ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS

The project’s first annual meeting is being scheduled for Saturday, January 19, 2013, in Boulder, Colorado. Project task teams will discuss work plans.

Our local public radio station, KGNU, interviewed Jana Milford, the project’s air quality leader, and Joe Ryan, the project’s faculty director on October 23; Patty Limerick, the project’s outreach leader, on December 10, and Mark Williams, the project’s data management leader, on December 18 on their How on Earth and A Public Affair shows.

Both the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the Colorado Petroleum Association hosted project participants led by the project’s outreach director, Patty Limerick, at their annual meetings in Denverduring the week of October 5.

At the Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference held October 9-11 in Avon, Colorado, Joe Ryan, the project’s faculty director, moderated a session on hydraulic fracturing and discussed the project’s goals and tasks.

ROUTES TO SUSTAINABILITY FOR NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT AND WATER AND AIR RESOURCES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION


The University of Colorado Boulder is the lead institution for a Sustainability Research Network (SRN) funded by the National Science Foundation. The Network will engage twenty-seven researchers at nine institutions:

  • California State Polytechnic University Pomona
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Colorado School of Public Health (University of Colorado Denver)
  • Colorado State University
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • University Center for Atmospheric Research
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • University of Michigan

The mission of this Sustainability Research Network is to provide a logical, science-based framework for evaluating the environmental, economic, and social trade-offs between development of natural gas resources and protection of water and air resources and to convey the results of these evaluations to the public in a way that improves the development of policies and regulations governing natural gas and oil development.

Our goal is find the balance between maximizing the development of natural gas and oil resources – for the benefits of short-term reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from power generation and transportation, national energy independence, and national job growth – and minimizing damage to water and air resources and risks to human health.