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Agenda — McCormick SRI on Shale Oil and Gas Development

The Society of Environmental Journalists Presents:

The McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute on Shale Oil and Gas Development

Pittsburgh, June 22-24, 2014  

Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation

 

Conference Hotel:

Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center – 100 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh; (412) 682-6200

 

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What Smokey Bear Might Have Learned in Indian Country

"On Memorial Day weekend in 2011, an unattended campfire in Bear Wallow Wilderness sparked a small brush fire that quickly turned into a holocaust, burning through 538,000 acres and destroying 32 homes in the process. It cost taxpayers more than $79 million to suppress. The Wallow fire was the largest fire in Arizona history, with almost 6,000 people evacuated during the weeks it burned. The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, just to the west of where the fire started, was hardly touched."

Source: ClimateWire, 05/20/2014

"Court Declines to Review Deal for Gulf Spill"

"A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a major decision in the long-running battle over the 2010 gulf oil spill, leaving in place an earlier ruling that forces the British oil company BP to pay some businesses for economic damages without the businesses having to prove the losses were directly caused by the spill."

Source: NY Times, 05/20/2014

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