RESEARCH PAPERS & STUDIES RELATED TO HYDROFRACKING
PSE STUDY CITATION DATABASE
on Shale Gas and Tight Oil Development
Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, and links to many of the
vetted scientific papers and other peer-reviewed journal articles:
http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1180
on Shale Gas and Tight Oil Development
Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, and links to many of the
vetted scientific papers and other peer-reviewed journal articles:
http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1180
EPA 2016 STUDY:
12/12/16: EPA's Study of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources: www.epa.gov/hfstudy
12/30/16: Triple Pundit: Meet the New EPA Fracking Report, Same as the OLD EPA Fracking Report: www.triplepundit.com/2016/12/meet-new-epa-fracking-report-old-epa-fracking-report/?utm_source=Daily+Email+List&utm_campaign=3d18a59f28-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9dedefcee3-3d18a59f28-220394449
12/13/16: AP News: EPA Fracking Report Offers Few Answers on Drinking Water: www.apnewsarchive.com/2016/The-Environmental-Protection-Agency-says-hydraulic-fracturing-to-drill-for-oil-and-natural-gas-poses-a-risk-to-drinking-water-in-some-circumstances/id-6c3c7c626c79497fa74f31f843a9a14b
May 2016: USGS Study: Wastewater disposal from unconventional oil and gas development degrades stream quality at a west virginia injection facility
3/29/16: Seismological Society of America: Fracking Linked to Most Induced Earthquakes in Western Canada: http://www.seismosoc.org/
MARCH 2016: The HARVARD STUDY ON METHANE:
GEOPHysical research letters: A large increase in u.s. methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL067987/abstract
The nation: April 11-18, 2016 issue (available on line 3/23/16): Global warming's terrifying new chemistry by bill mckibben: http://www.thenation.com/article/global-warming-terrifying-new-chemistry/
February 2016: Environmental Integrity Project: Fracking related industrial growth to boost greenhouse gas pollution by as much as 19 coal plants: http://environmentalintegrity.org/archives/8384
October 2015: The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate - Creating Jobs - Saving Money by Labor network for sustainability & Synapse Energy economics: http://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/new-report-protect-the-climate-save-money-and-create-jobs/
EPA:
6/5/15: EPA Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hfstudy/recordisplay.cfm?deid=244651
7/7/15: DCBureau: Peter Mantius: Frackers Use EPA Draft Water Report to Raise Doubts of Science: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hfstudy/recordisplay.cfm?deid=244651
6/18/15: Phys.Org: Oklahoma Earthquakes Linked to Oil and Gas Drill, Study Shows: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-oklahoma-earthquakes-linked-oil-gas.html
Harvard Business School pro-fracking report:
June 2015: America's Unconventional Energy Opportunity
http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/america-unconventional-energy-opportunity.pdf
North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center:
January 2015: GOING SOLAR IN AMERICA: http://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Going-Solar-in-America-Ranking-Solars-Value-to-Customers_FINAL1.pdf
1/14/15: Iodide, Bromide, and Ammonium inn Hydraulic Fracturing and Oil and Gas Wastewaters: Environmental Implications: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es504654n
December 2014: NYPIRG: Drilling Down: Local Fracking Decisions Highlight Failures in New York's Municipal Ethics Laws: http://www.nypirg.org/pubs/enviro/complete_drilling_down_3.pdf
PSE Healthy Energy:
12/10/14: Toward an Understanding of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Shale Gas Development: An Analysis of the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature, 2009-20014: http://psehealthyenergy.org/data/Database_Analysis_12_10.pdf
Concerned Health Professionals of NY:
July 2014: COMPENDIUM of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking: http://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CHPNY-Fracking-Compendium.pdf
October 2014: Post Carbon Institute: Shalebubble: Drilling Deeper: http://shalebubble.org/drilling-deeper/
Environment New York:
November 2014: Star Power: The Growing Role of Solar Energy in New York: http://environmentnewyork.org/sites/environment/files/reports/NY_Star_Power.pdf
November 2014: WASTE NOT: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry (report summary) by Sierra Club, Clean Air Task Force, NRDC: http://catf.us/resources/publications/files/WasteNot_Summary.pdf
Yale University Study:
September 2014: Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, PA: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307732/
Ohio State, Stanford, Dartmouth, University of Rochester, Duke Study:
9/12/14: Noble Gases Identify the Mechanisms of Fugitive Gas Contamination in Drinking-Water Wells Overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/12/1322107111
