University of Texas to Review Report on Gas Fracking Impacts
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The University of Texas at Austin will assemble a group of independent experts to review its February report on gas fracking after reports said the professor who led the study is on the board of a gas driller.
The review could be completed in weeks, Steven Leslie, university provost and executive vice president, said in a statement yesterday. The university’s Energy Institute released a report Feb. 16 on the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, that was proposed and presented by Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute and former director of the U.S. Geological Survey.