AREC 2022 National Conference Schedule

Rural America – Where Americans Come for Their Energy

Dates:  April 19-21, 2022

Tuesday, April 19. 2022

• 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Welcoming Remarks / AREC Presentation
  • Jeff Labenz-Hough, Executive Director, AREC
• 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Keynote Speaker
  • Anne Bradbury, CEO, American Exploration, and Production council
• 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM “All the Above” Energy Does Work
  • Helen Currie, Chief Economist, ConocoPhillips
  • Ken Becker, Executive Director (retired) Sweetwater Enterprise for Economic Development Municipal Development District, TX
• 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Energy innovation Needs Funding – Here’s A Way
  • Al Anderson, Director, Clean Sustainable Energy Authority, ND
• 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM What’s Challenging Rural Energy Producing Counties Today
  • Leodoro Martinez, President, Eagle Ford Consortium, TX
  • Jonathan Sena, Lea County New Mexico Commissioner, NM
  • Doug McLinko, Bradford County Pennsylvania Commissioner, PA
• 4:50 PM – 5:00 PM Closing Remarks
  • Jeff Labenz-Hough, Executive Director, AREC
• 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Reception – Grand Hyatt

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

• 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM AREC’s Urban Energy Education Initiative
  • Jeff Labenz-Hough, America’s Rural Energy Coalition
• 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM What Ending American Oil/Gas Production Would Really Mean to America
  • Mayor Howard Klug, City of Williston, ND
  • Mayor Patrick Payton, City of Midland, TX
• 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Rural Regional cooperation – Really Making lt work
  • Crockett A/B Room – Joseph Parker, Executive Director, Scenic Rivers Development Alliance, MS
• 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Dark Fiber – A County Taking the Lead to Bring Broadband to its Residents
  • Christopher Brown, Central Bradford Progress Authority, PA
• 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Midstream Energy Update
  • Introduction: Barbara Magor-Deel, VP, American Investment Planners
  • Charles Andersen, INVESCO
• 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Extraction of Fresh Water, Rare Earth, and Essential Minerals from Oil/Gas Produced Water
  • Kevin Thimmesch, Chief Operating Officer, Eureka Resources, PA
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch / Open Discussion

• 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Coal in the 21st Century
  • West Virginia Congresswoman Carol Miller, WV
• 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Critical Minerals – What They Are and Why We Need Them
  • Drew Horn President/CEO, Greentech Minerals Holdings, lnc.
• 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM The Future of Oil/ Gas
  • Geoff Simon, Executive Director, Western Dakota Energy Association, ND
  • Wayne Christian, Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission, TX
• 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM “All the Above Energy” Development – Vital to the Health of Rural America
  • Congressman Henry Cuellar, Texas’s 28th Congressional District
• 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM Environmental, Social, Governance – ls lt Really What They Say lt is?
  • Blu Hulsey, Continental Resources, OK
• 5:00 PM Closing Remarks
  • Jeff Labenz-Hough, Executive Director, AREC

Thursday, April 21, 2022

• 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Isn’t It Time for Nuclear To Be Reconsidered?
  • Art Wharton, Studsvik Scandpower Inc
• 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM American Energy – Cradle to Grave
  • Bart Halsam, Uintah County Commissioner, UT
• 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Oil and water Do Mix: Rural water and the Energy lndustry
  • Tami Madsen, Executive Director, Western Area Water Supply Authority
• 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Energy opportunities from a K-12 Perspective
  • LeeAnne Gandy, Superintendent Lovington ISD, NM
• 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM Rural Development Beyond Jobs – A Comprehensive Wealth Approach
  • Keith Mueller, Director, Rural Policy Research Institute, IA
• 11:50 -12:00 AM Closing Remarks
  • Jeff Labenz-Hough, Executive Director, AREC