July Let's Learn Topic Announced

The Economic and Business Development Committee of the Charleston Area Alliance has implemented a summer series of meetings titled "Let's Listen" which will continue with our regularly scheduled meeting at 8:00 on Friday July 20 at the Alliance offices at 1116 Smith Street. We always adjourn by 9:15 AM.

Our speakers for the July meeting will be Bob McLusky from Jackson Kelly who will give the legal analysis and also representatives from the coal industry who will discuss the industry impact of the recent southern district federal court decisions in the case titled Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (commonly called the "Chambers decision").

The purpose of the "Let's Listen" summer series is to provide information and education to Alliance member businesses and friends on significant issues which have been recently publicized as having the potential to impact our local economy.

Our June meeting was an excellent analysis by Tom Lane from Bowles Rice McDavid Graff and Love and Scott Rotruck from Chesapeake Energy Corporation discussing recent litigation (the Tawney case) related to the oil and gas industry, and we expect our upcoming meeting on July 20 will be an enlightening business analysis concerning the coal industry segment of our local energy economy.