Quick links
International Groups & UK Networks
- Anti Fracking International
- Ban Fracking Fermanagh (Ireland)
- Britain & Ireland Frack Free
- Cheshire and Wirral Action on Fracking
- Clean Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)
- CSG Free Northern Rivers (Australia)
- Don't Frack Prince Edward Island (Canada)
- Expats support Anti-Fracking in the UK
- Farmers Against Fracking (US)
- Frack Free East Anglia
- Frack Free Families
- Frack Free Food Alliance
- Frack Free Lancashire
- Frack Free Sussex
- Frack Free Wales
- Frack Off Pungesti (Romania)
- Frack Off Scotland
- Fracking Free Ireland
- Fracking Free Staffordshire
- Gasfield Free Byron Shire (Australia)
- Gegen Gasbohren… (Germany)
- Good Energy Alliance (Ireland)
- Keep East Lancashire Frack Free – KELFF
- Knitting Nannas (Lancashire)
- Lock The Gate (Australia)
- Love Leitrim (Ireland)
- Lubicon Lake Nation (North-central Alberta)
- Marcellus Protest (US)
- N.E.Wales Anti-Fracking Action Network
- No a la Fractura Hidráulica en Cantábria (Spain)
- No Fracking Ireland
- No Fracking Northern Ireland
- Non à l'exploitation du gaz de schiste en Algérie
- North East Extreme Energy Awareness Group
- Schiste Happens (France)
- Shale Gas Research Ireland
- Sligo Fracking Concerned (Ireland)
- Stop Arkansas Fracking (US)
- Stop Fracking Ontario (Canada)
- Stop Pilliga Coal Seam Gas (Australia)
- Stop The Drill (Ireland)
- Stuttgart gegen Erdgasfracking am Bodensee (Germany)
- Tamilians Against Fracking (India)
- Treasure The Karoo (South Africa)
- Weald Action Group (South East England)
- What the frack? (Ireland)
Reference Websites
- Anti Fracking Songs Archive
- Catskill Citizens – "Learn More" link archive
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Fracking: Implications for Human and Environmental Health
- Concerned Health Professionals of New York – Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms Of Fracking
- Dutch Earthquakes Linked to Natural Gas Extraction (in Dutch)
- Earth Justice – Fraccidents in U.S
- EPA – Chronology of Groundwater Investigation/Cover-Up at Pavillion Wyoming
- Frac Focus – US Chemical Disclosure Registry
Industry funded, voluntary, allows for unchallenged and extremely broad disclosure exemptions made at company’s discretion.
- FRAW – Sheet E11 Fracking and Coalbed Methane: Unconventional gas in the UK
- Keep Tap Water Safe – List of Worldwide Bans
- New York Times – Articles in the Drilling Down series
- New York Times – Leaked Industry E-Mails and Reports
- New York Times – Thousands of internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency, State Regulators and Drillers
- Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner’s Advice: Buy Earthquake Coverage
- Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air – List of the Harmed
An ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking in the US.
- Physicians, Scientists & Engineers – Citation Database on Shale Gas & Tight Oil Development
This database is a near exhaustive and evolving list of the peer-reviewed literature that directly pertains to shale gas and tight oil development.
- Rolling Stone – Gasland report on gas leakage
- Schlumberger – Oilfield Glossary
- Shale Gas Bubble: Insiders Suggest Fracking Boom Is a Bust
- shalebubble.org
- Shalefield Stories
Personal and collected testimonies of those who have been harmed in the mad rush to frack in the US.
- The Weather Channel – Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale
- US EIA – Drilling Productivity Report
- US EIA – Short-Term Energy & Winter Fuels Outlook
- Wikipedia – Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracking
- Wikipedia – Hydraulic Fracturing
UK Geology & Licensing
- British Geological Survey – Blackpool earthquake, Magnitude 1.5, 27 May 2011
- British Geological Survey – Blackpool earthquake, Magnitude 2.3, 1 April 2011
- British Geological Survey – Jurassic Shale Of The Wessex Area: Resource Estimation Report
- British Geological Survey – The Carboniferous Shales Of The Midland Valley Of Scotland: Geology And Resource Estimation
- British Geological Survey – The Jurassic Shales Of The Weald Basin : Geology And Shale Oil And Shale Gas Resource Estimation
- Department of Energy and Climate Change – Oil and gas licensing rounds
- Department of Energy and Climate Change – The Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources Of Britain’s Onshore Basins – Coalbed Methane (CBM) 2014
- Department of Energy and Climate Change – The Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources Of Britain’s Onshore Basins – Shale Gas 2013
- The Coal Authority – Licence areas current and future
- The Oil & Gas Authority – Shows current and proposed licence areas, wells and shale areas
- UK Onshore Geophysical Library – Shows onshore oil & gas activity including wells and seismic surveys
UK Government
- Department of Energy and Climate Change – The difference between Preese Hall and Wytch Farm
- Energy and Climate Change Committee – Shale Gas Report, Vol 1
- Energy and Climate Change Committee – Shale Gas Report, Vol 2
- Environmental Audit Committee – Environmental Risks of Fracking
- George Osborne demands rapid progress on fracking – Full Letter
- Letters revealing lack of fracking regulation in the UK
- Public cost of decommissioning oil and gas infrastructure
The Department has a worrying lack of understanding of the potential for government liabilities to decommission assets used in fracking.
- Rural Community Policy Unit – Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts (heavily redacted)
- UK Government Rejects UCG – Atkins report for DECC finds that emissions from the process would be significantly higher than other sources of gas
Legal Resources
- Briefing Note – Fracking & Individual Rights: What do you need to know?
- An Objector’s Guide to Fracking: The Planning System and High Court Challenges
- Guides on Policing and the Law for Campaigners Against Fracking
- Green & Black Cross
- Activists Legal Project
