The Energy Minerals Counties Coalition is composed of four county commissioners, two conservation districts, the State of Wyoming, and a representative of the methane operators. At this time, the counties represented are Carbon (Terry Weickum), Johnson (Delbert Eitel), Sheridan (Mike Nickel) and Sweetwater (Mark Kot). The conservation districts are Campbell County (Brenda Schladweiler) and Lake DeSmet (TBD). The State is represented by the Governor's Office representative. The Methane Operators Group is represented by Dave Searle (Marathon Oil). The coalition employs an executive director, Bj Kristiansen, a registered professional geologist in the state of Wyoming.
The ED is responsible for obtaining information and facilitating its flow to and from the coalition joint powers board and to interested and affected stakeholders at the local level. The goal of the coalition as a whole is effective information transfer for rationale development of hydrocarbon and related resources.