From Jane Helen Hughes (Australia)
SCIENCE & CHEMICAL COAL SEAM GAS DATA
Seizures is another good word to search, babies and adults having seizures, babies out here. RAW NATURAL GAS is METHANE BTEX the BTEX is equivalent to petrol sniffing 24/7. In the U.S. the seizures are in humans, and animals, well documented.


Politicians in our network against fracking
Graham Watson (previous MEP, LibDem)
Caroline Lucas (MP, GreenParty)
Vikki Slade (LibDem, Poole)
Hugo Mieville (LibDem)
Patrick Canavan (Labour, Poole)
Vix Lowthion (Green Party, Isle of Wight)
Cat Smith (MP)
Alyn Smith (MEP, SNP) - article


Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP
Green Party MP Caroline was arrested as anti-fracking campaigner in Balcombe 2013. The Green Party has for years called for an outright Ban on all fracking operations and for licences to be withdrawn as soon as possible. It also calls for the UK and EU to close loopholes on regulations to protect our Water, Soil and Air.

Tim Farron, Liberal Democrats MP
The LibDems vote for a policy to ban fracking at the Spring Conference 2016.

Barry Gardiner is Labour MP for Brent North and Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change
Article

Richard Boyd Barrett TD Introducing the the Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015 in the Dáil
Video

Kerry McCarthy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
delivered her keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference today.



Oil and Gas exploration experts in our network 

Charles Miller, Kevin Andersson, Mike Hill, Yuri Gorby, Water engineer Peter Rolinson, Andrew Alpin, Mark Wills , Dave Sadler
(Experts, scientists, engineers) - Video

Prof Steve Keen Kingston UNI London, @stevekeen

Anthony R Ingraffea - Video
Dept: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Title: Dwight C. Baum Professorship in Engineering
ARI1@cornell.edu - www.cfg.cornell.edu
Search: INGRAFFEA, radioactive, ARMOR charges, perforating guns, I noticed they leave the HORIZONTAL explosives off, TONS ON THE SCIENCE PAGES, manufacturing and proofs. Radioactivity deep down in the subterrain, means that radioactivity will migrate up to the surface. Search for perforating guns and armor charges used in all mining today, particularly in the gas, oil and fracking industries.


Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith - Video - Article
Mariann describes the Benzene levels produced by a handful of Dart Energy exploration wells as extraordinary and very worrying. The Benzene levels Dart Energy are displaying on their website exceed World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for drinking water and are 12 times the UK and Australian drinking water standards. Most experts agree that there is no safe level for Benzene in drinking water. It would appear that Dart Energy and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) assume that once discharged the effluent will have no effect on the ecosystem of the estuary or the human population around it. Published on 30 May 2013


Scientist Robert Howarth - article
Food & Water Watch Welcomes Scientist Robert Howarth to its Board. Howarth is the author of several studies showing how hydraulic fracturing (fracking), in particular the release of methane throughout the lifecycle of the process, contributes to climate change.


Dr Paula Gilvarry
a retired GP based in Co Sligo


Christopher Busby
is an expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation. He qualified in Chemical Physics at the Universities of London and Kent


David K. Smythe BSc, PhD - report
(Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow) for the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee on UK shale adds an important geologic concern to the list of headwinds facing UK shale development.
"Our Fault" - The Geologic Concern That Could Derail UK Shale Before It Begins [White Paper Critique]


Alan J Tootill - commenting on CCC report
The CCC report on compatibility of fracking with Climate Change targets is FINALLY out. Not as clear cut as we might have hoped. The BBC has already reported it as backing fracking with safeguards. It'll be a repeat of the RA&RSE report whitewash all over again.
The government response to the CCC report, that had Angela Loathsome fending off questions about for weeks? Do nothing! "the government says it will take no regulatory action in response to the report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), arguing that the current regime is “adaptive” and will change if fracking companies go into full scale production. It says it is important to take advantage of the “fantastic opportunity” of fracking and that it is determined to meet its carbon targets."

