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George T. Frampton, Jr. Elected to the Board of Directors
March 14, 2007
Washington, DC – Oceana Energy Company today announced that George T. Frampton, Jr., the former Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Frampton was unanimously elected at Oceana’s shareholder meeting today.
“George brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Oceana from his extensive career in the energy and environmental policy arena,” said William A. Nitze, Oceana’s Chairman. “He is going to be an excellent director, and we are excited and honored that he believes in Oceana’s vision for the future of tidal energy development.”
“Bill Nitze and his team have made great progress in positioning Oceana to become a world leader in the development of the tidal energy industry,” said Mr. Frampton. “I am especially looking forward to working through the challenges that lie ahead in bringing this clean, inexhaustible tidal power resource into the commercial mainstream.”
Mr. Frampton is a partner at the New York law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. From 1998-2001, he served as Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. As such, he was the principal advisor on environmental policy matters to President Clinton, and he directed the White House environmental policy group of about two dozen professionals.
From 1997-98, Mr. Frampton served as Corporate Advisor to the Earth Satellite Corporation in Bethesda, MD, and represented Vice President Al Gore as his personal attorney in connection with the Justice Department's preliminary investigation into possible fundraising violations. From 1993-97, he was Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. In this position, he was responsible for supervising the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. From 1986-1993, he was President of The Wilderness Society, a non-profit advocacy and research group focused on issues relating to the management and use of federal lands and natural resources.
From 1976-1985, Mr. Frampton was affiliated with the Washington, DC litigation firm of Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner where he specialized in major litigation and various special projects and investigations, including serving as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Special Inquiry Group into the Three Mile Island Accident. Mr. Frampton was also an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973-75.
From 1971-72, Mr. Frampton served as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He is a graduate of Yale College, the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Econ.) and Harvard Law School, where he served as the Treasurer (Managing Editor) of the Harvard Law Review. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Duke Law School and a professor of International Environmental Law and Policy at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
Oceana Energy Company is a renewable energy technology and site development firm with corporate headquarters in Washington, DC. Its mission is to develop, permit, install and operate sustainable tidal power generation facilities that benefit the public and the environment.
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