Nothing new really going on at my home university. I look forward to the “Social Science Task Force” being created, chaired by the Chair of the Department of Cherokee Poetry Studies that will re-evaluate the proper place of economics on campus. To be fair, our university DID just host a talk on fracking that included one of the authors of a famous paper claiming that methane leaks from fracked wells make then as “dirty” as burning coal – I’ll leave it to readers to imagine what the scientific consensus actually concluded about that study. However, at that event, it appears that “other points of view” were also offered.
We’re hoping to visit a few frack sites in Pennsylvania in the next month. If they allow me to bring my camera I will report on it sometime in June.
ELSEWHERE in today’s research news:
Thanks for the update, WC!
My neighbor told me she owns some property “up in the mountains” and that somebody had made overtures for drilling rights; she has retained a lawyer to represent her interests, and I sure hope she gets a jackpot, maybe a big one that pays her far more than what our socialist government thinks is “enough.” Her husband died last fall, too early.
When you visit those wells, take pictures with your phone, pretending you are describing the horror to Governor Cuomo.
I really doubt anyone at your school (and most schools) pays attention to this stuff. I think at this point in time they’ve overplayed their hand so much, most people have stopped caring. Similarly at RIT they build their entrepreneurship center and were so proud of the LEED certification. First, I doubt most students know or care. Second, even the ones who make a living leeching off this stuff freely admit that LEED is a scam. And third, the building is better known as “the urinal” for its looks (you have to go inside to understand why), then as a symbol of “sustainability”. I say let them overplay their hand.
So who cares what the apparatchiks do? I bet there’s more readers to your blog than to the UR Green News.