CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE SHALE DEVELOPMENT INC

What they do

BEGINNING IN 2013, WE ADMINISTERED A THIRD-PARTY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM for SHALE OPERATORS WHO EXHIBITED LEADERSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY WHEN SHALE GAS RESOURCES ARE DEVELOPED. SHALE OPERATORS WITH OPERATIONS IN THE APPALACHIAN BASIN COULD APPLY for THIRD-PARTY CERTIFICATION for MEETING or EXCEEDING OUR ORGANIZATIONS LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. IN 2018, SEEING THAT A NUMBER of OUR STANDARDS HAD BEEN MATCHED BY STATE REGULATORS and SEEING THAT COMPANIES HAD INTERNALIZED OUR STANDARDS AS PRACTICES, CRSD BEGAN to LOOK AT OPPORTUNITIES to APPLY OUR KNOWLEDGE and COMMITMENT to ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE IN OTHER ASPECTS of THE INDUSTRY. to THAT END, WE UNDERTOOK A STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS to BUILD ON OUR SUCCESSES and LOOK for GREATER INFLUENCE. THE OUTCOMES of THAT PROCESS WERE ADDRESSED IN 2019 and WILL BE APPLIED IN 2020 WITH A GREATER FOCUS ON IMPACTS ALL ACROSS THE SHALE GAS VALUE CHAIN IN APPALACHIA.