Public Education Forum Exploring Impacts of Gas Drilling with High
Volume Hydrofracturing

December 8 (6:30 pm) at the Trumansburg High School

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.

Sponsored by Ulysses Gas Drilling Advisory Board, Coalition to Protect New York,
and Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes