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Thereafter, Baker “launched an independent consultancy – Corporate Consulting, Inc. – specializing in strategic communication planning and implementation for high profile clients,” reads his biography up on the Aspen Institute website. “In addition, he specialized in crisis communication management [and] Baker continues to provide these services for select clients.”<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798197-Gerry-Baker-Aspen-Bio-Corporate-Consulting-Inc.html Gerry Baker Biography]</ref>
At the 1998 IOGCC annual meeting, Baker – while with Corporate Consulting, Inc. – gave a media training seminar.<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798415-Gerry-Baker-1998-IOGCC-Media-Training-Seminar.html IOGCC 1998 Annual Meeting], Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission</ref> Corporate Consulting, Inc. was incorporated in Oklahoma in 1991<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798206-Gerry-Baker-Incorporation-Form.html Oklahoma Department of State Incorporation Form: Corporate Consulting, Inc.]</ref> and got its most recent Certificate of Good Standing in July 2015.<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798208-Gerry-Baker-Cert-of-Good-Standing.html Oklahoma Department of State Certificate of Good Standing: Corporate Consulting, Inc.]</ref/> Baker began working for IOGCC in 2002 while the organization was pushing hard for the [[Halliburton]] Loophole's insertion into first the Energy Policy Act of 2003, then the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In 2011, Baker gave a talk at IOGCC’s annual meeting in on how to deal with the public's fear of [[fracking]].
“When people do not get all of the information, or information is too technical, they begin to fill in the holes with what they can imagine,” he said in one of the early presentation slides. “The perceived risk, even if it isn’t a reality, makes hydraulic fracturing an emotional issue.”<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798411-Gerry-Baker-on-Fracking-and-PR.html#document/p3/a288273 "Reaching Out to a Broad Audience"], Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and FracFocus, October 17, 2011, accessed April 2016</ref>
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