Useful links | Fracking Free Ireland

European Parliament
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/en/headlines/

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?id=146&language=EN

Department of communications, energy and natural resources
http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/

Access to information on the Environment
http://www.environ.ie/en/AboutUs/AccesstoInformationontheEnvironment/

Living democracy
Peopel, Power, Participation and Change
Living Democracy is an online resource to encourage and support citizens to engage effectively with the decision-making system that affects their lives.
It is designed to help ordinary people to self-organise, realise their power and make change happen.
http://www.livingdemocracy.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

We the citizens
http://www.wethecitizens.ie/news/article/two_we_the_citizens_events_in_dublin

The foundation for the economics of sustainability
http://www.feasta.org/about/

FRACKING
The risks of fracking
http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/danger.html

Research
http://www.frackingresearch.org/

Natural Gas Watch – http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/
A website full of fracking info, leaks, strategy of companies etc.

Natural gas for Europe
http://naturalgasforeurope.com/ Various European countries

FracFocus, the hydraulic fracturing chemical registry website. http://fracfocus.org/

Information about the petroleum distillates used and regulations http://www.ewg.org/drillingaroundthelaw

EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
with regards to secrecy about chemicals used:
Pollution Release and Transfer Register (PRTR),
http://www.epa.ie/whatwedo/enforce/lic/prtr/prtrscope/

Green peace
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/The-Problem/fracking/

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Pro Publica Archive – News Coverage of Hydraulic Fracturing

ProPublica archive and latest news on hydraulic fracturing

Studies and Reports

Earthworks: Hydraulic Fracturing 101
Earthworks: The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exclusions and Exemptions to Major Environmental Statutes (PDF download)
Earthworks: Our Drinking Water at Risk: What EPA and the Oil and Gas Industry Don’t Want Us to Know About Hydraulic Fracturing
Earthworks: Health Survey Results of Current and Former Dish/Clark Texas Residents
Fordham Environmental Law Review: Untested Waters: The Rise of Hydraulic Fracturing in Oil and Gas Production and the Need to Revisit Regulation
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview (Includes a 45-minute video and summaries by state of health effects)
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective
National Resources Defense Council: Drilling Down: Protecting Western Communities from the Health and Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Production
The Earth Institute (Columbia University) Urban Design Lab: Hancock and the Marcellus Shale: Gas Extraction Along the Upper Delaware
New York City Department of Environmental Protection: Natural Gas Drilling in Marcellus Shale
New York City Department of Environmental Protection: Final Impact Assessment Report (PDF Download)
Riverkeeper Fractured Communities: Case Studies of the Environmental Impacts of Industrial Gas Drilling (PDF Download)

Other useful fracking links

Environmental Working Group on Fracking

Independent Petrolium Association of America

As Gas Drilling Spreads, Towns Stand Ground Over Control

Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush

EPA: Natural Gas Extraction – Hydraulic Fracturing

U.S. Geological Survey

America’s Natural Gas Alliance

Drilling Down Series

International platform (for petitions etc)
www.avaaz.org

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Unconventional gas extraction companies
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Tamboran – Australian based - operating in the North West Carboniferous http://www.tamboran.com/

Here you will find people connected with Tamboran, and DAVID ALAN FALVEY appointed as director on 3 Dec 2010
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/tamboran-resources-%28uk%29

Questions asked to Tony and Richard of Tamboran on 08.09.2011, Carrick on Shannon Tamboran meeting about SLR and CDM.
SLR is consulting company which does for Tamboran the Environmental Baseline Studies.-
http://www.slrconsulting.com/ http://www.slrconsulting.com/projects
CDM will be used by Tamboran.CDM does a mobile laboratory, which cleans salts out of fracking waters, so waters get reused. – http://www.cdm.com/

Lough Allen Natural Gas Company – operating in the Lough Allen area http://solocheck.eu/FreeIrishCompanyReport?companyNumber=485278&companyName=LOUGH+ALLEN+NATURAL+GAS+COMPANY+LIMITED

http://www.finaveragas.com/projects/lough

Enegi oil – operating in Clare basin http://www.enegioil.com/about-us/introduction
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/25549/europes-shale-gas-land-grab-reaches-ireland-25549.html

Cuadrilla, operating in the UK and the Netherlands (a.o.) http://www.cuadrillaresources.com/

Petroceltic with a head office in Dublin – http://www.petroceltic.com/

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Support for landowners – no house insurance in fracking area
http://www.earthworksaction.org/ccsupport.cfm

ENVIRONMENT
Environmental pillar of Social Partnership
Environmental Pillar members:An Taisce. Bat Conservation Ireland, BirdWatch Ireland. CELT – Centre for Ecological Living and Training. Coast Watch. Coomhola Salmon Trust. Crann. ECO UNESCO. Feasta. Forest Friends. Friends of the Earth. Global Action Plan Ireland, Gluaiseacht. Grian. Hedge Laying Association of Ireland. Irish Doctors Environment Association. Irish Natural Forestry Foundation. Irish Peatland Conservation Council. Irish Seal Sanctuary. Irish Seed Saver Association. Irish Whale and Dolphin Group. Irish Wildlife Trust. The Organic Centre. Sonairte. Sustainable Ireland Cooperative. VOICE. Zero Waste Alliance Ireland
http://environmentalpillar.ie/