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Aubrey James Shepherd's You Tube channel

Click link to go to You Tube for full-page view and sound from Oct. 21 and 24 2013, recording at Fayetteville Public Access Television

Aubrey's short takes recorded Oct. 21 and 24, 2013, to run today throught Friday, Nov. 1, 2013

Video clip from grand opening of Marion Orton recycling center

Marion Orton recycling center opening VIDEO

Jeff Brenaman preparing the recently completed Marion Orton recycling center for Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, grand opening at 10 a.m.

Running this week on Fayetteville Public TV at 218 on Cox Cable at ATT U-verse

Short takes recorded 17 October 2013 at Fayetteville AR public TV station.

Shale-gas economics subject of Oct. 17, 2013, public meeting at the Pat Walker Senior Center on the southeast corner of the Washington Regional Medical Center campus on Appleby Drive

DEBORAH ROGERS, Financial Analyst, Invited To Discuss Shale Gas Economics Oct. 17

Messengers who bring news that people do not want to hear are often brushed aside and ignored. It took a child, who was not affected by peer pressure or ridicule to declare “the Emperor has no clothes!” When Deborah Rogers first reported her findings that the natural gas industry’s claims and their real world production numbers did not jibe, the industry tried to discredit her in an effort to draw attention away from what she said. Since that time more data and more independent reports confirm her early assumptions. Policy makers, financial advisers, and investors should be aware of natural gas boom/bust possibilities since resource extraction historically follows this pattern. The industry’s marketing campaigns claim natural gas is an energy bridge to a sustainable future. Ms. Rogers describes the economic future she sees for unconventional gas and questions the predictions of it being a hundred year supply.

Deborah Rogers is a financial analyst and founder of the Energy Policy Forum. She was appointed to the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and serves on an advisory committee within the U.S. Department of Interior. Her professional experiences in investment banking and Wall Street have prepared her for evaluating business policy and financial issues. Ms. Rogers lectures on shale gas economics throughout the U.S. and abroad at Universities, business venues and public forums. She is the author of Shale and Wall Street and has been featured in articles discussing the financial anomalies of shale gas in the New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, the Village Voice and London’s Guardian.

Most people have heard about the environmental problems of fracking, but do not see this directly impacting them. What is less known are the financial risks of natural gas investments and its potential to disrupt the economy and delay moving to a more sustainable energy future.

A reception to welcome Ms. Rogers will take place in the Pat Walker Senior Center on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM. The program will begin at 6:30PM in the auditorium. A Q&A will follow. Sponsors for this activity are the League of Women Voters of Arkansas, Ozark Headwaters Group of Sierra Club, OMNI Center, and Arkansas Interfaith Power and Light.

Internet resources on the Fayetteville Shale Play and hydraulic fracturing are here

Commenting at public meetings sort of like doing jury duty: Most people try to avoid it. But when they actually show up and do it, there is tremendous gratification

Get out to public meetings and share YOUR opinion. Doing that is a public service.
Mayor's town hall 30 Sept 2013 public-comment period.

Some beauty, some ugly, some good and some bad

Short-take videos for Sunday, Sept. 6, through Friday, Sept. 11, 2013, on Public Access Television on Northwest Arkansas Cox Cable and AT&T U-verse plus on the station's web site on demand.

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