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Overview
posted: June 20, 2007
On November 30th, the first America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum brought together officials and thought leaders from Gulf Coast energy-producing states to inaugurate a “New Sustainability for the Future of the Gulf Coast.” National, regional, and local officials, in concert with energy and conservation representatives, sought common ground to lay the foundation for the “America’s Energy Coast Accord for a Sustainable Gulf Coast”, intended to unite each sector’s mutual interest in sustaining the coast's economic, cultural, and environmental resources.
The program for the first forum, moderated by former U.S. Senator John B. Breaux, featured noted leaders including: Senator Mary Landrieu; H. Dale Hall, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Mark Hurley, President of Shell Pipeline Company; Gerald E. Galloway, Professor, Glenn L. Martin Institute, University of Maryland; Sean O'Keefe, Chancellor of LSU; and Randall Luthi, Director of the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service; among many others.
To download a PDF of the program from the November 30, 2007 Forum, click here. To view photos from the Forum, click here for a slide show.
The first America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum was convened by the America’s WETLAND Foundation in association with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, the Department of Natural Resources, and Louisiana State University and was sponsored by Chevron and Shell.
The result of the Forum will be an Accord for a Sustainable Gulf Coast that will reflect a regional consensus on priorities for cooperation, policy, and action in the face of global climate change.
Task Forces are currently working on the America’s Energy Coast Accord for a Sustainable Gulf Coast and are drawing on collaboration by civic, industrial, and NGO leaders. The final Accord will be presented at a second America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum, to be held in at the Woodlands, TX on July 24, 2008. This Forum is sponsored by Shell.
If you would like to help draft the Accord for a Sustainable Gulf Coast, or would like to register to attend the America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum II, on July 24, 2008 in Woodlands, TX, please click here to email the Foundation at or call 866 4WETLAND for more information.
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