Ingraffea debates Siegel SUNY Cortland 2/20/2011 (Video now online)

Two Scientists DEBATE
The Pros & Cons of GAS DRILLING

Sunday
February 20, 2011
2 – 4pm
Brown Auditorium
Old Main, SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY

Professor Anthony Ingraffea
(Engineer, FractureExpert, Cornell University)

Dr. Ingraffea opposes the large scale industrialization of the country-
side required for shale gas extraction. He has given many presenta-
tions around the Northeast explaining the harmful impacts the pro-
posed hydraulic fracturing technology will have.

Professor Donald Siegel

(Hydrogeologist, Syracuse University)

Dr. Siegel is a proponent of shale gas extraction and has appeared in many industry television ads stating his support of this technology. He categorizes the views of gas drilling opponents as “irrational fears.”

Also, this event was videotaped. A preliminary video (one camera) is now online here:

Streaming video with seek to time:
http://cmprovideo.net/streaming2/GDAC/2-20-11/2-20-11_DEBATE-streaming.mov

If this doesn't work for you, try these files:

http://cmprovideo.net/GDAC/2-20-11/1-introduction.mov	77.3 MB
http://cmprovideo.net/GDAC/2-20-11/2-Siegel-presentation.mov	96.5 MB
http://cmprovideo.net/GDAC/2-20-11/3-ingraffea-presentation.mov	96.5 MB
http://cmprovideo.net/GDAC/2-20-11/4-QnA.mov	460.7 MB

The final multi-camera edit will be online in a couple of weeks, and DVDs will be available
through Shaleshock, NYRAD, GDACC, and other groups for home screening or on Public Access TV.

Thanks to Cris for getting the video online so quickly, and to the rest of our Audio/Video crew:
Cris McConkey, Bill Huston, Dan, Jim Little, Ben Bristol, David Frey, Mr. Wright.

Keep watching http://www.ShaleShockMedia.org for more info.

Organized by GDACC (Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County) and sponsored by SUNY Cortland: Office of the President, NYPIRG, Philosophy Department, and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and co-sponsored by many area organizations.