The program includes the following:
-Introduction by Kay Wagner, moderator and chair of the Natural Resource Committee of the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County;
-"Marcellus Hydrofracking: What Does it Mean for Economic Development?" Prof. Susan Christopherson, Department of City and Regionall Planning at Cornell;
-"Drilling for Natural Gas: Assigning Values, Measuring Costs". Prof. John Schwartz, Department of Physics at Ithaca College (retired);
-"Shale Gas Economics from Three Authors: Jannette Barth, Jeffrey Jacquette, and Chip Northrupt". Don Barber, supervisor for the Town of Caroline and co-chair of the Tompkins County Council of Government;
-Q & A
