PA Environment Digest

The Bucknell Institute for Public Policy will host a symposium on April 16-17 on Marcellus Shale development from an environmental and scientific point of view.

The symposium will begin with the showing of the documentary "Haynesville" at 3:00 p.m. April 16 at the Campus Theatre on Market Street in Lewisburg. Also on Friday, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Acting Secretary John Quigley will give a keynote address in the Trout Auditorium of the Vaughan Literature Building

On April 17, the keynote address will be given by Department of Environmental Protectoin Secretary John Hanger. There will also be three panel discussions that day.

The first, "Setting the Stage: The Marcellus Shale - Geology, Energy, and Development," will feature Bucknell geology senior Molly Pritz, who has researched and presented on the formation; Bucknell alumna Kathryn Z. Klaber, Class of '88 and president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition; and Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Bradford), who represents District 23, which includes Union County.

A second panel discussion will focus on the environmental impacts of the projects. Speakers will include John Dawes, executive director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds; Kirby, the professor of geology at Bucknell; and Jim Richenderfer, acting chief of the Water Resources Management Division at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.

After Secretary Hanger's address in the afternoon, a third panel will focus on economic development and the potential community impact of the project. Speakers will include Charles Abdalla, a professor of agricultural and environmental economics at Pennsylvania State University; Will Delavan, an assistant professor of economics at Lebanon Valley College; Teri Ooms, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development in Wilkes-Barre; and Simona Perry a postdoctoral scholar in GIS and community studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle.

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