They’re REALLY starting to catch on!
posted on: Oct 07, 2009
They’re REALLY starting to catch on!
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, we’re starting to see some truly positive coverage in the media about why our country needs to turn to clean, domestic, abundant, and affordable natural gas to address our energy, economic, and environmental challenges.
IPAMS is not passively hoping that the media and policymakers will suddenly see the big picture and begin to advocate for policies that call on increased use of natural gas. Instead, we are aggressively taking our message directly to those who need to hear it most.
Over the last month, IPAMS President George Solich has met face-to-face with four editorial boards from newspapers across the West: Salt Lake Tribune, Denver Post, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and Casper Star-Tribune. While we expected to raise some eyebrows over the vast new supplies of natural gas and our recommendations for increasing its use in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the success of these meetings surpassed all of our expectations.
The editorials and columns published as a result of our meetings confirm that our message is relevant, timely, and provides common sense solutions. Never before have we seen the media “get it” like they have on this issue.
See for yourself the impact our meetings are having:
Editorial: Natural gas is key to cleaner energy (Denver Post, 10/01/2009)
Editorial: Natural-gas climate (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 09/23/2009)
Opinion: New Energy, Take Two (by Vincent Carroll, Denver Post, 10/04/2009)
Editorial: Natural gas (Salt Lake Tribune, 10/02/2009)
Wyoming gains in pairing of wind, natural gas (Casper Star-Tribune, 09/24/2009)
Editorial: Energy industry advances, even in down economy (Casper Star-Tribune, 09/24/2009)
To help highlight this growing support for a higher utilization of natural gas, IPAMS has built a new page on our website, entitled “Building The Case.”
