Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case

Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case by Jim Efstathiou Jr., July 22, 2012, Bloomberg
Calgary-based Encana Corp. (ECA) which operates gas wells in Wyoming’s Jonah field, has given $7 million dollars to the university over the past six years to better train students for the oil and gas sector, according to Encana spokesman Doug Hock. … The corporate generosity has some worried about the impact on academic independence. “There’s no question that the oil and gas industry is approaching the University of Wyoming with a great deal of walking-around money and directly funding some of these departments with the apparent agenda of influence peddling, and it seems to be working very well for them,” Erik Molvar, a wildlife biologist with the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance in Laramie, Wyoming, said in an interview. … “You’ve got the authority of a public research university being used to publish research by individuals with a strong bias to the natural-gas industry,”