“Understanding the Risks of Oil & Gas Development” – Saturday, March 31st, Hotchkiss High School, 12:30-5:00.

Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Hotchkiss High School Commons Area
12:30-5:00 p.m.

Presenters Include:

• John Fenton – Farmer and rancher near Pavillion, Wyo.,  an area that has been heavily drilled and fracked, and where the EPA suspects drilling and fracking chemicals have contaminated groundwater; Vice-chair Powder River Basin Resource Council.
  
• Calvin Tillman – Former mayor of DISH, Texas, a small community that was transformed into an industrial zone by natural gas development.
• James Northrup – Former planning manager at the Atlantic Richfield Corporation and investor in the acquisition and sale of offshore oil rigs and oil and gas projects for more than 30 years. Co-owned Northrup Energy, which was sold to ARCO Solar and became BP Solar, the largest solar energy company in the world.
• Dr. Theo Colborn – Founder/President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange and expert on health and environmental effects of chemicals used in fracking and released during drilling and oil and gas development.
• Deborah Rogers – Farm owner and artisan cheese producer.  Financial analyst and authority on the economics of unconventional shale gas drilling.  Former advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
• Kyle Tisdel – Staff Attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center and legal counsel for CHC.
• Duke Cox – Former President of the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance and longtime activist.

Invite your neighbors and friends