Marianne Horinko, President of the Horinko Group, Washington, DC and former Acting Administrator of the EPA, and I will be co-hosting the 22nd Annual International Energy Policy (IEPC) Conference event on Thursday, November 13th, 2014 in Washington, DC.
The conference was founded in 1992. I founded and continue to chair the annual event. The purpose of the conference is to bring stakeholders together from not only the energy sector but also concerned citizens, representatives from government, agriculture, education, environment, business, students and others.
Issues that will be addressed include: hydraulic fracturing, federal legislation, water preservation, endangered species, and federal regulations.
Marianne Horinko and I made presentations on the subject of “Energy, Environment and Politics” in late 2012. The presentations were the kick-off of the Mentoring Environment and Energy Together (MEET) Mentor-Protégé Program held at Devon Energy’s headquarters in Oklahoma City. Participants also visited a Devon Energy drilling and hydraulic fracturing well site.
This effort builds on The Horinko Group’s release of its comprehensive white paper on the current and future environmental, regulatory, and legal issues tied to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing and upon my book, “America Needs America’s Energy: Creating Together the People’s Energy Plan”.
IEPC has had several honorary conference chairs including former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick who served three times, US Senator Don Nickles, and US Ambassador Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan.
The conference has been hosted by various sponsors, corporations and organizations since its founding including The Oklahoma Royalty Company, The Energy Advocates, the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce, the US Department of Energy, Sarkeys Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma, People to People International, and the American Gas Association.
The involvement of these organizations has contributed to the conference’s success.
Past conferences have been held in Washington, DC, Tulsa, Denver, Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City.
The theme of the first conference and continues to be at the forefront of the conference each year is “Striving for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Preservation”.
This year’s event will focus on 1) prioritizing energy usage, 2) establishing guidelines for environmental preservation, 3) achieving energy efficiency both residentially and businesses, 4) developing and maintaining energy infrastructure and 5) creating a working energy sustainability plan(s) and goal(s).
For information about attending the conference, please contact me at mark@thegtdgroup.com.
The message is clear: America Needs America’s Energy! Together we can Create the People’s Energy Plan! “Striving for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Preservation” can be achieved. Go to www.peoplesenergyplan.com to join the effort.
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