The Gas Company Names Pamela Moore Environmental Health and Safety Director
Monday, April 11, 2011
HONOLULU — The Gas Company (TGC), Hawaii’s clean gas energy provider, today named Pamela Moore its Environmental Health and Safety Director. Moore is implementing procedures and changes necessary to keep TGC’s 300 workers safe and healthy and its work sites and processes environmentally compliant as it aims to get half of its gas from green, renewable sources by 2015.
Moore provides technical and administrative direction on all safety, health and environmental policies and programs, and oversees the implementation of The Gas Company’s safety initiatives throughout the state. The Gas Company serves more than 68,000 utility and non-utility gas customers statewide.
“Pam is playing an important role to ensure the safety and reliability of our efforts to develop new ways to use clean, efficient gas energy,” said Jeffrey M. Kissel, president and CEO of The Gas Company. “Her professional qualifications and experience reaffirm The Gas Company’s commitment to a safe and healthy work environment.”
Moore has 26 years of experience in occupational and environmental health and safety. Before joining The Gas Company, she served as the regional safety and health manager at Burns and McDonnell, an engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting firm. She earned a master of science degree in safety studies from West Virginia University and a bachelor of science in health administration from Fairmont State University.
The Gas Company has been in business since 1904. It provides clean, reliable and energy-efficient gas to residential, business and government customers throughout the state of Hawaii — Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai. The Company owns and operates the only SNG (synthetic natural gas) manufacturing plant of its kind in the United States. The plant uses a catalytic process to convert the byproducts of petroleum refining into methane (chemically identical to natural gas) and hydrogen for distribution to its customers in metropolitan Honolulu. TGC supplies SNG and LPG (liquid propane gas) through a 1,100-mile pipeline network, and distributes non-utility LPG statewide. TGC is developing technology to further reduce its carbon footprint by incorporating domestically produced, renewable alternatives to petroleum for gas supply in Hawaii.
The Gas Company LLC (www.hawaiigas.com) is a Hawaii-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company (NYSE: MIC — www.macquarie.com/mic). MIC owns, operates, and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses that provide basic services to customers across the United States.
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