According the July 14 online edition of one of the energy industry’s leading publications, “Tom Mullikin is at the podium, his voice rising and falling with the cadence of a revival tent preacher, extolling the glories of the American energy revolution and raining fire and brimstone on the great apostates, Environment Inc. and the local anti-fracking movement. The South Carolina lawyer knows his audience; a smattering of energy industry types, but mostly small town politicians from Texas and Colorado and other energy-producing states. This is the Energy Summit, put on by the Ports-to-Plains Alliance, a pro-industry group headquartered in Lubbock, the hometown of ’50s rock legend Buddy Holly, and someone in the audience remarks that the presentation feels like church. But if Mullikin is raining hellfire and brimstone down on his audience, it’s with good reason. In 2014, the City of Denton passed a bylaw banning hydraulic fracturing within city limits, and kicked off a jurisdictional debate over who really has the power to oversee the development of oil and gas.”
The article continues, “The Texas situation is a microcosm of the American anti-fracking movement. Mullikin says local environmental activists oppose fracking because it’s a noise or traffic nuisance, but once opposition rears its head, the professional activists aren’t far behind, supplementing and in many cases supplanting locals. ‘Opponents of shale energy have urged a number of municipal governments to expand local regulation,’ says Mullikin via email. ‘The environmental community only has so much bandwidth. But they’re going to try and tee these fights up in every state, county by county.’”
Mullikin –founding-partner of the Camden, S.C.-based Mullikin Law Firm and pres. of the non-profit Global Eco Adventures – has traveled extensively throughout the world, leading several fact-finding expeditions to the world’s most fragile eco-systems. He has long been a champion of clean-energy production and the importance of embracing the Natural Gas Revolution.
Mullikin, also serves as commander of the S.C. State Guard (holding the rank of brigadier general), an organization tasked with responding to natural and man-made disasters throughout S.C. He is presently on track to become the first human to have climbed the world’s seven great summits and logged SCUBA-dives in all five of the world’s oceans.
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