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The Presidential Papers
Arkansas Independent
Producers & Royalty
Owners Association
ANDY MILLER
Senior Director of Government
& Community Relations
Southwestern Energy Co.
Little Rock, Ar.

FROM THE PRESIDENT
I want to start by thanking outgoing
AIPRO President Mark Thomas. He has
been an effective leader and a well-respected face for our industry in Arkansas.
He is a consensus builder and a sincere
man I am proud to call my friend. Fortunately, he is not leaving and will remain
an active member of the AIPRO Board
of Directors.
I also want to recognize and thank
David Reynolds, one of the board's charter
members who, after years of representing
South Arkansas oil producers, is rotating
off the board. David long recognized the
need for a statewide oil and gas organization and was instrumental in AIPRO's
formation. His voice and common-sense
demeanor have been good not only for
those in South Arkansas, but for all involved in our state's oil and natural gas
production.
Let me introduce myself. I work for
Southwestern Energy as senior director
of government and community relations,
and have served as AIPRO secretary and
chairman of AIPRO's Government Affairs
Committee. I joined Southwestern Energy
in October 2005 on the front end of its
Fayetteville Shale development. I am a
proud native Arkansan, living in Little
Rock with my wife, Paige, and six-yearold daughter, Ally. Our older daughter,
Madeline, is a senior at the University of
Mississippi, majoring in geological engineering.
I grew up on a family farm in northcentral Arkansas in the Martinville community, a bit west of Damascus in Faulkner
County. It sits in the middle of what is
now the Fayetteville Shale play. I graduated from the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, with a major in agricultural
business before beginning an 18-year
stint at the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation. I held several positions at Farm

Bureau, and at the time of my departure
was senior director of national governmental affairs. I have spent most of my
professional life in the political and public
policy arena, where I learned the state of
Arkansas and its people very well. This
experience has taught me how important,
effective and necessary it is for an industry
to possess a well-led and well-staffed organization to serve as its voice. AIPRO
has become that voice for Arkansas' oil
and natural gas producers.
Since its inception in 2007, our association has earned the respect of the industry as well as legislators, regulators
and other community leaders. Decision
makers now come to AIPRO first when
they want to approach the industry for
information or to get our opinion. Although
it is still relatively young, AIPRO is well
established and is performing a critical
function for the oil and gas community
by presenting a unified face and putting
us in a better position to affect public
policy.
Education And Outreach
Our organization also is tackling a
task the industry has long needed to address in Arkansas and other producing
states: educating residents about the importance of oil and gas production to our
state. AIPRO has partnered with the
Arkansas Petroleum Council, a division
of the American Petroleum Institute, to
create the Arkansas Energy Rocks! program. This educational outreach effort is
taking our message to civic groups and
is engaging teachers and students; a pair
of audiences with whom we must communicate.
Ours is a very technical industry. Few
outside it understand the science, nor do
they grasp how sophisticated is the process
of exploring, developing and producing

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oil and natural gas. This leaves our industry
vulnerable to misunderstanding, misinformation and distrust among the public.
It is very ironic. Our industry provides
the energy that makes modern society
possible, yet many-whose very platform
is enabled by the harnessing of fossil
fuel energy-decry its production and use.
It is our responsibility, through organizations such as AIPRO, to tell our story
and work to educate the public and the
next generation of voters and workers.
Accomplishing such a daunting task takes
a plan that requires resources and constant
work.
Our industry is behind in this endeavor.
If you doubt that, take a day in the near
future and visit your child's or grandchild's
school. Walk through the hallways and
classrooms, and look at the bulletin boards.
Our adversaries and detractors are there
already and have been for many years.
They understand that the most effective
way to change public policy or the culture
is to mold young minds. In only a few
short years, these people will be our communities' moms and dads, voters and
leaders.
We are starting to catch up in a most
effective way by concentrating on the
science and proving the facts by showing
teachers different sides of the issues. By
being transparent and conveying to teachers what they need to teach students about
fossil fuel extraction and sharing information about the industry's economic
impact in Arkansas, we are changing the
energy conversation from rhetoric to
proven science and real jobs and financial
figures.
It is no secret our industry faces a
looming concern about the lack of trained
workers, especially in the field of engineering. With science, technology, engineering and mathematics education at
the forefront of teaching goals in every
school district, our information and message about education and career planning-including the option to work in an
industry that will provide 20 percent of
all new jobs in the next two decades-
have been a welcome addition to the curriculum. In fact, requests from junior
highs and high schools for presentations
that discuss career opportunities and our
industry's educational requirements have
been increasing consistently. I applaud
our educational and outreach efforts, and
challenge us to sustain and increase them.



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