FRACKING
Kathy J. Martin, Martin Environmental Services, LLC
Kathy J. Martin has worked for the
Oklahoma Water Resources Board
FRACKING & WATERZachariah Hildenbrand, UT Arlington
Dr. Zachariah Hildenbrand is a
Below are some of our conrmed event speakers from across the country. For more details, go to earthwindresummit.org
WIND Andrew Swift,Texas Tech University
Dr. Andrew Swift is the Associate Director of the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University - focused on wind energy education and workforce development. Dr. Swift has worked in renewable energy research and education for over 30 years, with many published articles in wind turbine engineering and renewable energy. In 1995, he received the American Wind Energy Society Academic Award for continuing contributions to wind energy technology.
OIL TRANSPORTPaul BlackburnPipeline Safety Trust
Paul Blackburn is an energy and environmental law attorney based in Minneapolis. He provides legal and consutling services on pipeline, electric utility and mining matters. He has provided policy analysis and strategic advice on a variety of pipeline issues and authored papers on pipeline and safety response. Paul started his career in Washington DC at the
law rm of Van Ness Feldman and holds a BA in
Biology from Macalester College and a JD from Boston College Law School.
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOP I
Jeff Crilley, former Channel 4 reporter
Former Emmy award winning TV reporter Jeff Crilley will share the secrets of how to get “Free Media with No Money.” Learn how to get good news stories covered by the media, including how to get them coming back to you for more.
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOP II
Shelley Koer, Randy Lee Loftis, Paul Adrian - Print/Radio/TV Journalists
A second workshop will include Shelley Koer of KERA, Randy Lee Loftis of the
Dallas Morning News
, former TV reporter Paul Adrian, and other journalists who will conduct a panel with insights on today’s coverage in environmental news.
GEOTHERMALMaria Richards, SMU
Dr. Maria Richards, coordinator of SMU’s Geothermal Lab, will be shar-ing vital information on renewable energy tapped from the earth’s internal heat. Serving as a cen-ter for excellence for more than 42 years, SMU’s Geothermal dept. has been awarded over $9 million from the U.S. Dept. of Energy, National Sci-
ence Foundation, Texas State Energy ofce, and
others to research this clean renewable source.
WINDGabriel Alonso, AWEA
Gabriel Alonso is the current chair of the American Wind Energy Associa-
tion (AWEA) and the Chief Executive Ofcer for
EDP Renewables North America, the third largest producer of wind energy in the world. EDPR has
grown vefold in its installed capacity since Alonso
joined the company, from 800 to 4,000 megawatts with 29 wind farms across the country.Daniel Cohan is an Associate Pro-
COAL Daniel Cohan, Rice UniversityNUCLEARArjun Makhijani, IEER
Arjun Makhijani, President of the In-stitute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), holds a Ph.D. in engineering
(specialization: nuclear fusion) from the Univ. of California at Berkeley. Over the past 20 years, he
has produced many studies and articles regarding the nuclear fuel cycle and related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste.
He is the principal author of the rst study (com
-pleted in 1971) on energy conservation potential in the U.S. economy.fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dept. at Rice University. His research specializes
in photochemical modeling and their application
to air quality management, energy policy, and
health impact studies. Current research includes examining how uncertainty in modeling impacts
environmental decisionmaking, exploring air qual
-ity and implications of growing electricity demand. In 2013, Cohan authored a report exploring the
retrotting of older Texas coal-red facilities with
modern emission controls.
ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGEAl Armendariz, Sierra Club
Dr. Al Armendariz is one of six senior
national campaign representatives for
the Sierra Club, overseeing the organization’s work in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Dr. Armendariz previously served three years as EPA Administrator for the Region 6 ofce in Dallas.
Prior to his appointment, he spent eight years as a professor in the Department of Civil and Environ-mental Engineering at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas. Dr. Armendariz received his
doctorate in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina. Faculty Research Associate at the Univ. of Texas at Arlington where he is a lead scientist for studies
analyzing groundwater quality in the Barnett and
Cline Shale formations. He is also the founder of Inform Environmental, LLC, an environmental consulting company that provides comprehensive groundwater analyses and monitoring services.
TEXAS ENERGY PORTFOLIOWarren Lasher, ERCOT
Warren Lasher is the system plan- ning director for Electric Reliability
WIND John Pappas, Texas A&M
John Pappas is the Associate Director of the Texas A&M Energy
Council of Texas (ERCOT), the agency which
manages the power grid for almost 90 percent of the state. Mr. Lasher’s responsibilities include transmission planning studies, load forecasting,
and resource adequacy analyses. At ERCOT, he
has coordinated long term transmission plans and studies, along with recent analyses of EPA
regulation impacts on the ERCOT system.
Institute and the Director of the Texas A&M Wind Energy Center. Pappas holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.He is a member of the American Wind Energy Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is the author of 25 referred papers.
and the Oklahoma Dept. of Environmental
Quality in customer assistance and as a permit writer. She holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering and MS in Civil Engineering from the Univ. of
Oklahoma. Martin has served on the State Review of Oil and Gas Environmental Regulations (STRONGER) board and assisted in the review of regulations for Oklahoma, Kentucky, and
Tennessee for several years.