Unconventional Gas in Scotland – Introduction
An introduction to Unconventional Gas in Scotland. In this Parliamentary Briefing, Scottish Environment Link, a Scottish Charity, make a very convincing case against UG extraction.
http://www.scotlink.org/files/policy/ParliamentaryBriefings/LINKBriefingFUGJune13.pdf
Friends of the Earth: Fracking in Scotland – unsafe, unnecessary and unwanted
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/fracking#What%20is%20happening%20in%20Scotland
Fracking Scotland: Time to get Organised:
http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-scotland-time-to-get-organised/
Fracking Scotland: FRACKING AROUND WITH THE LAW:
http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-around-with-the-law/
Recent Reports and Studies
Contrary to rhetoric asserting that there is no scientific evidence that shows the risks of Unconventional Gas, there is a continually growing body of independent evidence. We shall continue to try and add links to these here for you to read and research for yourself.
Westminster commissioned Environmental Audit Committee report on Unconventional Gas calls for a UK wide moratorium Jan 15 2015 :
https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/89642973/westminsterenvironcommitteereportonfrackingjan152015856-1.pdf
This 2014 Compendium from the Concerned Health Professionals of New York is a fully referenced compilation of the significant body of scientific, medical, and journalistic findings demonstrating risks and harms of fracking. It informed the recent ban in New York
http://concernedhealthny.org/compendium/
This 2014 Report argues that the UK Government has a clear and urgent duty to fully investigate the human rights implications of fracking before authorising any exploratory or extractive fracking operations in the UK.
http://gnhre.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HRIA-FINAL-WITH-APPENDICES-HIGH-RES.pdf
This study, commissioned by the European Climate Foundation, reviews the technical and economic status of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technologies, and develops a series of scenarios to assess the possible implications for the climate. It finds that the technical and cost obstacles to effective deployment of high levels of carbon capture in UCG are more significant than advocates of the technology acknowledge, and that the risk of increased or prolonged unabated use of coal as a result of UCG could become a serious climate threat.
https://sites.google.com/site/mclarenerc/research/ucg-and-climate
Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People published a briefing in 2014 on how Uncoventional Gas relates to the rights of children and young people.
http://www.sccyp.org.uk/ufiles/Full-fracking-briefing.pdf
An independent health survey in the Tara rural residential estates and environs. This report documents an investigation during February and March 2013 by a concerned General Practitioner, in relation to health complaints by people living in close proximity to coal seam gas development in SW Australia
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/lockthegate/pages/49/attachments/original/1367333672/2013-04-symptomatology_of_a_gas_field_Geralyn_McCarron.pdf?1367333672
This analysis from PSE Health Energy is intended to provide a cursory overview of what is currently known about the potential impacts of shale gas development on human health and the environment. It includes only the published peer-reviewed literature available on the subject.
http://psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1233
This 2013 paper shows significant health risks posed by outdated regulatory frameworks, outlines the current state-of-the-art regarding low level exposures to industrial toxins and relates these failings to Dart Energy’s Proposal to extract gas in Falkirk Local Authority
http://www.faug.org.uk/sites/default/files/Potential%20Public%20Health%20risks%20associated%20with%20Application%20P_12_0521_FUL.pdf
Independent Analysis
Coastal Paradises set to become Coal Seam Gas Experiments. February 16th 2015 by Laura Cameron Lewis.
https://lauracameronlewis.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/coastal-paradises-set-to-become-coal-gas-experiments/
Geo Thermal Energy Provides a Real Solution to Energy Security. February 15th 2015 by Laura Cameron Lewis.
https://lauracameronlewis.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/geothermal-energy-provides-a-real-solution-to-energy-security/
Sold from Under our Feet. February 15th 2015 by Laura Cameron Lewis.
https://lauracameronlewis.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/sold-from-under-our-feet/
Biggarideas: Infrastructure Bill: What’s really happened?January 27 2015 by Janet Moxley
https://biggarideas.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/infrastructure-bill-whats-really-happened/
Biggarideas: What Scottish Government could do about fracking even without Independence. October 22 2014 by Janet Moxley:
https://biggarideas.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/what-scottish-government-could-do-about-fracking-even-without-independence/
Community Charter
The following links are to Concerned Communities of Falkirk, community campaigners and pioneers who wrote the first Community Charter in the UK.
Falkirk Against Unconventional Gas: No risky gas in Falkirk:
http://www.faug.org.uk/
Concerned Communities of Falkirk Representation to Scottish Ministers:
https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/89642973/ccofrepresentationtoscottishministers28final29.pdf
Community Councils and Peoples of Larbert, Stenhousemuir and Torwood; Avonbridge and Standburn; Bo’ness; and Shieldhill and California, Community Charter
https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/89642973/communitycharter.pdf
Our Forth Public Meeting October 26th 2014
Here are videos from Our Forth’s first public meeting in October 2014.