9/15/14: The Guardian: Drinking Water Contaminated by Shale Gas Boom in Texas and PA: Faulty natural gas well casings blamed in study for methane leakage in Barnett Shale and the Marcellus formation: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/drinking-water-contaminated-by-shale-gas-boom-in-texas-and-pennslyvania-study
9/15/14: The New York Times: Well leaks, Not Fracking, Are Linked to Fouled Water: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/study-points-to-well-leaks-not-fracking-for-water-contamination.html
August 2014: Earthworks: Up In Flames: US Shale Oil Boom Comes at Expense of Wasted Natural Gas, Increased co2: http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/Up-In-Flames_FINAL.pdf
June 2014: Risky Business: A Climate Risk Assessment for the United States: Henry Paulson, Michael Bloomberg and Thomas Steyer all back carbon tax): http://riskybusiness.org/uploads/files/RiskyBusiness_PrintedReport_FINAL_WEB_OPTIMIZED.pdf
6/2/14: EPA: Clean Power Plan Proposed Rule: http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/clean-power-plan-proposed-rule
5/15/14: Robert Howarth: A Bridge to Nowhere: Methane Emissions and the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Natural Gas: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.35/full
The White House Report on Climate Change:
National Climate Assessment: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/
5/8/14: The New York Times: Florida Finding Itself in Eye of Storm on Climate Change: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/us/florida-finds-itself-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-on-climate-change.html?hpw&rref=us
5/8/14: USA Today: Miami Is One of USA's Top Hot Spots for Climate Change: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/07/miami-south-florida-climate-hot-spots/8803849/
5/7/14: The New York Times: U.S Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/science/earth/climate-change-report.html
5/6/14: Democrat and Chronicle: Northeast Gets More Extreme Precip: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/05/06/white-house-climate-northeast-precipitation/8783535/
5/6/14: USA Today: Climate Change is here and Getting Worse: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/05/06/national-climate-assessment/8736743/
League of Women Voters Study:
4/10/14: League of Women Voters of NY: Resource Assessment of Potentially Producible Natural Gas Volumes From the Marcellus Shale, State of New York, by Arthur Berman and Lyndon Pittinger: http://www.lwvny.org/advocacy/natural-resources/hydrofracking/2014/Marcellus-Resource-Assessment-NY_0414pdf.pdf
4/22/14: WCNY Capital Pressroom: Susan Arbetter interviews Elisabeth Radow and Arthur Berman about League of Women Voters Study - begins in second half of show: http://www.wcny.org/cpr042214/
4/21/14: League of Women Voters of New York: Press Release for LWV Report on NY's Economically Recoverable Shale Gas: http://www.lwvny.org/advocacy/natural-resources/hydrofracking/2014/press_060211.pdf
UN Climate Change Report 2014:
April 2014: United Nations: Climate Change Report 2014: Impacts, Adaptations, and Vulnerability: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/
4/5/14: Washington Post: Opinion: The New IPCC Report Shows That Work to Limit Climate Change Must Begin Now: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-ipcc-report-shows-that-work-to-limit-climate-change-must-begin-now/2014/04/05/78372fe2-b922-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html
2/19/14: EcoNews: MSNBC: Rachel Maddow Devotes Large Portion of Show to Hazards of Fracking (see 2nd video): http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/19/rachel-maddow-hazards-of-fracking/
The Big Oil and Bad Air Study:
February 2014: Center for Public Integrity, Inside Climate News, The Weather Channel: Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie: http://stories.weather.com/fra
•2/27/14: Public Integrity: Natural Gas Boom Advances With Little Study of Public Health Effects, Report Finds:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/27/14302/natural-gas-boom-advances-little-study-public-health-effects-report-finds
•2/18/14: EcoWatch: Gripping Report and Film Reveal how Fracking Boom Destroys Texans' Lives:
http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/18/report-film-fracking-boom-destroys-texans-lives/
2/10/14: Environmental Science & Technology: Adgate, Goldstein & McKenzie: Potential Public Health Hazards, Exposure and Health Effects from Unconventional Natural Gas Development
2/5/14: The Guardian: Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies in America's Driest Areas, Report Shows:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas
February 2014: Ceres.org Report
Hydraulic Fracturing & Water Stress: Water Demand by Numbers
January 2014: BP Energy Outlook 2035 contains their projections of long-term energy trends and carbon emissions: http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-economics/energy-outlook/energy-outlook.html
