Jess and I have been working on gathering together the pieces of information we have found so far, but we are eager to find more sources and new information. So far, we have contacted the person in charge of IRB- he was actually our professor last semester- and we have planned a meeting with him for sometime this week. We also got in contact with the professor on campus who wrote a book about fracking in this area, and he seemed really excited to talk with us. We scheduled an interview with him for October, so that we had time to gather up all our information before the interview itself. Our advisor on campus is also part of the local Lions Club and he is planning on putting us on the agenda for a meeting once all the IRB paperwork is done. Overall, we have a long list of things to do, but we are slowly making progress.
The timeline/map exercise really helped both of us to gather a lot of useful information, and we are planning on revising them and using both of them on our website. Right now, they are slightly rudimentary, but at least we found some helpful information! I also think this exercise helped us to better plan how we want to layout our Website, since we weren’t quite sure what we wanted to do at first. I hope this timeline gave you as much helpful information as it gave us!!
References:
Schultz, Aarik. Hydraulic Fracturing and Natural Gas Drilling. Nova Science Publishers, 2012, New York, 2-23.
Wow, I didn’t realize that the history of fracking went this far back. It makes me wonder if there any cases/studies on the quality of health impacts that live on the land long term.
That is a really good point- thank you for the idea! With that, I am going to look further into it and hopefully there is published information on that! I guess we will both stay tuned to see if that question gets answered!!
Hey Claire!
It sounds like you guys are off to a great start. The interviews should definitely help get a local perspective on fracking. The timeline helped me better understand what fracking was and how far back it went in history. This was actually a topic of conflict in my local community as well. I remember a lot of people discussing it on community pages and we had a couple of town meetings to decide if we were going to allow fracking in the area. Now that I think of it, I don’t know if they ever reached a resolution to that issue yet. I’ll have to look that up someday soon. Good luck as you continue your research and prepare for your first interview.