[Newleaf] Fwd: Speaking engagement/MA to ban fracking

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:41:59 -0500 (EST)
    From: Sherridl2004 <sherridl2004 at aol.com>
Subject: Fwd: Speaking engagement/MA to ban fracking
      To: reneandsusan at comcast.net, ks12 at hampshire.edu, ecantarow at gmail.com

Ellen Cantarow and I have been speaking about bringing a well known  
speaker in for a talk on fracking.  I heard from Dr. Ingraffea today -  
he could speak on the evening of Feb. 14 and the morning of Feb. 15.


Dr. Ingraffea is held in very high esteem by anti-fracking activists  
(or fractivists), especially for his study on the environmental  
damages of fracking,  which showed that fracking is worse than any  
other fuel (including coal) for dangerous greenhouse gases.  The two  
links below are just a few of the many articles you will find on Dr.  
Ingraffea (one of which is his Cornell page and the other is an  
article written by Ellen):


http://truth-out.org/news/item/13724-meet-anthony-ingraffea-from-industry-insider-to-implacable-fracking-opponent
http://www.cee.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=ari1


I am in the process of writing professors in the 5 college area about  
sponsoring Dr. Ingraffea.  UMass has an environmental studies dept.  
that I am writing and Rene will contact Michael Klare at Hampshire.


What I need from the colleges include:  can we get 5 college  
consortium funding to pay for his expenses and an honorarium in this  
short of time?  Rene, please ask Klare if you are able to contact him  
and I will ask UMass.  The best possible schedule would be UMass,  
large auditorium on the evening of the 14th and a 2nd speaking  
engagement at Hampshire and possibly other colleges.


Thanks for all of your help - let me know what happens.


Sherri
695-5903



-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony R Ingraffea <ari1 at cornell.edu>
To: sherridl2004 <sherridl2004 at aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:04 pm
Subject: FW: Speaking engagement/MA to ban fracking




Hi Sherri,

Be honored to help.  I will be in Westchester on Feb 13 and in Boston  
on Feb 14.
Any possibility of the night of Feb 14? or morning of the 15th?

best

t

A. R. Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E.
Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering
Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow
Cornell University
www.cfg.cornell.edu
President: Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc.
www.psehealthyenergy.org
607-351-0043
________________________________________
From: Anthony R Ingraffea
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:20 PM
To: Anthony R Ingraffea
Subject: Fwd: Speaking engagement/MA to ban fracking

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From: Sherridl2004 <sherridl2004 at aol.com<mailto:sherridl2004 at aol.com>>
Date: January 16, 2013, 2:21:12 PM EST
To: <ARI1 at cornell.edu<mailto:ARI1 at cornell.edu>>
Cc: <ecantarow at gmail.com<mailto:ecantarow at gmail.com>>
Subject: Speaking engagement/MA to ban fracking

Dear Dr. Ingraffea:

Ellen Cantarow has suggested that you would be the single best person  
to educate
activists, and students and faculty drawn from the five-college consortium in
Western Massachusetts (UMass Amherst, Smith College, Hampshire  
College, Amherst
College and Holyoke Community College) to the environmental dangers of
high-volume hydraulic fracturing.

I am a former Texan, originally from Dallas. My father was an aeronautical
engineer who worked for LTV (Ling Tempco Vought) and my daughter’s  
father was an
oil speculator. I now live in Western Massachusetts and have been studying
high-volume hydraulic fracturing since 2006 (and have been opposed to that
practice for almost that long).

According to a recent study by the US Geological Survey, there could  
be natural
gas in the Hartford shale under the Connecticut River, extending through
Massachusetts, up to Vermont. Massachusetts activists are just now  
beginning to
organize to stave off the possibility of land-grabs, and any  
introduction of the
industry here. A December conference at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, run by an industry-connected group, American Ground Water Trust,
featured speakers from the gas industry as well as self-describedly “neutral”
geologists. (I met Ellen there.) A few of us activists attended to see  
what this
meeting would be like and it bolstered our determination to fight  
fracking in a
state that otherwise seems so improbable a target for the shale-gas industry.
In fact, I was told in confidence afterward by a geologist who spoke  
there that
we needed to ban fracking in MA NOW.

I am working with some Massachusetts state legislators on getting fracking
banned in Massachusetts. Some are receptive. Others say they will support
fracking unless they hear experts who can convince them to oppose the  
industry.
It’s my hope that I could get some of our legislators to come hear you speak.

Could we talk about your spring schedule? I know you are in the  
greatest demand.
We would be immensely honored if you would entertain the idea of  
coming, and of
course, we would provide housing, pay for your transportation, provide your
transportation in Western Massachusetts, and pay an honorarium.

You can reach me via cell 413-695-5903 or by email  
sherridl2004 at aol.com<mailto:sherridl2004 at aol.com>.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Very truly yours,

Sherri Long
48 Southampton Rd
Westhampton, MA 01027

cc:  Ellen Cantarow

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