January 2014: Common Cause: Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets in New York State: Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Expenditures by Fracking Interests to Influence Public Policy: http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/{FB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665}/Deep%20Drilling%20Deep%20Pockets%202014--Final%20Version.pdf
UM & USGS Study tracks health effects of Fracking Chemicals:
12/18/13: Columbia Daily Tribune [Missouri]: Group calls 'fracking' study 'inflammatory': http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/group-calls-fracking-study-inflammatory/article_af3715da-680e-11e3-b6ad-10604b9f6eda.html?comments=focus
12/17/13: RT NEWS: Fracking Chemicals Disrupt Human Hormone Functions, Study Claims: http://rt.com/usa/fracking-study-edc-endocrinology-391/
12/16/13: Endocrinology: Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Activities of HF Chemicals and Surface and Ground Water in a Drilling-Dense Region: http://endo.endojournals.org/content/early/2013/12/16/en.2013-1697.abstract?rss=1
2013: USGS: Occurrence of Methane in Groundwater of South-Central NYS, 2012: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5190/pdf/sir2013-5190.pdf
December 2013: Post Carbon Institute: David Hughes: Drilling CA: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale: http://www.postcarbon.org/reports/Drilling-California_FINAL.pdf
2013: CREW: Natural Cash: How the Fracking Industry Fuels Congress:
http://crew.3cdn.net/29e185cb94de445559_rom6b5st3.pdf
August 2012: Expanding the Shale Gas Infrastructure: http://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/cep/20120849.pdf
11/21/13: Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale Drilling: How and Why:
https://pennbpc.org/sites/pennbpc.org/files/MSSRC-Employment-Impact-11-21-2013.pdf
October 30, 2013: Downstream Strategies, San Jose State University for Earthworks Oil & Gas Accountability Project: Water Resource Reporting and Water Footprint from Marcellus Shale Development in W.V. and PA: /uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/report_10-30-13_marcellus_wv_pa.pdf
Fact Sheet for the Report: http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/SwitzerFact_Sheet_FINAL_10-28-13.pdf
The Duke Radioactivity Study:
10/9/13: Business Insider: Duke Study: Fracking is Leaving Radioactive Pollution in PA Rivers:
http://www.businessinsider.com/fracking-leaving-radioactive-pollution-in-pa-2013-10
10/2/13: Environmental Science & Technology: Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western PA: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es402165b?journalCode=esthag
10/2/13: Duke University Press Release: Radioactive Shale Gas Contaminants Found at Wastewater Discharge Site: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/radioactive-shale-gas-contaminants-found-at-wastewater-discharge-site
10/3/13: RT: 'Alarming' Presence of Radioactivity Found by PA Fracking Wastewater Study: http://rt.com/usa/fracking-radioactivity-contaminants-study-661/
10/2/13: Bloomberg Businessweek: Radiation in PA Creek Seen as Legacy of Fracking: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-02/radiation-in-pennsylvania-creek-seen-as-legacy-of-fracking-waste
The Methane Study:
9/16/13: The Leader [Corning]: Study: Methane Leaks from Gas Drilling Not Huge (note study was 90% funded by the industry): http://www.the-leader.com/article/20130916/NEWS/130919759
Responses to the Methane Study:
9/30/13: opednews.com: Much Ado About Nothing: EDF Fracking Study Misguided and Irrelevant: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Much-Ado-About-Nothing-ED-by-Jerry-Cope-Air-Pollution_Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Costs-130930-885.html
9/26/13: Environmental Defense Fund: EDF Reveals American Petroleum Institute's Disinformation Campaign: http://www.edf.org/media/edf-reveals-american-petroleum-institute’s-disinformation-campaign
9/18/13: DeSmogBlog.com: Steve Horn: Big Oil Pros, Lobbyists Dominate EDF Fracking Climate Study Steering Committee: http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/18/big-oil-pr-pros-lobbyists-edf-fracking-climate-study-steering-committee
9/16/13: PSE (Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy: Experts: Fracking Methane Leakage Study Financed by Gas Industry with Partner, EDF (Environmental Defense Fund) is Deeply Flawed: http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/events/view/176
9/16/13: Public Accountability Initiative: Conflicts of Interest in New Fracking Emissions Study: http://public-accountability.org/2013/09/conflicts-of-interest-in-new-fracking-emissions-study/
DUKE Methane Study:
6/25/13: Wall Street Journal: Well Sealing Cited in Leaks, Not Fracking: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323998604578567853193607238
6/24/13: USA Today: Fracking Linked to Well Water Methane: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/24/water-fracking-pennsylvania/2452023/
