Special BBC/KUHF Radio Broadcast from Port of Houston Authority: link to podcast Posted on: May 9, 2012

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in partnership with Houston’s KUHF-Radio, broadcast a special edition of its international current affairs program Newshour from the Port of Houston Authority on Friday, May 4, to audiences around the world.

The segment, which included a live blog, can be accessed on www.kuhf.org. A link to the podcast is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/newshour.

Anchor Razia Iqbal hosted the show, alongside KUHF StateImpact Energy & Environment Reporter Dave Fehling. Program guests Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice University, and John Hofmeister, Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy, and former President of Shell Oil Company, discussed how the boom in domestic energy production could influence American policy both at home and abroad. “Can America be energy independent by the year 2020?” was broadcast live from the roof of the Executive Office Building at the Port Authority’s Turning Basin Terminal.  

Col. Leonard Waterworth, Port Authority Executive Director, was featured as part of a pre-taped segment.  Waterworth said, “The Port of Houston is the perfect location for this discussion. It is the largest importer and exporter of petroleum in the U.S. and home to the second largest petrochemical complex in the world.”

Last year, more than 115 million tons of petroleum products moved through the Port of Houston, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. For petroleum and all other commodities, the Port of Houston is the nation’s leading port in exports and Texas is the No. 1 exporting state.

CONTACT:
Bill Hensel, Manager, Corporate Communications
Office: (713) 670-2893 Cell: (832) 452-5776 E-mail: bhensel@poha.com

Lisa Ashley, Director, Corporate Communications
Office: (713) 670-2644   Cell:  (832) 247-8179  Email: lashley@poha.com

About the Port of Houston Authority
The Port of Houston Authority facilitates commerce, navigation and safe waterways promoting sustainable trade and generating economic development for the Houston region, Texas and the nation, while being a model environmental and security steward, and a community-focused and fiscally responsible organization.
For more information, please visit www.portofhouston.com

About the Port of Houston Authority

For nearly 100 years, the Port of Houston Authority has owned/operated the public cargo-handling facilities of the Port of Houston – the nation’s largest port in terms of foreign waterborne tonnage. The port has historically been an economic engine for the Houston region, the state of Texas and the nation. The port contributes to the creation of more than one million statewide and more than 2.1 million nationwide jobs and the generation of more than $178.5 billion of statewide and $499 billion of nationwide economic activity.

For more information, please visit www.portofhouston.com.

The Port of Houston Authority logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=720

CONTACT: Bill Hensel, Manager, Corporate Communications
Office: (713) 670-2893
Cell: (832) 452-5776
E-mail: bhensel@poha.com
       
Lisa Ashley, Director, Corporate Communications
Office: (713) 670-2644
Cell:  (832) 247-8179
Email: lashley@poha.com