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Chesapeake Energy Corporation 2006 Annual Report
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Tallgrass Prairie Preserve photo courtesy of The Nature Conservancy
Supporting Environmental Initiatives
Building strong relationships with private, nonprofit and public partners is another key element of environmentally friendly
operations. A Chesapeake manager has chaired the Bureau of Indian Affairs/Bureau of Land Management Working Group, an
industry/governmental organization whose goal is to improve understanding and communications between the natural gas industry
and government land management and regulatory agencies and to facilitate interagency communications.
Chesapeake is also a founding member of the Low Impact Natural Gas and Oil project in Arkansas, a collaborative effort to develop
a web-based decision-support tool that will enable energy companies and regulatory agencies to share education and integration
systems while promoting better communications.
The company continues its multiple commitments to industry and nonprofit environmental groups such as the Oklahoma Energy
Resources Board, which has remediated more than 6,000 abandoned wellsites across the state at no cost to taxpayers. We are now
Oklahoma’s largest financial contributor to this program and in 2006 our contributions were over $500,000. We also are a supporter
of educational outreach programs conducted by the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, providing cash awards to
educators and districts who record outstanding achievements in environmental education.
In addition, Chesapeake partners with The Nature Conservancy, sharing its mission to preserve the plants, animals and natural
communities that represent the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. This long-term
partnership has had lasting and beautiful results, such as restoration of the 38,000-acre Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in north-central
Oklahoma.
Chesapeake continues to place health, safety and environmental management among our highest priorities, because HSE programs
improve the quality of work life of our employees while adding value for investors.