June 2013: Duke University: Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing: http://biology.duke.edu/jackson/pnas2011.pdf
May 2, 2013: Ceres: New Study: Hydraulic Fracturing Faces Growing Competition for Water Supplies in Water Stressed Regions: http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/new-study-hydraulic-fracturing-faces-growing-competition-for-water-supplies-in-water-stressed-regions
May 2013: Empire Center for NYS Policy: The Economic Effects of Hydrofracturing on Local Economies (a conservative think tank): http://www.scribd.com/doc/139740566/Economic-Growth
2/18/13: Energy Policy: Examining the Feasibility of Converting New York State's All-Purpose Energy Infrastructure to One Using Wind, Water, and Sunlight: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/NewYorkWWSEnPolicy.pdf
2/19/13: Deborah Rogers: Shale and Wall Street; Was the Decline in Natural Gas Prices Orchestrated? http://shalebubble.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/SWS-report-FINAL.pdf
2/19/13: Post Carbon Institute: Drill Baby Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance: http://www.postcarbon.org/drill-baby-drill/es
2/16/13: Report on Preliminary Investigation of Ground-Level Ambient Methane Levels in Manhattan: http://www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Manhattan-Prelim-report.pdf
11/29/12: Sierra Club: LOOK BEFORE THE LNG LEAP: Why Policymakers and the Public Need Fair Disclosure Before Exports of Fracked Gas Start:
http://www.sierraclub.org/naturalgas/downloads/LOOK-BEFORE-YOU-LEAP.pdf
2012: Control Risks: Jonathan Wood: The Global Anti-Fracking Movement: What it Wants, How It Operates and What's Next:
http://www.controlrisks.com/Oversized%20assets/shale_gas_whitepaper.pdf
11/14/12: Food and Water Watch: US Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Is a False Solution: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/us-energy-insecurity/
11/8/12: E. Evan White staff scientist for the National Council on Radiation Protection: Consideration of Radiation in Hazardous Waste Produced from Horizontal Hyrofracking:
http://www.slideshare.net/MarcellusDN/consideration-of-radiation-in-hazardous-waste-produced-from-horizontal-hydrofracking
10/18/12: Earthworks: Gas Patch Roulette: http://www.earthworksaction.org/library/detail/gas_patch_roulette_summary_report
10/5/12: US Govt. Accountability Office: Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Key Environmental and Public Health Requirements: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-874
10/4/12: USGS: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Ordovician Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin Province, 2012: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3116/FS12-3116.pdf
September 2012: Earthworks: Breaking All the Rules - The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulatory Enforcement: http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/oil_gas_enforcement
Fall 2012: Environment New York Research &Policy Center: The Costs of Fracking: The Price Tag of Dirty Drilling's Environmental Damage:
http://environmentnewyork.org/sites/environment/files/reports/The%20Costs%20of%20Fracking%20vNY.pdf
8/7/12: Shakeb Afsah and Kendyl Salcito: ShaleGas and the Fairy Tale of its CO2 Reductions: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/07/651821/shale-gas-and-the-fairy-tale-of-its-co2-reductions/?mobile=nc
8/6/12: Stony Brook News: Researchers Find Substantial Water Pollution Risks From "Fracking" To Recover Natural Gas:
http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Researchers_Find_Substantial_Water_Pollution_Risks_From_Fracking_To_Recover_Natural_Gas.shtml
The study itself: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcellusDN/paper-water-pollution-risk-associated-with-natural-gas-extraction-from-the-marcellus-shale
August 2, 2012: Sierra Club: Clean Energy Under Siege:
http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/downloads/SierraClub-CleanEnergyUnderSiege.pdf
August 2013: Univ. of Pittsburgh: Center for Healthy Environments and Communities: PREAT AIR: Hazardous Air Pollutants: http://www.heinz.org/UserFiles/Library/PRETA_HAPS.pdf
July 2012: Earthworks: Enforcement Report: NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development in New York:
http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/REPORT-NewYork-Enforcement.pdf
July 26, 2012: Harvard Magazine: Increased Risk of Ozone Loss Above United States: http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/07/ozone-destruction
July 2012: Natural Resources Defense Council: State Hydraulic Fracturing Discloure Rules and Enforcement: A Comparison: http://www.nrdc.org/energy/files/Fracking-Disclosure-IB.pdf
July 2012: Public Accountability Initiative: Contaminated Inquiry: How a University of Texas Fracking Study Led by a Gas Industry Insider Spun the Facts and Misled the Public:
http://public-accountability.org/wp-content/uploads/ContaminatedInquiry.pdf
May 2012: Environmental Advocates of NY: Out of Sight, Out of Mind:
http://www.eany.org/images/Reports/outofsight_finalweb.pdf
