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A1. Fracking, Do Something!
Action on unconventional gas
As we reach the limits to growth the certainties that underpin the modern economic system are failing. As 'easy to produce' oil and gas deplete the energy industry is seeking more extreme fuel sources, from deep ocean drilling to tar sands. 'Unconventional gas' is a series of technologies that seek to get natural gas from hard to produce/unconventional sources of rock. This sheet looks at the legal and procedural issues related to the development of unconventional gas in the UK, and how the public can intercede at each stage in order to oppose these developments.
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Further information for Sheet A1 –
Further reading:
Onshore UK 13th Licensing Round Report, Deloitte, June 2008
http://www.psg.deloitte.com/NewsLicensingRounds_GB_ON_0806.asp
Strategic Environmental Assessment
for a 14th – and subsequent – onshore oil and gas licensing round, Conference Papers, Department of
Energy and Climate Change
http://og.decc.gov.uk/en/olgs/cms/tech_papers/conf_papers/conf_papers.aspx
Shale Gas, Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Fifth Report of 2010-2012 Session (HC795), Energy and Climate Change Select
Committee, 23rd May 2011
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenergy/795/795.pdf- Methane and the greenhouse-gas
footprint of natural gas from shale formations – A letter, Howarth et. al., Climatic Change, vol.106 no.4 pp.679-690, 2011
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarth%20et%20al%20%202011.pdf - Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Shale
Gas Obtained by High-Volume, Slick-Water Hydraulic Fracturing, Howarth et. al., 2012
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Marcellus.html - Air sampling reveals high
emissions from gas field, Jeff Tollefson, Nature, 7th February 2012
http://www.nature.com/news/air-sampling-reveals-high-emissions-from-gas-field-1.9982 - The Unconventional Hydrocarbon
Resources of Britain's Onshore Basins: Shale Gas, DECC, 2010
https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/UKpromote/onshore_paper/UK_onshore_shalegas.pdf - The Unconventional Hydrocarbon
Resources of Britain's Onshore Basins: Coalbed Methane, DECC 2010
https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/UKpromote/onshore_paper/Promote_UK_CBM.pdf - Natural Gas Operations from
a Public Health Perspective, Colborn et.al. (draft), Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment,
vol.17 no.11 pp.1039-1056, October 2011
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/Oct2011HERA10-48forweb3-3-11.pdf - Methane contamination of
drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing, Osborn et. al., Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 2011
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/02/1100682108.full.pdf+html - Doubt is not an agreeable
condition, but certainty is an absurd one, Ecolonomics No.11, Paul Mobbs, April 2011
http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/ecolonomics/01/ecolonomics-011-20110416.shtml - A Comparison of the Limits to Growth
with Thirty Years of Reality, Graham Turner, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), June 2008
http://www.fraw.org.uk/fwd?csiro2008 - Oil's tipping point has passed,
James Murray and David King, Nature, vol.481 pp.433-435, 26th January 2012
http://www.fraw.org.uk/fwd?murrayking2012 
The Limits to Growth Revisited, Ugo Bardi, Springer, June 2011.
ISBN 9781-4419-9415-8. £45.- Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update, Donella Meadows,
Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows, Earthscan, 2004. ISBN 978-1844071449. £14.99.
Videos/TV programmes:
- What you need to know
about natural gas production, Theo Colborn, TEDX, 2011
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.video.php - Is the future of British coal
burning it underground?, Channel 4 News, Wednesday 4th January 2012
http://www.channel4.com/news/is-the-future-of-british-coal-burning-it-underground - Fracking: Concerns over gas
extraction regulations, Susan Watts, BBC Newsnight, 20th March 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17448428 - Company's plan for coal
gasification in Swansea Bay, Iolo ap Dafydd, BBC News, 16th January 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16567883 - Infra-red Video of Drilling
Air Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, YouTube, 9th November 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ybofaO9wI - The hidden cost of the
US hydraulic fracturing, Ecologist Film Unit, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyHS7fKmXI - Is Coal Seam Gas worth the risk?
– The backlash to a billion dollar industry, Peter McCutcheon, ABC News (Australia), 19th September 2011
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3321223.htm
Web sites:
Jam Tomorrow: Unconventional Gas
and Britain's Energy Future, Free Range Energy Beyond Oil Project, 2011
http://www.fraw.org.uk/fwd?jamtomorrow- Frack Off!
http://frack-off.org.uk/ - No Fracking UK
http://nofrackinguk.com/ - Ribble Estuary Against Fracking
http://reafg.blogspot.com/ - The Vale Says NO!
http://thevalesaysno.com/ - Don't Frack with the Fylde
http://dont-frack-with-the-fylde.blogspot.com/ - Fracking Free Ireland
http://frackingfreeireland.org/ - FrackTracker
(Center for Healthy Environments and Communities)
http://www.fractracker.org/
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