{"id":3584,"date":"2014-10-22T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:31:46","slug":"the-energy-council-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"The Energy Council Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On September 18-21, I attended the Energy Council\u2019s 2014 annual meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Energy Council does most of its work during four quarterly meetings that rotate among member states and Canadian provinces.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participating in the Council is an important part of our continuing efforts to develop Alaska\u2019s energy resources and foster greater collaboration between national policymakers and our state.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year\u2019s annual meeting highlighted oil and gas production issues such as advancements in technology, drilling concerns at the state and provincial level, landowner rights, shale gas, fossil energy exports, and federal\/state energy regulations.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also heard interesting presentations on cyber-security in the energy sector, electric power rates, an update on wind power, and energy education issues.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The conference was led by Texas State Representative, Wayne Smith, who has served as the Chairman of the Energy Council for the past year.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The chairmanship rotates each year and the annual meeting is when the Energy Council elects a new Chairman to serve for the upcoming year.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Louisiana State Senator John Smith was unanimously elected to serve as the Chairman.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I want to congratulate Senator Smith on his new chairmanship and thank Representative Smith for his adept leadership of the council over the last year.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18-21, I attended the Energy Council\u2019s 2014 annual meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Energy Council does most of its work during four quarterly meetings that rotate among member states and Canadian provinces.\u00a0 Participating in the Council is an important part of our continuing efforts to develop Alaska\u2019s energy resources and foster greater collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}