Mon 3/22 @ 7:30PM
There are few issues that raise the hackles of environmental activists as much as fracking. Although it’s only part of the entire spectrum of fossil fuel generation, and banning fracking is just a piece of the movement toward clean, renewable energy, it generates outsized emotion.
Certainly, the impacts aren’t good. It leaves toxic waste. It emits warming methane gases. It even causes earthquakes when the waste is injected back into the ground. It hasn’t even been the job creator it was touted to be.
The organization Protect Geauga Parks is opposed to fracking in their region, as you can learn for the webinar “Music LaDue About Fracking.” They’ll be talking about the city of Akron’s proposal to sell mineral rights under Geauga County’s LaDue Reservoir to a drilling company to frack. They’ll explore the history of Akron’s water supply and the impacts fracking has had in the Mahoning Valley and what that could mean for the LaDue reservoir.
The featured speakers are Dr, Shelley Blundell, an assistant professor in journalism and communication at Youngstown State University who works with students on in-depth investigative stories, and recent YSY grad Alyssa Lutker, who worked on stories about environmental impacts on communities when she was a student, including one on fracking in the Mahoning Valley.
The event is free and open to all but advance registration is required. Go here.