Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania
A conversation with freelance journalist, Dimiter Kenarov
Ida Noyes Hall
West Lounge
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago IL, 60637
Free and open to the public.
Light reception to follow.
"Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania" is a new project that will focus on a commodity called “a game changer,” promoted as a cleaner fossil alternative to coal and oil and cheered as the next step toward the American dream of energy independence. Poland is now Europe's center of shale gas. Like Pennsylvania, it embraces the promises and dangers of extraction. At the center of debate: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and an associated largely unexplored question of global politics.
Dimiter Kenarov is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and a contributing editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in Esquire, Outside, The Nation, the International Herald Tribune, and others, and has been twice anthologized in "The Best American Travel Writing." He is currently working on a book-length project about the Black Sea.
The program will be moderated by Stanley M. Ellis, Vice President of Calkins Media. Ellis, a third-generation member of the Calkins family, has extensive experience in operations and strategic planning for the media industry. Prior to his current role, he served on the company’s Print and Digital Operating Committees and was Publisher of the Burlington County Times, a daily newspaper in Southern New Jersey. He has a degree in marketing from Penn State and an MBA from The Wharton School.
