'Undue Influence' Author to Address GasMart 2004 audience - hosted by Natural Gas Intelligence.Business & Energy Editors GasMart 2004 DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004 An elite group of foundations is creating hysteria in the general public over environmental issues and undermining development of the energy infrastructure, Ron Arnold Ron Arnold (born August 8, 1937) has been the Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise since 1984. He is widely considered the "Father of the Wise Use Movement",[1][2] , author of the book, "Undue Influence," will tell the GasMart 2004 audience gathering in Denver May 17-19. The "massively orchestrated opposition" by the large foundations to all kinds of development, including oil and gas, and the blocking of energy transportation facilities adds up to higher energy prices, which make U.S. products uncompetitive in the world market, Arnold maintains. Ultimately, there could be a breakdown in the energy infrastructure supporting the nation. The book he currently is working on is "Freezing in the Dark." Arnold, who is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise or CDFE is a wise use think thank which describes itself as "an educational foundation for individual liberty, free markets, property rights and limited government". CDFE was founded in 1974 by Alan Gottlieb. , Bellevue, WA, maintains that most of the funding for anti-development efforts is coming not from a broad public base, but from key people running huge foundations with "prescriptive grants." While giving the oil and gas industry credit for the technology and grit expended in discovering, producing and delivering energy, the industry -- by not going all-out to combat the groups attacking their business -- "are committing suicide and they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. it. They are the bedrock foundations of the industrial society, the support system for society. If they don't protect themselves they are doing everyone a disservice." "Industry is not doing anything but defense, and in football, the defensive team doesn't score any touchdowns. Anything you do that isn't aimed at putting these groups out of business is a total waste of time. You cannot fight this huge amount of money if you don't frontally attack." He will advise GasMart attendees on methods of counteracting the foundations' strategies. Arnold is just one of a number of speakers who will be addressing the 18th annual gathering of the natural gas industry at the Marriott Denver City Center, hosted by Natural Gas Intelligence. Other highlights of GasMart 2004 - the 18th annual event: -- Keith Rattie, chairman of Questar, will lead off a discussion on promising supplies from the Rocky Mountain area -- Representatives of Kinder Morgan Kinder Morgan Inc. NYSE: KMI is an American energy company. It is also, through a subsidiary, the general partner of and owner of many of the interests in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a publicly traded pipeline and terminal limited partnership. , TransColorado Gas Transmission, Colorado Interstate Gas Colorado Interstate Gas is a major producer of natural gas, connected to major supply basins in the Rocky Mountains and production areas in the Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma, western Kansas, and Wyoming. Originally an independent company, CIG is now a subsidiary of El Paso Corp. and Gas Transmission Northwest will discuss where and how the Rockies gas is going to market -- FERC FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC FEMA Emergency Response Capability Commissioner Joseph T. Kelliher will advise on how he sees the Commission dealing with regulatory issues impacting natural gas, such as approval of LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas. terminal operations The reception, processing, and staging of passengers; thereceipt, transit, storage, and marshalling of cargo; the loadingand unloading of modes of transport conveyances; and themanifesting and forwarding of cargo and passengers todestination. See also operation; terminal. , pipeline construction, pipeline gas specifications, and gas pricing -- John Olson
Parkman will entertain with "Wall Street and the Gas Cycle" -- Representatives of ChevronTexaco and Shell, will give an update on the world LNG market and their separate plans to build LNG receiving terminals offshore in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . An analyst from ESAI ESAI Energy Security Analysis, Inc. (Boston, MA) ESAI Enhanced Situation Awareness Insertion will be explaining how much the LNG will cost -- Advice on "Buying and Selling at Defensible Prices," will come from ConocoPhillips, NiSource, the American Gas Association and Procter & Gamble, and -- There will be a panel on hedging led by Alan H. Levine of Morgan Stanley. About Natural Gas Intelligence GasMart is hosted annually by Natural Gas Intelligence, the flagship publication of Intelligence Press, Inc., which has been reporting news and prices in the competitive energy market for more than 20 years. Check out http://gasmart.com for more conference information or visit http://intelligencepress.com for natural gas news. Sponsorships and showcase opportunities are still available. |
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