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lands has not kept pace with state and
fee leases "because new shale plays are
predominantly on private lands."
"Yet, on public lands in the West,
federal red tape is preventing the exploration and innovation that jump-started
other now-prolific shale plays," she responds.

Structural Changes
Other important elements of Wigley's
ongoing plan for the Alliance call for
finding new ways to engage the association's board, restructuring the staff, improving transparency, and reviving the
coalition of resource industries that share
common interests.
Regarding the latter, Wigley notes
that regular meetings among mining,
ranching, agriculture, timber, outdoors,
and the oil and gas industries faded in
the early part of the last decade. "I guess
everyone thought President Bush would
solve all our problems," he muses.
"Our goal is to revamp that coalition
so that we meet regularly with these industries," Wigley says. "I am not saying
we are going to agree on everything, but
we need to get back to sharing common
concerns."
This year, the Alliance also scrapped
its annual Washington call-up event in
favor of four smaller, focused visits spread
over the year. That change was a priority
for Ekstrom during his term as chairman.
"As a government affairs professional, I
believe our visits to the Capitol should
be more tactical and focused on the business of the organization," Ekstrom states.
"It is important for everyone on the
Board of Directors and Board of Advisers
to visit Washington at least once a year,"
he says. "Scheduling conflicts in the
spring are unavoidable, but they can find
another date to attend."
Brian Fakharzadeh joined the Alliance
in September last year as vice president
of development and operations. Wigley
says his 15 years in management, both in
an oil and gas services company and as
an entrepreneur owning his own businesses, give him the insights and the
ability to keep the Alliance moving forward.
The Alliance has added two more staff
members this year to bolster its expertise,
Wigley continues. Tripp Parks is a policy
analyst and former congressional aide
hired to strengthen the association's public
lands and wildlife advocacy. Ryan Streams
is the Alliance's regulatory affairs analyst
who will focus on air and water quality
issues.
Another important organizational
change at the Alliance involves outsourcing the accounting functions and con-

ducting annual financial audits. "We have
streamlined our practices, implemented
internal controls, and improved transparency, comments Wigley. "We must
run the organization like a business."

Annual Meeting
As he developed the agenda for this
year's convention, Fakharzadeh says he
wanted members to know the organization
was listening to their concerns and needed
their involvement. "We changed the
format for this year's meeting to create a
truly interactive process," he reveals. "In
the past, some members expressed concern
their voices were not being heard. There
was even some discussion about going
away from a convention to a board retreat.
"That would have sent the wrong message to the members and those on the
outside," he says. "We decided on a
trimmed-down agenda that gets right to
business."
Registration for the 2015 annual meeting opens at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug.
12, at the Park Hyatt Hotel. Fakharzadeh
says a "family dinner" that is highlighted
by an address by U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, R-Co., begins at 5 p.m.
Other highlights, he points to, include
a panel discussion on the Colorado Governor's Oil & Gas Task Force on Thursday
morning, Aug. 13, followed by a keynote
speech by Alex Epstein, author of The
Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. After lunch
on Thursday, Fakharzadeh adds, Jack
Stark with Continental Resources will
lay out the importance of lifting the U.S.
ban on exporting crude oil.
A significant change in this year's
convention, Fakharzadeh notes, is shortening a day-and-a-half of policy sessions
into a single day, running from 9 a.m.
Thursday, Aug. 13, to 5 p.m., after which
conference participants will be dismissed,
although he adds that the Alliance staff
is making reservations for parties of 610 at various Beaver Creek restaurants
for those who wish to stay over.
An optional golf outing and lunch
tees off at Beaver Creek Golf Club on
Friday, Aug. 14, as the concluding event
of the Alliance's 2015 convention.
❒

Coming In August

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evaluate stage-by-stage frac treatment
effectiveness, automated real-time
processing of passive microseismic
data, refrac candidate well selection,
composite frac plug technology and
new geomechanical modeling techniques.
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