Resources

Fact sheets, leaflets, reports and presentations published by Climate Justice Taranaki:

• CJT Fracking Fact Sheet 10 May 2012 (PDF 888 kB)
• Resource consents issued by TRC from 1 August 2011- 1 March 2012 (PDF 342 kB)
• Information on “Fracturing Products” excerpt from material safety data sheets, March 2012 (PDF 400 kB)
• Climate Justice leaflet, Feb 2012 (PDF -186 kB)
• Taranaki oil and gas infosheet, 2 Jan 2012 (PDF 950 kB)
• Fracking Myths, 11 May 2011 (PDF  112 kB)
• Action Against Extraction – Oil & gas exploration in Taranaki, April 2011 (PDF 174 kB)
• Powerpoint on Taranaki’s new oil & gas permits, presented at public meeting in Okato on 22 March 2011 (PPT – 8.2MB)

Some important scientific studies (more on Clean Country Coalition website):

• Are sesmicity rate changes in the midcontinent natural or manmade? (to be presented in April 2012, ELLSWORTH, W. L., et al from USGS) A write up about the study is available at EENews.
• Managing the seismic risk posed by wastewater disposal (April 2012, Mark D. Zoback, Earth Magazine)
• Human health risk assessment of air emissions from development of unconventional natural gas resources (March 2012, L. McKenzie et al, University of Colorado)
• Study suggests hydrofracking is killing farm animals, pets (7 March 2012, Cornell University, USA) Download full paper: Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health, Bamberger and Oswald (2012) in New Solutions 22(1) 51-77
• The truth about fracking, Chris Mooney in Scientific American Oct 19, 2011
• Frac Tracker Academic Research, a comprehensive site with links to many substantial research

Taranaki Regional Council and GNS Science reports:

• An assessment of the effects of hydraulic fracturing on seismicity in the Taranaki region, GNS, Feb 2012 (1.4 Mb)
• Hydrogeological risk assessment of hydraulic fracturing for gas recovery in the Taranaki Region, Taranaki Regional Council, published on 24 Nov 2011, updated on 17 Feb 2012 (1.9 Mb)
• Appendix 1 Material Safety Data Sheets for Fracturing Products, Hydrogeological risk assessment of hydraulic fracturing for gas recovery in the Taranaki Region, Taranaki Regional Council, published on 24 Nov 2011, updated on 17 Feb 2012 (14 Mb)
• Abandoned oil and gas wells a reconnaissance study of an unconventional geothermal resource.pdf (1.86 Mb)
  GNS Science, Reyes, A.G. 2007

Several essential government websites for doing your own research and understanding the “system”:

• Ministry of Economic Development – petroleum and mineral permits
• Taranaki Regional Council – resource consents issued
• Ministry for Environment – Resource Management Act
• Environmental Risk Management Authority (now EPA) – hazardous substances
• Maritime New Zealand – responding to spills and pollution
• Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2007

Some very relevant and useful links from other organizations and sites:

• Taranaki oil & gas wellsites and land farming sites
• Climate Justice Aotearoa
• Clean Country Coalition
• Frankly speaking: Did the minister lie to New Zealand?
• A link between heavy drilling and and illnesses? Doctors search for solid answers (USA)
• Impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and human health (EU)
• Fracking, shale gas and health: a case for precaution (Canada)
• Greenpeace New Zealand
• Natural Gas Extraction – Hydraulic Fracturing, EPA (USA)
• Frac Focus (USA)
• National Map of Fraccidents (USA)
• US Geological Survey FAQ – Earthquakes induced by fluid injection (USA)
• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (USA)
• Earthworks – Protecting communities and the environment (USA)
• Earth Justice: Find Your Way: A Citizen’s Tip Guide (USA)
• Climate Justice Kit (Australia)
• Climate Shifts (Australia)
• Transition Towns New Zealand

Check out these important documentaries / radio interviews  (more on Photo/Video page):

• Close Encounters’ with gas well pollution (9 mins): NPR radio, 15 May 2012
• 60 Minutes Meet the Frackers (21 mins): NZ Channel Three on 18 March 2012
• Fracking Ideas (52 mins): Radio NZ on 18 March 2012
• Rural Taranaki horrified by fracking (7.5 mins): 3 News coverage on 9 Feb 2012.
• The Gas Rush (43 min):  Australian ABC TV program Four Corners investigates the coal seam gas industry and the cost to farmers and the environment.
• The Coal Seam Gas Land Grab (13 min): Australian Channel Nine program 60 Minutes focusing on the threat of coal seam gas extraction to Queensland farmers.
• Gas trader quit because he can’t make 300% profit (25 min): a great talk show re the false economics of gas and fracking (USA)
• Talk by Prof. Avner Vengosh from Duke University re fracking and water contamination
• GasLand (trailer 3 min):  On hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the USA that has now been proven to cause major environmental problems notably contamination of drinking water and rivers.
• Fracking Hell – The Untold Story (17 min): An investigative report by Earth Focus and UK’s Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale.
• Split Estate (trailer 3 min):  An eye-opening examination of the consequences and conflicts that can arise between surface land owners in the western United States, and those who own and extract the energy and mineral rights below.
• The Pipe:  On a small Irish farming and fishing community resisting the construction of a major oil pipeline and processing plant in their territory.
• Secret of the Seven Sisters (1 of 4 episodes re the world’s 7 largest energy companies, each 60 minutes long)
• Economics of Fracking – Presentation by Deborah Rogers (USA 19 Jan 2012)
  

For a bit of fun / black humour, watch these:

• Safe fracking (USA, 23 Oct 2010)
• Stephen Colbert Skewers Talisman Energy Over Gas Fracking Coloring Book (USA, 12 July 2011)
• Clark and Dawe on the US oil spill (ABC TV, Australia 4 June 2010)
• A Concern for the Whale – Clarke and Dawe (ABC TV, Australia 24 June 2010)
• BP Oil Spill Spoof Parody Commercial Funny Gulf Coast Comedy (USA 18 July 2010)

Facebook groups you might want to join:

• Stop the Drilling in Taranaki
• NO Frack Taranaki
• Stop the Drilling on our East Coast
• No Mining Northland
• Stop Drilling for Oil off the coast of Opotiki
• Say No to Fracking in New Zealand
• Anadarko OUT of Otakou
• Save Otakou from Oil Drilling
• Say no to fracking and drilling South Island
• Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia)

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