Behold, the UB Shale Resources and Society Institute
Our shadowy informants have sent us this link to the the new website for the UB Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI). Click here if you’d like to fund it through the office of Corporate and...
View ArticleSRSI Plays Password
The State University of New York at Buffalo’s Shale Research and Society Institute (SRSI) has ended public access to its website, according to this post by the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI). A...
View ArticleUB Shale Institute Held Secret Meetings
According to this statement from UB, released Thursday (6/28), their embattled Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) held open meetings. From the statement: “There continue to be many...
View ArticleInside Higher Ed Looks at UB Shale Institute
Joining an ever-growing number of media outlets, Inside Higher Ed, a web-based daily based in Washington, DC that covers college and university issues ran this story on Friday—adding to the notoriety...
View ArticleBloomberg: Public Universities Sell Out to Frackers
The State University of New York at Buffalo is not alone when it comes to spitting out phony research supportive of high-volume horizontal fracking, Bloomberg.com reports today. This time, our local...
View ArticleIndustry-Backed Frack Studies are a Global Problem
Just as the flawed UB Shale Resources and Society Institute study was quickly used to influence Washington, DC lawmakers, a similarly controversial University of Texas study was trotted out to...
View ArticleUB Professors, Professional Staff Call for Transparency
Today, the UB Reporter website has published this open letter addressed to UB administration, signed by 83 professors and professional staff at the State University of New York at Buffalo, urging the...
View ArticleBloomberg Reports on UB Faculty/Staff Letter
Bloomberg’s Jim Efstathiou Jr. posted this story today, garnering still more bad press for the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) thanks to its secretive Shale Resources and Society Institute...
View ArticleUB Math Professor Defends Incorrect Math
Today, Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) researcher and UB Law student Rob Galbraith publishes this piece reiterating how incorrect the math is in the first report issued by the Shale Resources...
View ArticleAnti-Frack Group to Protest Shale Institute
New Yorkers Against Fracking will protest the UB Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) outside the SUNY Board of Trustees meeting in Albany today at 12:30pm, according to this report on the...
View ArticleMeet the SRSI Advisory Board
Last week, SUNY Trustees resolved to get answers from UB regarding its controversial Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI). The institute has come under fire since its inception, and has...
View ArticleUB Shale Institute Director Supports Fracking Los Angeles
John P. Martin has credentials. On the one hand, he claimed in February, 2012, to be the director of the UB Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) at a US Department of Energy Conference in...
View ArticleSUNY Releases UB Shale Institute Report
This afternoon, SUNY Director of Communications David Doyle sent Artvoice a copy of the 162-page UB Shale Institute report requested by SUNY trustees. “In the interest of transparency,” Doyle writes,...
View ArticleUB Closes Shale Institute
Satish K. Tripathi, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, sent an email to all university employees this afternoon, announcing his decision to close the much-criticized Shale...
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