Dennis Luna To Join WSPA President Catherine Reheis-Boyd
On “Fracking” Panel at Green Tech Conference
Dennis R. Luna, Managing Partner of the Luna & Glushon law firm and Editor in Chief of the California Oil and Gas Report, will join a distinguished panel January 27th at the 7th Annual VerdExchange Conference on the topic, “To Frack or Not To Frack?” The panel will also discuss the impact of newly abundant natural gas on the “cleantech” market.
Others on the panel will include: Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association; Anthony Eggert, Former Commissioner, California Energy Commission; and George Minter, Director, Policy and Environment, Southern California Gas Company. Bill Allen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), will moderate.
The panel is part of the three-day VerdeXchange Conference, January 26-28, 2014, at the LA Hotel Downtown, 333 South Figueroa St. Now in its seventh year, the conference provides a forum to directly address the challenge of building a cleantech economy.
The annual event is attended by clean and greentech entrepreneurs, policymakers, financiers, manufacturing, government policymakers and environmental stewards. At the VerdeXchange VX2014 Conference they will assess what is currently in the market, what is soon to reach the market, and what is still needed in the global, trillion dollar “verde” economy.
Mr. Luna, an oil and gas attorney for more than thirty years, will discuss the impact on the U.S. energy market of newly expanded supplies of natural gas, resulting from hydraulic fracturing of wells in shale rock formations.
Abundant, low-cost natural gas has displaced coal in many of America’s electric power plants, resulting in dramatic reductions in greenhouse gases, noted Mr. Luna.
“Natural gas from shale can be viewed as a practical, immediate step toward a cleaner environment that will enable our economy to remain strong while we continue to develop alternate sources of energy,” he said.
Registration for the 7th Annual, VX2014 Conference January 26-28 at the LA Hotel Downtown is available at www.verdexchange.org. The promo code LUNAVX2014 can be used for a 20% discount.
Dennis Luna is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California School of Petroleum Engineering. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from USC. A licensed Professional Engineer, he is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.