Dr. Terry Engelder and a professor from SUNY Fredonia, Gary Lash, were on the fore-front of the Marcellus gas “play,” an industry term used to describe a shale formation. Their early 2008 projections of up to 516 trillion cubic feet in the Marcellus, with 50 trillion of it being recoverable at that time, encouraged a modern “gas rush” in areas of Pennsyl-vania, Ohio and West Virginia. Engelder's web site bio states: “He is currently a professor of geosciences at Penn State and has previously served on the staffs of the US Geological Survey, Texaco, and Columbia University.” Survey, Texaco, and Columbia University.” He holds degrees from Penn State (B.S. 1968) Yale (M.S. ’72) and Texas A&M (Ph.D. ’73). In 2011, following Engelder’s projections on the Marcellus Shale, Foreign Policy listed him as one of the top 100 global thinkers.

Dr. Anthony Ingraffea was also on the forefront; his field is how best to fracture rock for-mations, including dark shales like the Marcellus. Ingraffea eventually moved from being a developer of hydraulic fracturing and has since been researching the impacts of this unconventional drilling on communities and on water, air and climate change. He is the unconventional drilling on communities and on water, air and climate change. He is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering and a Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell and the president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc., a group that is contesting the safety of current fracking technologies. A prominent mem-ber of the Cornell Fracture Group he researches materials stress including metals used in aircraft. He holds degrees from Notre Dame (B.S. 1969), Polytechnic (M.S. ’71) and Colo-rado U (Ph.D. ’77). In 2011 Time magazine named him one of its “People Who Mattered.”

Jack OssontJack Ossont, long-time resident of Starkey, will moderate.

Debate RulesOpening presentations will be up to 30 minutes each with PowerPoint set-ups available. Pre-debate flips of a coin will determine who will go first or last in the opening and closing presentations. Questions for the debate will be submitted to the moderator on 3"x5" cards passed out at the door. He will combine duplicate questions and alternate between questions that appear “pro or con oriented.” A timekeeper will ensure the participants are aware of time limits throughout the debate.participants are aware of time limits throughout the debate.After the opening presentations, questions will be asked of each participant with a maximum 2-minute response from each. Whoever went last in the opening statements will be the first to answer the first question. Thereafter responses to questions will alternate between the participants. Following each 2-minute response to questions, the debaters will be given a 4-minute period of 2 minutes each to directly react to each other on the topic of the previous question. Since each question sequence will take around 8 minutes there should be time for about 10 to 12 questions during the evening, assuming minutes there should be time for about 10 to 12 questions during the evening, assuming an end time of around 9:45pm. A 5 minute finishing statement from each debater will conclude the evening.

&Dr. Tony Ingraffea of Cornell UniversityDr. Terry Engelder of Penn State

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