“Fracking: Promise or Peril?” Forum to be Held at Kent State University

The School of Communication Studies at Kent State University announces its inaugural Global Communication Issues Forum, “Fracking: Promise or Peril?” featuring Dimiter Kenarov, a Pulitzer Center journalist, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. Paid parking is available. This event will examine the practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the earth.

The event will feature a recent reporting project by Kenarov on natural gas extraction in Poland, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Mitch McKenney, assistant professor in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The forum is free and open to the public.

For more information visit http://www.kent.edu/news/newsdetail.cfm?customel_datapageid_9299=3351539 or http://www.facebook.com/events/372573466175167/.