance to the economy. Learn more at ConsumerEnergyAlliance.org.

Contact:
Emily Haggstrom
P: 720-582-0242
mailto:ehaggstrom@consumerenergyalliance.org

 

About Orion Strategies

Orion Strategies is a strategic communications and public relations firm with a staff of experienced professionals in public relations, government affairs, grassroots advocacy, polling, research, and creative services.

Contact:

Brittany Ramos
P: 412-965-5379
bramos@orion-strategies.com

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