The Oil & Gas Accountability Project and EARTHWORKS

The Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) works with communities to prevent and reduce the impacts caused by oil and gas development. OGAP is a program of EARTHWORKS, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide. Together, OGAP and EARTHWORKS work with communities to prevent and reduce the impacts caused by digging, drilling and mining.

Presenter Bios

Gwen Lachelt
Director, Oil & Gas Accountability Project & NO DIRTY ENERGY CAMPAIGN
EARTHWORKS
P.O. Box 1102
863 1/2 Main Avenue
Durango, Colorado 81302
Ph. 970-259-3353
gwen@ogap.org
http://www.ogap.org
http://www.nodirtyenergy.org/

Gwen Lachelt is the director and co-founder of the Oil & Gas Accountability Project. Gwen has worked as a community organizer for 21 years and has addressed oil and gas issues at the local, state and national level for 20 years. Ms. Lachelt has dedicated her career to reforming oil and gas policies and practices and has led precedent-setting campaigns to protect landowner rights, public health and the environment from oil and gas development. She is the founding Executive Director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, a non-profit organization serving the San Juan Basin of southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico. She is the former director of the Western Colorado Congress, was a Visiting Instructor at Fort Lewis College, and has served on many boards of directors and advisory committees. In 2005 the Ford Foundation selected Gwen as a national finalist for the prestigious "Leadership for a Changing World" award.  Gwen has a B.A. in Political Science from Fort Lewis College in 1985 and has pursued graduate studies in environment and community at Antioch University.

Jennifer Goldman, Public Health & Toxics Campaign Director

Oil & Gas Accountability Project, a Program of EARTHWORKS                   PO Box 7193   Bozeman, MT 59771

Ph. 406 587 4473                                                    jennifergoldman@ogap.org

http://www.ogap.org
http://www.nodirtyenergy.org/

Jennifer Goldman is the Public Health & Toxics Campaign Director for the Oil & Gas Accountability Project.  Jennifer has worked on local, state, federal and tribal oil and gas issues since 2001 when she joined OGAP as a community organizer.  In 2003 and 2004, Jennifer served as OGAP’s New Mexico State Director where she established a state-wide oil and gas network and launched several reform efforts, including permanent protection of the Valle Vidal in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest, a statewide oil and gas pit regulation, and state surface owner’s protection legislation.  In 2005, Jennifer organized the first grassroots summit in North America on public health and toxics issues associated with the exploration and production of oil and gas.  Jennifer currently works for OGAP and EARTHWORKS from their Bozeman, Montana office.  She works with communities across the country and Canada on oil and gas reform efforts that address the environmental, social and public health impacts of dirty energy.  Jennifer holds a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy and is currently working toward a Masters of Science in Health and Human Development.

Subra Company, Inc.

Subra Company is a chemistry lab and environmental consulting firm in New Iberia, Louisiana. Subra Company provides technical, research and evaluation services to citizens and communities in the U.S and abroad who are concerned with their local environment.

Wilma Subra, President
Subra Company
P. O. Box 9813New Iberia, LA 70562

Ph. 337 367 2216
subracom@aol.com
 

Committed to protecting the environment and the health and safety of citizens, Wilma Subra started Subra Company in 1981. Mrs. Subra provides technical assistance to citizens concerned with their environment by combining technical research and evaluation. Through this work, Mrs. Subra addresses a host of environmental and human health issues associated with hazardous waste, solid waste, oil field drilling, production and waste, air pollution and surface water and ground water pollution.  This information is then presented to community members so that strategies may be developed to address their local issues. The community needs that are identified from this local involvement are then translated into policy changes at the State and Federal level through Ms. Subra’s service on multi-stake holder committees.    

 Mrs. Subra has just completed a seven year term as Vice-Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), a five year term on the National Advisory Committee of the U. S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and a six year term on the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) where she served as a member of the Cumulative Risk and Impacts Working Group of the NEJAC Council, and chaired the NEJAC Gulf Coast Hurricanes Work Group.

Mrs. Subra holds degrees in Microbiology/Chemistry from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.   She received the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award from the MacArthur Foundation for helping ordinary citizens understand, cope with and combat environmental issues in their communities and was one of three finalist in the Environmental Category of the 2004 Volvo for Life Award.