High oil and natural gas prices over the last decade, combined with new technology have ignited a fossil fuel boom across the West. Drilling for oil and natural gas is a high-impact economic activity. Today’s unconventional oil development and its effects differ in important ways from oil booms of the past.

This webinar charts the new “unconventional” fossil fuel boom, tracking production, employment, and fiscal trends in an effort to better understand the pressures boomtowns face and to identify best practices for benefiting from these new unconventional fossil fuel plays. This session is sponsored by the APA Western Central Chapter.

The presenter will be Mark Haggerty of Headwater Economics, an independent nonprofit research group whose mission is to improve community development and land management decision making in the West.

Instructors:

Mark Haggerty

Joanne Garnett FAICP

(225 Ratings)