AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White will deliver a presentation on “The Great Energy Enrichment” at the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association’s (TIPRO) 70th Annual Summer Conference. Ms. White will speak at 8:20 am on Thursday, August 18 at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, TX. She is coauthor of the recently released Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy (Regnery Publishing).
“Climate policy geared towards eliminating fossil fuels threatens a shale revolution that has transformed the energy sector, and benefitted countless people and communities around the world,” White said. “Will mankind continue to enjoy the expanding goods and services derived from the concentrated, abundant, and affordable hydrocarbons — or will government force mankind’s first energy regression?”
“At a time when small American producers are fighting to stay in business, federal agencies are developing unnecessary regulations that threaten U.S. oil and gas operators, American jobs and the entire U.S. economy,” said TIPRO President Ed Longanecker. “These ideologically driven mandates are costly, unnecessary and provide little, if any, environmental benefits. Continued innovation, collaboration and sensible domestic energy policy are critical to economic prosperity, energy independence and enhanced security for our state and country.”
Formed in 1946, TIPRO works to preserve the ability to explore and produce oil and natural gas. The association is one of the oldest and largest oil and natural gas non-profit organizations in the state of Texas.
Kathleen Hartnett White is the Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the second-largest environmental regulatory agency after the EPA. She has also served on five other state or federal Commissions governing natural resources.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin, Texas.