Fracking Comic by FrackFreeSomerset

References, links & resources from the Fracking Comic

P7
Info on fracking fluid ingredients from the National Toxics Network, Australia ‘Hydraulic fracturing in coal seam gas mining: the risks to our health, communities, environment and climate’ Dr Marianne Lloyd-Smith and Dr Rye Senjen, September 2011 p5 – 10
http://ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/NTN-CSG-Report-Sep-2011.pdf

p8
‘Water UK estimates…’ New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf  p6
See also The Guardian, ‘Water shortages may make fracking impractical, industry says’, November 27 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/water-shortages-fracking-impractical-uk

p9
’30 – 60% of the water flows back’ New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’  December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf p6

‘Dump it in the Manchester Shipping Canal’. This is what happened after Cuadrilla’s fracking operation in 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25902272
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/caudrilla-withdraws-applications-to-frack-in-lancashire-after-encountering-problems-with-radioactive-waste-disposal-9088986.html
In Australia, wastewater has been dumped downstream or sprinkled on the road to keep dust down. National Toxics Network ‘Toxic Chemicals in the Exploration and Production of Gas from Unconventional Sources’ April 2013 p3
http://www.ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/UCgas_report-April-2013.pdf

p10
‘Of the wells drilled in the UK…’ Greenpeace ‘Fracking report:four things you need to know about fracking and well failures’ March 2014
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/fracking-report-four-things-you-need-know-about-fracking-and-leaks

p11
‘up to 1000 wells’ New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf  p8
‘You can only put so many bloody parking lots’ Huffington Post Feb 4th 2013, ‘Northeast gas drilling boom hurts wildlife, scientists say’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/northeast-gas-drilling-boom_n_3000449.html
More on habitat fragmentation http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=1565  ‘US Geological survey: natural gas tracking is destroying Pennsylvania forests’ oct 24 2012

p12
‘Just as there is no such thing’ – Dr Sarah Steingraber, quoted in New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf p11

p13
Info on symptoms experienced ‘Symptomatology of a gas field: an independent health survey in the Tara rural residential estates and environs’ Geralyn McCarron, April 2013
http://www.ntn.org.au/stop-csg/no-clean-bill-of-health-for-csg

p14
Stories on cow deaths and stillborn calves
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/03/reproductive-problems-death-animals-exposed-fracking  Cornell Chronicle March 7 2012 ‘study suggests hydrofracking is killing farm animals, pets’
http://www.thenation.com/article/171504/fracking-our-food-supply  The Nation, November 28 2012 ‘Fracking our food supply’

p15
Tara ‘Symptomatology of a gas field: an independent health survey in the Tara rural residential estates and environs’ Geralyn McCarron, April 2013
http://www.ntn.org.au/stop-csg/no-clean-bill-of-health-for-csg
Texas drinking water New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf

No EIA required for flaring New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf

pink footed goose http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/shale_gas_summary_tcm9-365778.pdf

p16
60% of land http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-licence-clear-out-preparation-for-new-sell-off/
The eight sites with community protection camps are: Balcombe, Barton Moss, Crawberry Hill, Upton, Belcoo, West Newton, Daneshill and Farndon. Info is available linked from http://frack-off.org.uk/

p17
126 arrests at Balcombe resulted in 29 convictions. The Guardian, ‘Sussex police under fire for “criminalising” fracking protests’, 15 May 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/15/sussex-police-criminalising-fracking-protest-acquittals-balcombe

p19
Steve Hambleton and Mary O’Kane both quoted in National Toxics Network ‘CSG and your health’ December 2013 http://www.ntn.org.au/stop-csg/csg-and-your-health
North Dakota New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf

p20
‘pro fracking lobbyists donated’ New Internationalist ‘The Fracking Files’ December 2013 http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf

p21
‘The government is currently trying to rush through legislation’ ‘Government confirms plan to let fracking firms drill under homes’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/plan-fracking-firms-drill-homes-queens-speech

p22
EIA not required http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/shale_gas_summary_tcm9-365778.pdf
Barbastelle bats http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/shale_gas_summary_tcm9-365778.pdf
Environment agency job cuts, The Independent ‘Massive job cuts at Environment Agency’ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/massive-job-cuts-at-the-environment-agency-8909182.html 28 oct 2013
Royal society http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/latest-news/the-lancet-sounds-alarms-on-the-health-risks-of-fracking/
For more on the shambles that is the state of regulation – or lack thereof – on fracking in the UK today, see http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/investigations/foi-documents-reveal-confusion-over-shale-regulation or Friends of the Earth ‘All that glitters…’ June 2014
http://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/all-glitters-critique-fracking-regulation-46660.pdf

p23
Why fracking is a new technology
http://frack-off.org.uk/if-fracking-has-been-happening-since-1947-what-is-there-to-worry-about/
http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/latest-news/how-does-high-volume-slick-water-hydraulic-fracturing-of-shale-differ-from-traditional-hydraulic-fracturing/

p24
Lifelong gagging order http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/08/01/lifelong-gag-order-imposed-on-two-kids-in-fracking-case/
Free pizza http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/18/after-fracking-blastchevronofferspizza.html
Cuadrilla refused to talk http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/latest-news/local-resident-denied-appointment-at-cuadrillas-surgery-because-he-shared-information-with-other-residents/

p25
CBM and UCG could lead to further coal extraction
http://frack-off.org.uk/resource/20-impacts-of-coal-bed-methane-cbm/
Gas is more polluting than coal
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/ese3.35

p26 Jobs claim
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/news/will-shale-gas-uk-generate-64000-jobs-three-reasons-why-it-may-not
http://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#economics
http://www.gasfieldfreemendip.org/what-is-unconventional-gas/economy-regulation/

p27
‘If gas extraction companies paid’ RSPB http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/policy/climatechange/action/ukenergy/fit-to-frack.aspx
‘Policing the protests cost ￡4.4 million’
http://www.sussex-pcc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PAM-Minutes-20.9.2013.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25829777
‘baseless economics’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/david-cameron-fracking-lord-stern
Shale gas fracking has been – wrongly – hyped as cheap http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/11006723/fracking-for-Shale-gas-the-dotcom-bubble-of-our-times.html?fb
‘the geology is simpler’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/03/uk-complex-geology-challenge-fracking-drinking-water ‘UK’s complex geology will pose fracking challenges, developers warned’ The Guardian, Thursday 3rd July 2014
‘UK gas is traded internationally..’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/12/anti-fracking-protests-corporation-interest

p30
http://www.energybillrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ACE-and-EBR-fact-file-2014-01-Fuel-Poverty-update-2014.pdf 10% of disposable income
http://www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/uncategorized/gas-a-fuel-we-cant-afford/
http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/why-we-must-stop-gas/
suggestion from unite http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27858005

p32 Repower Balcombe http://www.repowerbalcombe.com/

p33 “Getting smashed” http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100250427/why-the-fracking-industry-admits-it-is-getting-smashed-by-public-opposition/

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