Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future?

The Future of Energy: Aubrey K. McClendon - Chesapeake Energy 


Join the Environmental Law Review in attending the natural gas segment of "The Future of Energy" series to ask some hard questions about the benefits of natural gas.  Chesapeake Energy is is currently engaged in developing natural gas via a new technique called hydraulic fracturing.  As many of you know, there are serious environmental problems associated with hydraulic fracturing.  Learn more about it by reading this ProPublica article (McClendon is actually quoted in that article advocating for increased transparency).  


If you are interested in joining ELS at this event, please send Rachel an e-mail at revans@jd10.law.harvard.edu.  Students will meet up on the Langdell steps at 4:45 next Wednesday to head over together.

Here is the event info:


February 24, 2010 - 5:00pm
Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future"

New drilling and completion technologies have allowed the U.S. natural gas and oil industry to develop resources in shale reservoirs that were previously considered uneconomic. Shale gas has quickly transformed the industry and provided consumers with reliable sources of supply and the ability to reshape the nation's energy policy. Natural gas is clean, affordable, and abundant. It is the most practical answer to our nation's growing need for clean energy and reduced dependence on foreign oil.


Aubrey K. McClendon has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since co-founding Chesapeake Energy in 1989. Chesapeake Energy is now one of the largest producers of natural gas in the nation and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.  Headquartered in Oklahoma City, their strategy is focused on discovering, acquiring and developing conventional and unconventional natural gas reserves onshore in the U.S., primarily in the "Big 4" natural gas shale plays: the Barnett Shale of north-central Texas, the Haynesville Shale of East Texas and northwestern Louisiana, the Fayetteville Shale of central Arkansas and the Marcellus Shale of the northern Appalachian Basin.