CEA’s Chris Ventura discussed how West Virginians are seeing benefits from energy production throughout their communities as new jobs with higher wages are being created every day.
The availability of low-cost natural gas for use in the manufacturing process or as a feedstock for other local industries has made this region one of the best locations for traditional and advanced manufacturers to expand.
Read more – The Dominion Post
CEA Southeast Executive Director Tim Page commented on the importance of offshore energy exploration to South Carolina’s economy.
The development of offshore resources will help reduce the costs of manufacturing electric and traditional vehicles. That is a must-have for a state whose automotive industry, per reports, has more than 400 suppliers and other companies that employ about 66,000 workers. It would also lower the price of electricity and gasoline.
Read more – The Post and Courier
Consumer Energy Alliance’s Rockies chapter has been educating energy consumers across the state with forums like the one held in Grand Junction to see how American energy development impacts manufacturing and family budgets.
Thursday morning at the Grand Vista Hotel, an Energy and Manufacturing Forum was held to discuss many topics about energy and manufacturing on the Western Slope ranging from water rights for the Colorado River as well as the oil & gas industry returning to the Grand Valley, and at the helm of the discussion was Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton.
Read more – KREX
Texas is in the midst of an unprecedented increase in oil and natural gas production. As a result of this, pipelines are expected to reach capacity, preventing additional supplies of energy from being delivered to consumers.
“If you are a pipeline company, you need to do something now,” said John Zanner, an analyst at consultants RBN Energy LLC. “Pipes are filling up from Midland to the Gulf and how full they are for how long will have an impact on price.”
Read more – Reuters
American energy production is at all-time highs providing us with an opportunity to become energy independent. Yet a lack of energy infrastructure threatens our ability to truly become energy secure.
North America’s great oil surge of 2018 amid the highest oil prices in more than three years is threatened by pipeline gridlock from West Texas to Alberta and oil investors have yet to fully appreciate the implications, according to Energy Aspects Ltd.
Read more – Bloomberg
CEA’s Brent Greenfield was interviewed at the Offshore Technology Conference
“A more collaborative and cooperative approach between government and industry” marks the key legislative and regulatory trends that the U.S. offshore industry has witnessed since the 2017 OTC, Brent Greenfield, CEA’s vice president of policy, told Rigzone. In addition, he said the federal government is implementing a policy agenda that “recognizes the importance of American offshore energy to U.S. jobs, a robust economy, strengthened national security and environmental leadership.”
Read more – The Port City News
CEA’s Chris Ventura had the opportunity to sit down with Inside Shale to talk about CEA’s Campaign for America’s Energy in West Virginia as well as the Energy Consumer Protection Pledge.
Listen here – Inside Shale
From pipelines in Florida to North Dakota, and projects in-between, American energy independence is under assault by foreign governments like Russia that are trying to stop our energy renaissance by funding propaganda meant to divide Americans.
Sabal Trail got only passing mention in the committee’s report. But based on an analysis of data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the committee found that the Russian trolls had posted, tweeted or retweeted at least 9,097 times about U.S. energy projects or environmental issues between 2015 and 2017, about half as much as their election-related activity during that span. Other accounts originating in Russia also weighed in on pipelines, climate change and similar subjects.
Read more – McClatchy DC
CEA Mid-Atlantic’s Mike Butler spoke out against Governor Wolf’s latest attempt at a severance tax, which will ultimately impact Pennsylvanians least able to afford higher energy costs.
Unconventional drilling on the Marcellus Shale has had a big economic impact on the region, said Mike Butler, Consumer Energy Alliance’s Mid-Atlantic executive director, calling the gas production a “tremendous blessing to Pennsylvania.”
It has “not only generated an impressive increase in jobs and economic growth, but it has also substantially reduced household energy costs, revitalized and provided opportunities for our skilled trades and cemented Pennsylvania’s role as a national energy leader.”
Read more – The Bradford Era
Houston, TX — Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), a national advocate for energy consumers, convened a policy panel discussion at the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), in Houston, about “Offshore Energy: Safety, Technology and Production – Governmental Perspectives.” This year’s panel gathered state and federal leaders to discuss industry-government collaboration and cross-governmental perspectives on offshore energy safety, technology, and production in the United States.
With a new national offshore oil and gas leasing program being developed for 2019-2024, this panel discussion comes at a critical time, since it addressed how a vibrant U.S. offshore energy industry underpinned by cutting-edge technology and collaboration on safety contributes to the economic, energy, and environmental security of the United States.
“Consumer Energy Alliance is proud to host today’s panel discussion at the Offshore Technology Conference,” said David Holt, president of CEA. “This dialogue, coupled with the innovation and technological advances on display at OTC and our decades-long history of environmental improvement, demonstrates that energy solutions and environmental improvement CAN and MUST go hand-in-hand.”
Maine Governor Paul R. LePage highlighted challenges confronting Mainers when it comes to access to affordable and reliable energy, and how offshore energy development could help bring relief to his state:
“Our electric and natural gas cost are unnecessarily high because access to cheap gas from the Marcellus shale formation is blocked to the south and west by New York and Massachusetts,” said LePage. “This blocked access may ultimately lead to rolling brownouts as we are forced to choose between light and heat.”
Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Chairman, U.S. House Natural Resources Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, expressed the importance of industry-government collaboration by stating, “As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, I understand the importance of protecting our environment while promoting safe and responsible development of energy resources. I remain committed to working with the Department of Interior and the oil and gas industry to continue working together on improvements of safe operations.”
Scott Angelle, Director, U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement discussed the importance of offshore energy safety by stating, “Offshore is important to America because of the jobs it creates and the royalties it produces.”
“We can have both. We are not an either-or nation. We can have robust production and do it in an environmentally friendly way.”
“It starts with safety, safety, safety and environment, environment, environment.”
Highlighting the importance of offshore production in Louisiana, Garret Graves, U.S. Representative (LA-06) stated, “The reality is that oil and gas plays a fundamental role in the economy of the United States and the entire world.”
“As we move forward on energy policy, we have got to stay focused on facts. In Louisiana, we have one of the most productive estuaries in the [North American] continent. We’re the top producer of fisheries in the Lower 48. We certainly can co-manage these in an environmentally safe manner. Things are absolutely getting safer. It’s amazing the places that innovation and technology have gone today.”
Highlighting the importance of offshore production to Alabama, Gerald Allen, Chairman, Alabama Senate Transportation & Energy Committee Allen stated, “Policymakers need to be sensitive to working men and women. We need to ask ourselves, ‘How can we ensure consumers are taken care of?’ When we talk about energy policy we need to keep in the front of mind the working men and women of America. In Alabama, offshore energy production has funded a trust fund that is now funded at the level of $3 billion. The interest alone on that trust fund has funded multiple health and family services programs.”
Allen continued: “When you do look at the environment, we need to simultaneously build the Alabama trust fund, and protect the environment so that future generations can benefit from the policies we decided on today.”
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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.
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