- commenting on article
Executive summary extract by Alan Tootill
Test 1 will fail because the government has already indicated its lack of will to implement these.
Test 2 will fail because the intention is to increase UK gas production and increase gas use to replace coal
Test 3 will fail because, well you know why. The government policies are stifling renewables and low-carbon energy.
Our assessment is that exploiting shale gas by fracking on a significant scale is not compatible with UK climate targets unless three tests are met:

Test 1: Well development, production and decommissioning emissions must be strictly limited. Emissions must be tightly regulated and closely monitored in order to ensure rapid action to address leaks.

- A range of technologies and techniques to limit methane emissions should be required, including ‘reduced emissions completions’ (also known as ‘green completions’) and liquid unloading mitigation technologies (e.g. plunger lift systems) should these be needed;

- A monitoring regime that catches potentially significant methane leaks early is essential in order to limit the impact of ‘super-emitters’;

- Production should not be allowed in areas where it would entail significant CO2 emissions resulting from the change in land use (e.g. areas with deep peat soils);

- The regulatory regime must require proper decommissioning of wells at the end of their lives. It must also ensure that the liability for emissions at this stage rests with the producer.

Test 2: Consumption – gas consumption must remain in line with carbon budgets requirements. UK unabated fossil energy consumption must be reduced over time within levels we have previously advised to be consistent with the carbon budgets. This means that UK shale gas production must displace imported gas rather than increasing domestic consumption.

Test 3: Accommodating shale gas production emissions within carbon budgets.

Additional production emissions from shale gas wells will need to be offset through reductions elsewhere in the UK economy, such that overall effort to reduce emissions is sufficient to meet carbon budgets.
There are also potential implications of UK shale production for global emissions, namely :
- Lifecycle emissions of tightly regulated domestic shale gas as against imports. The overall emissions footprint of UK shale gas, if tightly regulated, is likely to be broadly similar to that of imported gas. Tightly regulated domestic production may provide a small emissions saving when displacing imports of liquefied natural gas.
- Impact on the global energy system. Increased UK production of fossil fuels could affect global emissions, depending on the extent to which this displaces coal, displaces low-carbon energy or leads to increased fossil fuel consumption.


Tim Thornton (GP), Eddie Thornton (journalist) - website
Tim Thornton has been a GP in North Yorkshire for 30 years with interests from maternity care through to terminal care. Born in Yorkshire, worked in Kenya and moved back to his Yorkshire home to train and practice. Tim is now semi retired but works part-time around Ryedale which leaves flexibility to be more public health orientated when volunteering in the Kalahari in Namibia.
Getting an understanding of the health, social and environmental impacts of fracking has been a slow and uncertain process. To enable others to understand more readily what the issues are, Tim and Eddie have collected scientific papers and review articles and created this website to share information.
After a period at the BBC, Eddie Thornton spent two years working on a cattle ranch in Argentina. Living with the gauchos of Patagonia he developed an interest in sustainability and organic agriculture. He is now making organic cheese in Botton Village, a community for adults with learning disabilities on the North York Moors.
Eddie’s main concern about fracking is the environmental impact. The scientific reports coming out of the US and Australia, air pollution, water contamination and risk to public health seem to be the unavoidable cost of this industry.
Our government seeks to assure us that in Britain it will be different, but from our understanding of the technology, fracking cannot be carried out without massive environmental impact. Since the announcement that the UK was going all out for shale gas, we have been trying to collect information on the likely consequences.



Lawyers
Søren Stenderup Jensen (Siriusadvokater.com), Ashley Bowes (Cornerstone Barristers), Jamie Potter (Bindmans London), Jake White (FOE London), Emily Shirley (Non practising Barrister/campaigner)


Legal experts following our work
Brian Arrigoni, campaigner in Cornwall
Peter Stefanovic (Lawyer/Partner at Simpson Millar LLP Solicitors)

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