9/21/11: Pew Charitable Trust: From Barracks to the Battlefield: Clean Energy Innovation and America's Armed Forces: http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/reports/from-barracks-to-battlefield-clean-energy-innovation-and-americas-armed-forces-85899364060
Shale Resources and Society Institute - SUNY Buffalo: Environmental Impacts During Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies:
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/UBSRSI-Environmental%20Impact.pdf
Environmental Advocates of New York: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: New York's Failure to Track and Treat Fracking Waste Endangers Public Health & the Environment:
http://www.eany.org/images/Reports/outofsight_finalweb.pdf
2012: Pew Charitable Trust: Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race: http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Global_warming/G-20%20Report.pdf
Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians: Our Great Lakes Commons: A Peoples Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever: http://canadians.org/water/documents/greatlakes/GreatLakes-0311.pdf
Energy Institute (University of Texas at Austin): Separating Fact From Fiction in Shale Gas Development:
/uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/ei_shale_gas_reg_booklet1202.pdf
Food & Water Watch: FRACKING: THE NEW GLOBAL WATER CRISIS: March 2012:
http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/FrackingCrisisUS.pdf
New Solutions: Michelle Bamberger and Robert E. Oswald: Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health:
http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/data/Bamberger_Oswald_NS22_in_press.pdf
Environmental Protection Agency: Draft - Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming: 12/8/11:
http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/EPA_ReportOnPavillion_Dec-8-2011.pdf
Common Cause: Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets in Congress: 11/10/11:
http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/{fb3c17e2-cdd1-4df6-92be-bd4429893665}/DEEP%20DRILLING%20DEEP%20POCKETS%20NOV%202011.PDF
TDEX: Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective by Theo Colborn, et al: /uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/tdex-naturalgasoperationsfromapublichealthperspective.pdf
GUTHRIE: Local Experiences Related to the Marcellus Shale Industry, 5/10/11:
/uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/guthrie_pa_impacts_stateimpactpa-troy-community-hospital-report.pdf
Scientific American:
9/19/11: Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Natural Gas Fields
by Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz and ProPublica:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=science-lags-as-health-problems
Citizens Campaign for the Environment:
Finger Lakes Region Gas Lease Mapping Report http://www.citizenscampaign.org/PDFs/Finger%20Lakes%20Gas%20Lease%20Mapping%20Report%20-%20July%202011_Final_v3Lo-Res.pdfweeblylink_new_window
Protecting New York's Air, Land, Water and People: What's the Hydro-Fracking Rush? http://www.citizenscampaign.org/PDFs/cce_hvhf_wp_final.pdfweeblylink_new_window
Food & Water Watch:
The Case for a Ban on Gas Fracking
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/factsheet/the-case-for-a-ban-on-gas-fracking/weeblylink_new_window
TEDX: The Endocrine Disruption Exchange:
In-depth data on chemicals used in natural gas operations:
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.introduction.phpweeblylink_new_window
Penn State University: Energy Boomtowns and Natural Gas:
Research on socioeconomic impacts and implications for rural communities & local government:
http://nercrd.psu.edu/Publications/rdppapers/rdp43.pdfweeblylink_new_window
Duke University Study:
Methane Contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing:
http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/cgc/HydraulicFracturingWhitepaper2011.pdfweeblylink_new_window
Cornell University: How Should We Think About the Economic Consequences of Shale Gas Drilling: http://www.greenchoices.cornell.edu/downloads/development/marcellus/Marcellus_SC_NR.pdfweeblylink_new_window
http://www.greenchoices.cornell.edu/development/marcellus/policy.cfmweeblylink_new_window
March 2011: Cornell University: Methane and greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations:
http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/news/attachments/Howarth-EtAl-2011.pdfweeblylink_new_window
March 2010: Janette Barth: Unanswered Questions About the Economic Impact of Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shate: Don’t Jump to Conclusions:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7894576/Documents/Marcellus%20Shale%20Econ%20JMB.pdfweeblylink_new_window
December 2009: NYC Final Impact Assessment Report: Impact Assessment of Natural Gas Production in the NYC Water Supply Watershed: /uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/nyc_dep_final_assessment_report_2009.pdf
