W&J set to host next energy summit on Nov. 5
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Washington & Jefferson College will turn up the energy Nov. 5.
W&J will host “An Energy Policy Summit on Shale Gas Development and the Local Economy: Challenges and Opportunities.” The event will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the college’s Rossin Campus Center, 60 S. Lincoln St. It will be largely geared toward municipal officials and employees, but will be open to anyone.
W&J’s Center for Energy Policy and Management and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are presenting the summit, in collaboration with the Local Government Academy.
Registration is $25, which includes lunch, and can be made online before the morning of the event at lgaonline.org/#/purchase (go to “Managing Marcellus: An Energy Policy Summit …” and click the down arrow to the left). Event-day registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the ballroom.
Three sessions are scheduled featuring three speakers each.
The first, running from 10 to 11:15 a.m., will be “Resource Extraction: Short-Term and Long-Term Outlooks.” Economics professors Leslie Dunn and Robert Dunn of W&J and Amanda Weinstein of the University of Akron will kick off the program.
“Understanding and Assessing Fiscal Conditions in Local Governments” will be the topic of the following session from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Former Lycoming County official William Kelly, Environmental Law Institute attorney James McElfish and Gary Wagner, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, will speak.
The summit will close with “Leveraging Shale Gas Development: Economic Growth & Diversification” from 1:15 to 2:25. The speakers will be Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy; Lori Dickes, Clemson University professor; and Abra Nusser, director of community development in Colleyville, Texas.