Forum: Energy & Natural Resources Committee

Full Committee Forum: Shale Development – Best Practices and Environmental Concerns

This forum will focus on the extraction of gas from shale. Particular topics of interest will be current best practices within the industry and environmental concerns to be addressed.

The forum will be webcast live on the committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the forum is complete.

A list of witnesses is below:

• Bureau of Land Management – representative to be announced
• Anadarko – Clay Bretches, Vice President, Exploration and Production Services and Minerals
• Baker Hughes – Alan Crain, Senior Vice President/Chief Legal and Governance Officer
• Environmental Defense Fund – Mark Brownstein, Associate Vice President & Chief Counsel, US Climate and Energy Program
• EQT Corporation – David Porges, Chairman/President/CEO
• Halliburton – Marc Edwards, Senior Vice President of Completion and Production
• Natural Resources Defense Council – Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Land and Wildlife Program
• Noble Energy, Inc. – Charles Davidson, Chairman/CEO
• Sierra Club – Deb Nardone, Director, Beyond Natural Gas Campaign
• West Virginia Environmental Council – Don Garvin, Legislative Coordinator, and member, Board of Directors for STRONGER (State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations), Inc.
• Texas Railroad Commission – Barry Smitherman, Chairman
• XTO Energy Inc. – Jack Williams, President

Additional witnesses may be added.

Date:

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 10:00 AM

Place:

216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

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