Documents

Bibliography

CHRE. UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Hydraulic Fracking
– Full Publication: Fracking and UNGPs – Draft 2 – September 29 2015
– Annex to report: Fracking and UNGPs – Draft 2 – September 29 2015.2
– Summary version: Fracking and UNGPs – Draft 2 – September 29 2015 – short version

The Climate Principles. Shale Gas Exploration and Production: Key Issues and Responsible Business Practices. Guidance Note for Financiers. 2013

Colburn, C. Kwiattokski, K. Schultz & M. Bachran. Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective. In Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 17:1039-1056. 2011

Dusseault et.al. Towards a Road Map for Mitigating the Rates and Occurrences of Long-Term Wellbore Leakage. University of Waterloo & Geofirma Engineering Ltd. May 2014

Dutzik, et.al. Who Pays for the Cost of Fracking? Environment America. 2013.

Equitable Origin. EO100tm. Standard Technical Addendum. EO100.1: Shale Oil and Gas Operations. (Public Draft 2015)

EHRA. Environment and Human Rights Advisory. A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas. 2011.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources. June 2015

Grear, E. Grant, T. Kerns, K. Morrow and D. Short. A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing and other Unconventional Gas Development in the United Kingdom. October 2014

Hammer and J. VanBriesen. In Fracking’s Wake: New Rules are Needed to Protect our Health and Environment from Contaminated Wastewater. May 2012.

Hansen. Transport, Storage, and Disposal of Fracking Waste. OLR Research Report.

Ingraffea. Fluid Migration Mechanisms Due to Faulty Well Design and/or Construction: An Overview and Recent Experiences in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Play. PSE. 2012.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and Investor Environmental Health Network. Extracting the Facts: An Investor Guide to Disclosing Risks from Hydraulic Fracturing Operations. 2012.

International Council on Human Rights Policy. Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide. 2008

Jackson. The Integrity of Oil and Gas Wells. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PNAS Vol. 111 no.30. 2014.

Kang. CO2, Methane, and Brine Leakage Through Subsurface Pathways: Exploring Modeling, Measurement, and Policy Options. Princeton University. 2014

Karion, et.al. Methane emissions estimates from airborne measurements over a western United States natural gas field. In Geophysical Research Letters, an AGU Journal. 2013.

Llewellyn et.al. Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributes to Marcellus Shale gas development. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. May 2015.

McKenzie, R. Witter, L. Newman, J. Adgate. Human health risk assessment of air emissions from development of unconventional natural gas resources. In Science of the Total Environment. 2012.

Mercy International Association. A Guide To Rights-Based Advocacy: International Human Rights Law and Fracking.

Ridlington, J. Rumpler. Fracking by the Numbers: Key Impacts of Dirty Drilling at the State and National Level. Environment America. 2013

Shift & Mazars. UN Guiding Principles: Reporting Framework with Implementation Guidance. 2015

Short et.al. Extreme energy, “fracking” and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments? The Journal of Human Rights. 2015

Srebotnjak and M. Rotkin. Fracking Fumes: Air Pollution from Hydraulic Fracturing Threatens Public Health and Communities. Natural Resources Defense Council. 2014

Taillant, A. Roeloffs, C. Headen. Fracking Argentina: Informe Técnico y Legal sobre la Fracturación Hidráulica en Argentina. Center for Human Rights and Environment. 2013.

UNANIMA. Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas: A new threat to human rights. 2011.

UNEP. Can we safely squeeze the rocks? UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS). November 2012

US Department of Energy (DOE). Modern Shale Gas Development in the United States: A Primer. 2009

Vidic. et. al. Impact of Shale Gas Development on Regional Water Quality.
(or http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1235009)

Warner et.al. Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania. In American Chemical Society.

Watson. Surface casing vent flow repair: a process. Paper presented at the Petroleum Society’s 5th Canadian International Petroleum Conference. Calgary, Alberta. 2004.

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