Spotlight@Northern interviews Peter Carrels

Professor Jon Schaff and I continue to appear on our NSU TV show, Spotlight@Northern. You can watch the show on Channel 12 in the local market.  I will post a link when the show is available online.

Our guest this past week was Peter Carrels, who is a regional representative for the Sierra Club. I have known Pete for a long time. He is a very intelligent, very well-informed, and serious proponent of environmentalism. He also knows more about the James River than the James River does.

In our show, Pete mostly discusses the Hyperion oil refinery project. He does most the talking, so the show is interesting. Let me know what you think.

We are attempting to arrange an interview with another, equally interesting guest: Ron Bailey, the science correspondent at Reason magazine. If we can iron out the technical difficulties of remote interviewing, this should be a heck of a show. Keep a lookout.

ps. Here is the now curren link to the show. 

Comments

[Donald Pay]

Your link does not lead to Peter Carrels. I'll check back later. Maybe it will be updated.

Pete wrote the definitive history of the Oahe Irrigation Project, and the fight against it. "Uphill Against Water" is a must for anyone wanting to understand much of the political history of South Dakota during the last half of the 20th century. The people associated with the Oahe fight were heros to me, and I was lucky enough to get to know and work with some of them. Pete is the expert on the James River, and spearheaded efforts to protect the river from being turned into a ditch for irrigation return flows, to clean up the river and to make it work like a true prairie river again.

[Ken Blanchard]

As Donald notes, the link I posted led to the previous show. I will post a link when the most recent show becomes available.

[Miranda]

The show that is currently playing is worth the watch as well. Where else can you see two political scientists, a sociologist, a pastor and two mice in the same room?