Guests: Massachusetts State Senator James ‘Jamie’ Eldridge, Vice-Chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, and Member of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy; Jim O’Reilly, Director of Public Policy at Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP)
Guest: Dr. Dale Jorgenson, PhD, Samuel W. Morris University Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Professor of Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also a Nobel Prize Nominee for his work on finance and economic policy around the globe. Discussion on how the economics of…
The Path Less Traveled–From Dirty Fossil Fuel to Clean Renewable Energy–Creating ‘State-Based’ Infrastructures that Promote In-State Job Growth While Benefiting the Local Environment Guest: Dr. Anthony. R. Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E. is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University
Guest: John Rumpler, Senior Attorney for Environment America Discussion about the shale oil industry, and the methods they use to extract shale oil and gas, who is being harmed, and what is happening to our environment. If you think it can’t happen in your state–watch this program!
July 18, 2014 – A technique that is called ‘hydraulic-fracturing’ is a method used by the oil and gas industries to extract oil and shale gas that has been buried for centuries beneath the shale rock formations throughout the US. Through the use of a technology called ‘fracking’ these industries…
