Tioga County Agencies Offer Marcellus Shale Breakfast Seminars

Your Business & Marcellus Shale:  Voices of Experience

Marcellus Shale has the potential to fundamentally transform the Southern Tier as interest in the development of Natural Gas grows in New York State.  To help better prepare local businesses Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tioga County partnered with Tioga County Economic Development & Planning and the Tioga County Chamber of Commerce to host a series of educational webinars from PennSate entitled Your Business & Marcellus Shale: Voices of Experience. 

This series is a follow-up to the successful Fall 2009 webinar program, which introduced participants to Marcellus business opportunities.  Over 500 local businesses participated in that series, at 19 local sites within Pennsylvania and New York. 

The Your Business & Marcellus Shale: Voices of Experience consists of four weekly breakfast webinars for small and medium-sized local businesses, and entrepreneurs, and is designed to help them understand and take advantage of the business opportunities arising from Marcellus Shale.  Each session will highlight successful local Pennsylvania businesses who are adapting to the opportunities, as a way of helping other businesses learn how they can explore and take advantage of these opportunities.  Several sessions will include natural gas industry representatives, discussing what they're looking for from local business partners, and how to establish such business relationships. 

The following provides the session topic for each date:

• January 27th:  Local Business Success Stories and Leassons Learned I
• February 3rd:  Working with the Industry: Natural Gas Company Perspectives
• February 10th: Local Business Success Stories and Lessons Learned II
• February 17th:  Partnering: Industry and Local Business Panel

FEE:  $5.00 per session or for those who are interested in the entire series can attend all four at the discounted rate of $15.00.  Coffee and breakfast items will be available. 

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  Pre-register by phone at 607-687-4020 as we expect the session to fill fast.  We encourage all Tioga County businesses to attend.