Webinar - Fueling the Laurentian Great Lakes Region: Multiple Modes, Multiple Perspectives
Date/Time:
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Online - Registration required
Fueling the Laurentian Great Lakes Region: Multiple Modes, Multiple Perspectives
Join the Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network for the first installment in their 2022 summer webinar series!
This panel presentation and discussion will explore the movement of hazardous materials, with a focus on crude oil and its refined products, throughout the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, Lake Champlain, and Hudson River regions from multiple perspectives. Panelists will provide background on multimodal crude oil transport pathways, the regional energy economy, environmental impacts of crude oil transportation, and social impacts of oil movement and spills. A facilitated question and answer period will follow the presentations.
Panelists:
- Dr. Marcello Graziano, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University and Associate Director, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, University of Connecticut
- Dr. Michael W. Murray, Lecturer, Augusta University
- Dr. Liesel Ritchie, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Coastal Studies, Virginia Tech
- Dr. Richard Stewart, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Superior