My Presentation on urban gas drilling from July, 2008

For those of you who haven't seen one of my presentations, here's one that I just now discovered on YouTube. It was given in July of 2008 to a neighborhood association in Meadowbrook. You won't get to see my Powerpoint slides here, just my speech.

The Assistant City Attorney, Sarah Fullenwider, and another City Staffer, a public relations person were in the audience. The staffer came up to me after the meeting, gave me her card, and asked me to send her a copy of my Powerpoints. Also, at this meeting I caught a Chesapeake employee tinkering with my laptop in front of the entire audience. She had inserted a memory stick in my USB port as was busily trying to download my presentation. I took the memory stick out of the port and asked her what she thought she was doing. She said that someone had told her she could use it for a minute. Yeah, right!

Why didn't the Mayor and City Council ever ask me to give them my presentation? I told them I'd be happy to give them a private viewing. Chuck Silcox came to several of my public presentations, but the Mayor and the rest of the Council showed absolutely no interest.

In November, 2008, I delivered a version of the presentation as an invited paper at the Pipeline Safety Trust annual conference in New Orleans. They were interested enough that they paid all my expenses, and my presentation was webcast live and now is available for viewing at http://www.pstrust.org