Natural

Gas Workshop Agenda

Boston University, Friday Sept. 23, 2011
Trustees Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02215

Introduction
9:00-9:05 Welcome/Meeting Overview N. Phillips
9:05-9:45 Introductory Remarks (5 min talks) R. Ackley, E. Crosson,
L. Ehrlich, R. Howarth,
J. Schlictmann
Industry and Technology
9:45-10:05 Lost/Unaccounted Gas: What, How, Why M. McDonald
10:05-10:35 Panel Discussion (moderator M. McDonald)
E. Crosson, R. Ackley, R. Howarth

Break
10:35-10:50 Coffee/Tea

Environment and Ecology
11:00-11:20 Environmental Dimensions of Natural Gas Extraction
R. Jackson

Economics, Law and Policy
11:20-11:40 Gas Leaks: Law and Policy Solutions S. Cleveland
11:40-12:10 Panel Discussion (moderator R. Kaufmann)
J. Schlictmann, L. Ehrlich,
M. McDonald

Open Discussion and Conclusion
12:10-12:20 How to Move Forward: Open Discussion/Q&A
(moderator N. Phillips)
12:20-13:00 Networking

Post-Workshop
13:00-14:00 Urban gas leaks mobile demonstration contact N. Phillips
Light snack provided










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PANELISTS:

Shanna Cleveland is a Staff Attorney working to advance climate protection through
promoting effective legislation, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and initiatives
aimed at reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Shanna earned her B.A. from Harvard University
with honors and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she
served as an Executive Editor for the Virginia Law Review. She worked as a litigation
attorney before receiving her LL.M. in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School
with honors. She is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State
of Hawaii, and the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Eric Crosson, Chief Technical Officer, Picarro, Inc.
Prior to joining Picarro in 1999, Eric held research positions at Stanford University,
including Senior Research Associate at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL) where
he directed research in the areas of medical applications, accelerator science, solid-
state/surface science, molecular materials/chemistry, biophysics and free electron
laser science. At Stanford, he developed a number of key cavity ring-down spectroscopy
techniques. Eric has been a Project Manager at the Triangle Universities Nuclear
Laboratory at Duke University where he helped lead the design and construction of an
atomic beam polarized ion source. Eric received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the
Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Lori Ehrlich State Representative
Representative Lori Ehrlich is a third-term representative from the 8th Essex district,
representing the towns of Marblehead and Swampscott and a portion of the city of Lynn. A
1985 graduate of Lehigh University, with a B.S. in Accounting, Lori had a successful career
as a Certified Public Accountant for over twenty-five years, first in a large Boston firm and
then in her own firm in Salem. She also holds a Masters degree in Public Administration
from Harvards Kennedy School of Government with a focus on energy policy.

Lori is the co-founder of two influential public health advocacy non-profits; HealthLink and
Wenham Lake Watershed Association. Before running for office, she led the charge for the
successful cleanup of coal waste from the drinking water for 80,000 residents in Salem,
Beverly and parts of Wenham, Massachusetts. This work, and her fifteen-year effort to
clean up a grandfathered coal burning plant in Salem, MA recently culminated in the
announcement by Dominion of Virginia that the plant is going to close in 2014.

In 2008, she was elected to the legislature when the seat in her district was open for the
first time in seventeen years. She now serves as Vice Chairwoman of the Joint Committee
on Labor and Workforce Development and is a member of the influential Joint Committees
on Financial Services, Small Business and Community Development, the House Committee
on Bonding, Capital Expenditures, and State Assets. She was recently elected to serve on
the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators.


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Robert W. Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology

& Environmental Biology, Cornell University
Bob chairs the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, directs the Agriculture, Energy & the
Environment Program (AEEP, formerly AEP) at Cornell University, and represents the State
of New York on the scienceand technical advisory committee of the Chesapeake Bay
Program. He isthe Founding Editor of the journal "Biogeochemistry" (Editor-in-Chief
from 1983 to 2004). He has worked extensively on environmental issues related to human-
induced changes in the sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycles, the impacts of
global climate change, and interactionof energy systems and the environment.


Robert B. Jackson is the Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change at the
Nicholas School of the Environment and a professor in the Biology Department.
His research examines how people affect the earth, including studies of the global carbon
and water cycles, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, energy use, and global change. He
was a Department of Energy Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow for Global Change at
Stanford University and an assistant professor at the University of Texas before joining the
Duke faculty in 1999. He is currently Director of Duke's Center on Global Change and
Duke's Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. In his quest for solutions to global
warming,he also directs the Department of Energy-funded National Institute for Climate
Change Research for the southeastern U.S. and co-directed the Climate Change Policy
Partnership, working with energy and utility corporations to find practical strategies to
combat climate change. Jackson has received numerous awards, including the Murray F.
Buell Award from the Ecological Society of America, a 1999 Presidential Early Career
Award in Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation (one of 19
scientists honored at the White House by President Clinton), a Fellow in the American
Geophysical Union, and inclusion inthe top 0.5% of most cited scientific researchers

Mark McDonald
President, New England Gas Workers Association (NEGWA) NatGas Consulting.
Background:
Over 20 years experience with a local gas utility here in Massachusetts.
President of NEGWA since 2005.
Experience in the regulatory process.
Experienced lobbyist at the Massachusetts legislature.
Expert witness in civil cases involving natural gas explosions.
Has testified many times over the past 10 years in different forums both locally and
nationally on behalf of natural gas safety.

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Jan R. Schlichtmann is one of the countrys most notable plaintiffs attorneys. Mr.
Schlichtmann specializes in the area of complex civillitigation including consumer,
environmental, product, toxic, and mass tort litigation. In 1978, Mr. Schlichtmann began
private practice in Massachusetts as a trial lawyer earning recognition for obtaining some
of that states highest verdicts and settlements in civil torts. In 1986, Mr. Schlichtmann
received national recognition for his representation of eight Woburn, Massachusetts
families against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods for the contamination of the Woburn City
watersupply. The groundbreaking nature of the Woburn case and Mr. Schlichtmanns work
in it has been the subject of a number of national and international television and radio
shows, press reports, and magazine stories including 60 Minutes and Nova, as well as
articles in legal and scientific journals and books. Mr. Schlichtmanns career and
involvement in the Woburn case was chronicled in the national bestseller, A Civil Action
that became a major motion picture starring John Travolta as Mr. Schlichtmann.
Mr. Schlichtmann has served on the faculty of the New England School of Law and Suffolk
Law Schools continuing legal education program, and has been on the faculty of the
National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. He has lectured at many of the nations law
schools and colleges and spoken before numerous national and regional professional and
civic groups. Mr. Schlichtmann has consulted with and testified before several
governmental agencies and legislative committees on issues of toxic waste liability and the
civil justice system. In 1990, Mr. Schlichtmann, as a member of a special legislatively
mandated committee, helped author a complete revision of the Massachusetts Hazardous
Waste Cleanup Statute which was enacted into law July of 1992. Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory has accorded Mr. Schlichtmann its highest ratings for both legal ability (A
preeminent) and general recommendation of the bar and judiciary (V very high). Mr.
Schlichtmann has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America.




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Sustainable Neighborhood Lab
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and Improving the Quality of Urban Life in the 21st century ry


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