On July 1st, Jane Van Ryan succumbed to a pancreatic cancer that she bravely fought. I had worked closely with Jane over the last several years when writing about energy and shale issues. She always had a willing ear to listen and excellent feedback informed by her vast experience. Along the way, I gained a great friend in Jane. She loved what we did on GHS and GMS. Please keep her family; especially her husband, daughter and grandchildren in your prayers. RIP Jane. 

Here are a couple articles about her.

Jane Van Ryan: Long-time WUSA9 reporter and anchor dies

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/jane-van-ryan-long-time-wu...

From Energy Tomorrow

Remembering Jane Van Ryan 

by Mark Green

As many of our long-time readers know, I am not the original author of this blog but have carried on a conversation Jane Van Ryan started in 2009. Jane, who passed away on Sunday, was part of the original Energy Tomorrow team, whose goal was to help tell the story of the people of America’s natural gas and oil industry.

A former television reporter, Jane knew how to tell a story and tell it well. Here she is, regaling API colleagues Jocelyn Kelly and Marty Durbin with one of those stories a few years back.

On the ET Blog there was no shortage of topics to discuss – from the Keystone XL pipeline to hydraulic fracturing and the beginning of the shale revolution, taxes, gasoline prices and energy efficiency. And Jane occasionally leveraged her considerable on-camera talents to deliver key messages:

After hundreds of posts, conference calls with bloggers, videos, media tours to various natural gas and oil facilities and podcasts, Jane retired from API in 2011 after more than 20 years to live her dream of gardening and riding horses in rural Virginia.

She also kept her hand in communications work, providing services for the Rockingham County executive offices while contributing energy commentaries to newspapers around the U.S. Jane used many mediums to tell stories – TV journalist, blogger and book author, writing a 2007 biography of Evelyn Hazen, a Tennessee socialite who challenged social conventions in the 1930s.  

Today we say farewell to Jane – and thanks, for her hard work building the foundation for many, many informative and useful conversations about energy.

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