Bio
Bill Herrington was heading to his downtown Houston office in 2016 when he came upon a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
It was personal for Bill. Forty years earlier, he worked as a laborer on pipeline construction crews during the summers of 1979 and 1980. His first pipeline job was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, three months after the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, just south of Harrisburg. He saw the pipeline construction business from the inside out, and it left an indelible respect for pipeliners and the necessity of the industry.
Bill graduated from Louisiana State University and began a 35-year career in corporate banking, focusing on the energy service industry in south Louisiana and Texas. He completed the Harvard Business School general manager program and became a private equity and private credit investor based in Houston, Texas. He also authored the award-winning memoir, Contraflow.
But Bill never forgot his work as a laborer on a pipeline. He was confused by the depiction of the industry as evil. The protest led Bill to reexamine his understanding of the industry and America.
His new book, The Green Real Deal, explains the role of oil and gas pipelines in WWII, examines energy options today, and proposes a balanced five-point energy plan moving forward.