Videos from the second public meeting in January 2015 will be here soon.
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 1 – Introduction
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 2 – Laura Eaton-Lewis
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 3 – John Fitzgerald
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 4 – Jamie McKenzie Hamilton
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 5 – Q&A
Portobello Public Meeting 26/10/14 – Part 6 – Structuring A Campaign
Health risks
- Potential Public Health Risks Associated with Application P/12/0521/FUL
In order to demonstrate the significant health risks posed by outdated regulatory frameworks, this paper first outlines the current state-of-the-art regarding low level exposures to industrial toxins. Next, it relates these failings to the current Proposal to extract gas in Falkirk Local Authority.
- Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith speaking about toxic risks of CSG (aka Coal Bed Methane)
In this presentation at the Lismore Community Information evening concerning CSG mining in the Northern Rivers, Dr Lloyd-Smith presents a detailed and devastating analysis of the poisonous effects of this destructive industry.
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- Agenda: Unconventional gas extraction and public health
The recent coal bed methane gas development proposals in Scotland, with possibilities of related extensive fracking looming in the Central Belt, present many challenges for Scotland and raise questions about sustainability and energy policies, economic growth and public health. So says Professor…
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- Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms Of Fracking (Unconventional Gas And Oil Extraction)
The Compendium is a fully referenced compilation of the significant body of scientific, medical, and journalistic findings demonstrating risks and harms of fracking.
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- Developmental and reproductive effects of chemicals associated with unconventional oil and natural gas operations
A review of the scientific literature providing evidence that adult and early life exposure to chemicals associated with UOG operations can result in adverse reproductive health and developmental effects in humans.
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- Energy: shared interests in sustainable development and energy services
A 2013 World Health Organization report discusses the health impacts of fracking.
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- Extreme Energy Extraction – Frack off!
This is an article by Morag Parnell that originally appeared in Perspectives magazine and is reproduced here with permission.
- Symptomatology of a gas field
An independent health survey in the Tara rural residential estates and environs. This report documents an investigation during February and March 2013 by a concerned General Practitioner, in relation to health complaints by people living in close proximity to coal seam gas development in SW…
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- Toward an understanding of the environmental and public health impacts of shale gas development: an analysis of the peer reviewed scientific literature, 2009-2014
This analysis from PSE Health Energy is intended to provide a cursory overview of what is currently known about the potential impacts of shale gas development on human health and the environment. It includes only the published peer-reviewed literature available on the subject. Specifically, this…
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- Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations
As natural gas production rapidly increases across the U.S., its associated pollution has reached the stage where it is contaminating essential life support systems – water, air, and soil – and causing harm to the health of humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and vegetation. This project was…
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Unconventional gas
- LINK Parliamentary Briefing – Unconventional Gas; ‘Fracking’, Coal-bed methane and other extraction methods
This is the perfect introduction to Unconventional Gas (UG) in Scotland. In this Parliamentary Briefing, Scottish Environment Link, a Scottish Charity, make a very convincing case against UG extraction.
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- Gas leak! ABC 4 corners documentary
Transmitted in Australia on ABC1 on Monday 1st April 2013. ‘Gas Leak!’ raises concerns about the coal bed methane industry (known as coal seam gas, CSG, in Australia) on prime time television.
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- A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing and Other Unconventional Gas Development in the UK
This Report argues that the UK Government has a clear and urgent duty to fully investigate the human rights implications of fracking before authorising any exploratory or extractive fracking operations in the UK.
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- After 160 years Central Scotland has had enough
When new technology offers us great promise – and the new gas boom certainly does, offering up cheap, clean energy and jobs galore – it’s worth taking time to consider what lessons can we learn from history.
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- Climate implications of underground coal gasification
This study, commissioned by the European Climate Foundation, reviews the technical and economic status of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technologies, and develops a series of scenarios to assess the possible implications for the climate.
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- Map of unconventional gas licence areas in the UK
This interactive map shows sites (drilled, planned and approved) for coalbed methane and shale gas in the UK. DECC licence blocks are also shown.
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- Mariann Lloyd-Smith Unconventional Gas Talk in Falkirk
YouTube video of ‘Coal-Bed Methane: What it Means for Falkirk and Stirling’, a presentation by toxics expert Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith on 22 May 2013.
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- Contaminated sites and accidents related to CSG/LNG in Australia
Contaminated sites and accidents related specifically to CSG / LNG in Australia (CoalSeamGasNew.org, 2012)
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