6:30 p.m.
Fort Worth Firefighters Hall
3855 Tulsa Way
Fort Worth,TX 76107
Ft. Worth League of Neighborhoods will be hosting a public meeting featuring Wilma Subra, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award winning chemist and Dr. Theo Colborn, internationally known Environmental Scientist known for her work on the health effects of fracking chemicals.
Topics to be covered will include:
Seating will be limited so come early.
Bio’s in alphabetical order:
Dr. Theo Colborn
Environmental health analyst
B.S. in pharmacy from Rutgers University,
M.A. in fresh water ecology from Western State College of Colorado,
PhD in zoology, with distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Field and laboratory research: mobilization of low levels of toxic trace metals in high altitude streams in Colorado.
Fellowship from the US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
Established and ran the Wildlife and Contaminants Program at World Wildlife Fund until 2002.
Served on the EPA Science Advisory Board and several EPA panels; on a Canada/US International Joint Commission Health Committee since 1989; advised
Environment Canada, Health Canada, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Department of the Interior,
the ATSDR.
Advised similar government agencies in Europe, the UK, and Japan. Published in scientific journals and books on the effects of low level and/or ambient exposure to toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors which has triggered action at the state, national, and international level to improve the protocols for testing chemicals when determining their safety.
Wilma Subra
Environmental Scientist, Chemist
Served seven year term as Vice-Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT)
National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation
EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) where she served as a member of the Cumulative Risk and Impacts Working Group of the NEJAC Council
Chaired the NEJAC Gulf Coast Hurricanes Work Group.
She is an EARTHWORKS board member and a Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project Steering Committee member.
Mrs. Subra holds degrees in Microbiology/Chemistry from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Received the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award from the MacArthur Foundation for helping ordinary citizens understand, cope with and combat environmental issues in their communities.
One of three finalists in the Environmental Category of the 2004 Volvo for Life Award.
About Sharon Wilson
Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.
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Congratulations to whoever's responsible for booking this pair at the same event. I hope the thing will be videotaped.
I would so like to get to this, but it is a long, long way from Junction, Texas to Fort Worth. To me, the goats that would born blind with drinking fractured water while gestating indicate the worst threat of all, i.e., the endocrine disruption that causes severe birth defects. Will we start seeing blind children near fracturing sites or other severe deformities?
Anyone around me want to share a ride there?
I plan to video it and post it on YOUTUBE, I'll post the link here in a comment. Carol if you cant make it,post your questions here, I can give it to them.
This should be an amazing night. I hope to be there. Thank you for this information. 🙂
I attended the meeting last night and found it both informative and in many ways alarming. Wilma Subra and the video with Theo Colborn were forthright in expressing the potential dangers of gas well drilling. These dangers included toxic contamination of our air,water, and land. The chesapeak
representative was dissapointing and obviously just spouting pro gas propaganda that never came close to addressing our concerns and fears abut gas well drilling and especially fracing. We are at a important junction in our communities and in the entire nation. We need to bring the oil and gas industries into line and abide by the clean air act. Our water resources depend on stopping this flagrant abuse of corporate power and disregard our citizens heatlh and well being.
I was not able to be there because of a community meeting regarding gas drilling. Sharon, is there a video available, yet? Or a summary of the meeting? Thank you. 🙂