2015 FREEMAN LECTURE: Shale Gas Development: A Big Environmental Experiment?
Date:
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 18:00 to 20:00
Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') for shale gas/ shale oil has grown rapidly in the past dozen years in the United States and Western Canada.
With emphasis on groundwater issues, this talk examines the nature of the shale gas debate and the claim that shale gas is an environmental experiment. Examination of 'evidence' includes expert panel reports from governments in USA, Canada, Europe and Australia and published 'literature' ranging from propaganda, junk science, unreproducible science, immature science and how science matures.
Reception: 6 p.m. & Lecture: 7 p.m.
Admission: Free
See the full abstract on http://cee.mit.edu/system/files/Freeman-2015-lecture_John-Cherry.pdf
Presented by
John Cherry Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Location: E51 — Wong Auditorium
Contact
E Eric Adams
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