Compact comments, 06/2013

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Compact Comments June
2013
ABOUT US WHAT WE DO MEMBER STATES ISSUES TAKE ACTION NEWS & RESOURCES
EVENTS
In this Issue
Alabama State
Regulator Receives
Top Award
2014 Officers
Elected
2013 Chairman's
Stewardship Call
for Entries
Coming Soon
In Other News
Fracking Pollution
Probe in Wyoming
Cast in Doubt by
EPA (Bloomberg)
What’s in the
fracking
soup? (Nebraska)
What to expect
with
fracking (Illinois)
Alabama State Regulator Receives Top Award
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact
Commission (IOGCC) announces that Dr. Berry
H. “Nick” Tew, Jr., Alabama’s State Geologist
and Supervisor of the State Oil and Gas Board,
as its distinguished 2013 E.W. Marland Award
recipient.
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, this year’s
IOGCC Chairman, along with Chairman of the
Alabama Oil and Gas Board, James Griggs, presented Tew with the award
and a Governor’s Commendation.
"Like Governor Marland, you provide the leadership and vision needed in the
regulation of our state’s resources," Alabama Congressman Jo Bonner stated
in a video message.
Followed by another message from University of Alabama Coach Nick Saban
that surprised Dr. Tew.
Saban remarked that the University of Alabama knows a little about
champions and that Nick was one of them.
We want to congratulate Dr. Nick Tew and thank him for his service as a
state regulator and dedicated participation in the IOGCC.
2014 Officers Elected
At the IOGCC Midyear Issues Summit in Point
Clear, Alabama, two officers were elected to
lead the IOGCC in 2014.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant will take the
helm as the Chairman and Cathy Foerster will
preside as the Vice Chair.
It will be the second time a governor from
Mississippi has taken the role as Chairman of
the IOGCC.
Cathy Foerster is the official representative of
Alaska and the Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas