Trumansburg Forum Dec. 8

December 8 (6:30 pm) at the Trumansburg High School
Public Education Forum Exploring Impacts of Gas Drilling with High Volume Hydrofracturing

In a continuing effort to assess presumed consequences of “fracking,” local residents, politicians and environmental groups will stage a free Public Educational Forum entitled, “Impacts of Gas Drilling with High Volume Hydrofracturing” on Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m. at Trumansburg High School (off route 96).

The Forum will feature a faculty addressing diverse aspects of this complex problem:
• Louis Allstadt—Former Executive Vice President at Mobil Oil Corp.
• Don Barber—Caroline Town Supervisor, Chairman of the Tompkins County Council of Governments, local businessman and owner of a dairy farm.
• Julie & Craig Sautner—Dimock, PA, residents who have experienced first-hand water well contamination secondary to the industrialized hydrofracking process.
• Helen Slottje, Esq.—Senior Attorney, Community Environmental Defense Council (CEDC) Ithaca, NY.
• Sandra Steingraber, PhD —A local resident and internationally renowned biologist and prize-winning author whose major interest is the effects of environmental toxins on human health.

The forum will be moderated by Mary June King, a Trumansburg native and community pillar long involved in secondary school education. A Q&A session will follow the panelists’ presentations.