Scientists for Global Responsibility- Executive Director and co-author of the report, Dr Stuart Parkinson said: "The evidence we have gathered shows that exploiting yet another new source of fossil fuels – such as UK shale gas – is likely to further undermine efforts to tackle climate change. We need to focus on low carbon energy sources, especially renewables, together with concerted efforts to save energy."

The full report can be found here: http://www.cieh.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=53520

COMPENDIUM OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING (UNCONVENTIONAL GAS AND OIL EXTRACTION) http://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CHPNY-Fracking-Compendium.pdf

Unconventional gas drilling is emerging as one of the most controversial energy & environmental issues in the United States and around the world today. http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/

Documents Reveal Billions of Gallons of Oil Industry Wastewater Illegally Injected
Into Central California Aquifers http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-10-06-2014.html

Informative Documentary "FRACK US"  http://rtd.rt.com/films/frack-us/#part-1

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Environment America Report "Fracking by the numbers" http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/fracking-numbers

 

New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/18/2484711/ipcc-report-more-certain-global-warming-is-caused-by-humans-impacts-speeding-up/

Why Oil wells Leak: Cement Behavior and Long-Term Consequences http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servlet/onepetropreview?id=00064733

Faulting and Fracking. Professor David Smythe http://www.davidsmythe.org/fracking/fracking.htm

State Policy Network http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fracking

An Evaluation of Water Quality in Private Drinking Water Wells Near Natural Gas Extraction Sites in the Barnett Shale Formation http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es4011724

New Internationalist Report  http://newint.org/blog/the_fracking_files.pdf

Shale gas Raising awareness about the impacts of unconventional oil and gas on the climate, the environment and health  http://www.foeeurope.org/shale-gas

Friends of the Earth Scotland briefing summary on fracking http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/sites/file/Unconventional_GasandFracking_briefingApril2012.pdf

Unconventional, unnecessary and unwanted:Why fracking for shale gas is a gamble the UK does not need to take. Friends of the Earth, Summary report. http://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/fracking_summary_2013.pdf

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Unconventional, unnecessary and unwanted. Why fracking for shale gas is a gamble the UK does not need to take. Friends of the Earth, FULL REPORT. http://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/unconventional_unnecessary.pdf

World Energy Outlook Special Report on Unconventional Gas http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/WEO2012_GoldenRulesReport-1.pdf

5 PSE Peer-reviewed documents on Induced-Seismicity http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/Library/Unconventional-Oil--Gas/Induced-Seismicity

Shale gas: a provisional assessment of climate change and environmental impacts  A research report by The Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester http://tyndall.ac.uk/sites/default/files/tyndall-coop_shale_gas_report_final.pdf

Academic Critique of Cuadrilla’s plans and proposals for drilling near Balcombe, West Sussex http://www.davidsmythe.org/fracking/cuadrilla%20sussex%20critique%20V1.pdf

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Briefing to Lancashire County Council by John Ashton http://www.e3g.org/docs/Briefing_for_Lancashire_County_Council.pdf