We are in the midst of the largest energy boom in our nation’s history, and most people still don’t realize it. It’s extraordinary that the ingenuity and innovation of the natural gas and oil industry have unlocked more than 100 years of U.S. shale gas reserves in just the last five years.
Natural gas fracing has been around since the 1940s and has a long history in the Mountain State. Through the major advances made in the past decade, this process has been combined with horizontal drilling techniques to increase productivity and decrease impact on the landscape.
Growing up, many of us were engrained with the belief that honesty is the best policy. Since we at West Virginia Executive believe this is a vital principle by which to live and work, we have decided to step outside our typical editorial requirements and run a story without bylines in order to bring our readers the real facts that lie within West Virginia’s natural gas industry from the CEOs and presidents themselves.
Coal plays a significant role both in our state and across the country, and despite the challenges we face here at home, West Virginia has the potential to be a global energy leader—if we choose to be.
Skip Lineberg’s name may be familiar around the region for his role as the chief innovation officer for the law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC or as co-founder and former chief creative officer of Maple Creative. Around Charleston, though, he’s also known in the business community for mentoring energetic, innovative, driven women by teaching them how to further develop and then use their skills to propel their careers toward higher levels of success.
Emily Bennington, the co-author of “Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job,” has authored a new book called “Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination.” Launched in early 2013, this new book provides guidance in avoiding corporate pitfalls for career women, including steps to enhance your reputation, first-person narratives of hard-learned lessons by other successful women executives and templates, worksheets and tools for accelerating your personal growth. This is an excerpt from “Who Says It’s a Man’s World.” For more information on Bennington, her work as an author and speaker or where to purchase her books, visit www.emilybennington.com.