{"id":10183,"date":"2012-09-27T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2012-09-27T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:18:46","slug":"wanna-prevent-protests-protect-the-environment-oil-execs-tell-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/27\/wanna-prevent-protests-protect-the-environment-oil-execs-tell-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Prevent Protests? Protect the Environment, Oil Execs Tell Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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shannonpatrick17 \/ flickr<\/p>\n

The Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska, a state where environmental concern over the proposed pathway forced planners to reroute the pipeline away from ecologically sensitive areas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Executives and experts with oil and natural gas companies met in Oklahoma City earlier this week to talk shop.<\/p>

And while the desire for more pipelines dominated much of the discussion \u2014 Keystone XL is just the beginning, apparently \u2014 the Journal Record<\/em>‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports<\/a> that maintaining the public trust over environmental issues was a big conversation among industry insiders:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be responsive, otherwise we have to run the risk of losing that social license to operate,” William Whitsitt, executive vice president of Devon Energy Corp., said to a crowd of about 50 people at the Renaissance Hotel.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a> and other pipeline projects have run into opposition in Oklahoma and other states. Here, pipelines that don’t cross international boundaries or federally protected lands are largely unregulated until construction has started, or there’s an environmental problem \u2014 like a leak.<\/p>

No state or federal agency has oversight<\/a> of intrastate pipeline projects in Oklahoma \u2014 like Glass Mountain near Enid \u2014 when they’re in the route-planning stage. And routes are often the most important<\/a> and controversial<\/a> parts of pipeline projects.<\/p>

It’s in energy companies’ best interests to be mindful that they’re operating in people’s “backyards,” Continental Resources Vice Chairman of Strategic Growth Initiatives Jeff Hume told members of the Southern States Energy Board, the Journal<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public scrutiny we\u2019re facing today, you need to embrace and welcome it,\u201d Hume said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executives and experts with oil and natural gas companies met in Oklahoma City earlier this week to talk shop.And while the desire for more pipelines dominated much of the discussion \u2014 Keystone XL is just the beginning, apparently \u2014 the Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports that maintaining the public trust over environmental issues was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":10184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,16],"tags":[325,288,453,338],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}