Special Interview with Stephen Heins on Hurricane Harvey’s Impact

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Special Interview with Stephen Heins on Hurricane Harvey's Impact

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Interview: Professor Stephen Heins, owner, Word Merchant

Heins discusses some of the big picture impacts Hurricane Harvey in regards to the oil and gas industry.  He also opines about the group who is trying to link Hurricane Harvey to energy extraction in the United States.

He also opines about the group who is trying to link Hurricane Harvey to energy extraction in the United States.  This issue covers everything from fracking to climate change to geopolitics.

Heins circles back to the economy and pontificates about what will happen to the specialized workers in the industry as clean up and friends and families’ homes are inundated with water and debris.

About Stephen Heins and The Word Merchant

For the last 5 years, starting in 2011, Stephen Heins has been an analyst and consultant for a Wall Street firm. Also, he has been a practical environmentalist, who advocates good energy policy, economic development, and sound environmentalism. From 2001-2009, Heins was Vice President of Corporate Communication for Orion Energy Systems, a publicly-traded leader in innovating energy and lighting systems based in Plymouth, Wis.

Currently, Heins promotes economic development, energy efficiency, emission reductions and broadband deployment at local, state and national levels. He has published more than 90 articles and op-ed pieces on these issues. Over the last 16 years, Heins has published op-ed pieces on energy management, Broadband, the utility industry and environmental issues for leading newspapers, energy and trade magazines including Forbes, Energy Central, Spark Fortnightly, Marcellus Drilling News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, Milwaukee Business Journal, Wisconsin Corporate Report, Marketplace Magazine, the San Diego Union Tribune, Engineering Times, Energy and Power Management, Energy Pulse and Electricity Today.

For those interested in donating or learning how to help:

The Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) has been working with member companies and other oil and gas associations looking for ways to help. TXOGA recommends considering one of the following organizations for those wishing to help with the relief effort:

1. • Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation
   • Salvation Army: http://disaster.salvationarmyusa.org/give/
   • Greater Houston Community Foundation Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund: https://ghcf.org/hurricane-relief/
   • Houston Food Bank: http://www.houstonfoodbank.org/donate/donate-money/
   • Austin Disaster Relief Network: https://adrn.org/disaster-relief/hurricaneharvey/