Public Health Communiqué 2 – Time for health professionals to expose CSG risks to NSW Communities – July 2020
Public Health Communiqué 1 – Narrabri Gas Project – January 2020
A comprehensive Conference Reading List can be downloaded here – see below for full text and links.
NSW Health Submission to the Narrabri Gas Project EIS – Download PDF
Gunnedah Basin Health Impact Assessment Proposal – September 2014 – Download PDF
180717_Narrabri CCC HNE Health Presentation
Reading List
Speaker Publications – in order of appearance
Dr Geralyn McCarron
Air Pollution and human health hazards: a compilation of air toxins acknowledged by the gas industry in Queensland’s Darling Downs https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207233.2017.1413221
Unconventional natural gas development: economic salvation or looming public health disaster?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.12196
Symptomatology of a gas field http://www.ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Symptomatology-of-a-gas-field-An-independent-health-survey-in-the-Tara-rural-residential-estates-and-environs-April-2013.pdf
Queensland authorities urged to to act on health concerns about coal seam gas emissions https://croakey.org/queensland-authorities-urged-to-to-act-on-health-concerns-about-coal-seam-gas-emissions/
Mrs Shay Dougall
Information and Preparation for Landholders who may be approached by CSG Companies or may have infrastructure near by https://www.scribd.com/document/356498428/Landholders-Information-and-Preparation
Dr Methuen Morgan
Fracked: Coal seam gas extraction and farmers’ mental health https://www.academia.edu/25761834/Fracked_Coal_seam_gas_extraction_and_farmers_mental_health
Rural people’s responses to environmental stress http://ruralhealth.org.au/11nrhc/papers/11th%20NRHC%20Methuen_Morgan_KN17.pdf
Professor Melissa Haswell
Understanding and responding to the potential health and wellbeing risks associated with unconventional gas mining in Australia https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/understanding-and-responding-to-the-potential-health-and-wellbeing-risks-associated-with-unconventional-gas-mining-in-australia-professor-melissa-haswell.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Health concerns associated with unconventional gas mining in Western Australia: a critical review http://apo.org.au/node/74194
Health concerns associated with unconventional gas mining in rural Australia by Professor Melissa Haswell-Elkins and Anna Bethmont, MPH, Research and teaching support officer http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=3825
Dewhurst & Bibblewindi Expansion public meeting presentation http://ipcn.nsw.gov.au/resources/pac/media/files/pac/projects/2014/05/dewhurst-gas-exploration-and-pilot-expansion-project-ssd6038/public-meeting–presentations-tabled/42-dr-melissa-haswell–doctors-for-the-environmentpdf.pdf
Chief Scientist CSG report leaves health concerns unanswered by Drs Melissa Haswell & David Sherman https://theconversation.com/chief-scientist-csg-report-leaves-health-concerns-unanswered-32422
Haswell, Melissa – 1 August 2017 Darwin Hearing Submission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6kvLLuoSg; https://frackinginquiry.nt.gov.au/?a=446339
Government Publications
Coal seam gas in the Tara region: Department of Health Summary risk assessment of health complaints and environmental monitoring data – March 2013 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/428634/report.pdf (see paper under Queensland Experience critiquing the methodology used)
Farmer’s perceptions of coexistence between agriculture and large scale coal seam gas development https://gisera.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ag-Land-2-Working-Paper.pdf
GISERA: Human health and CSG development: a framework to investigate possible health effects https://gisera.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Human-health-and-CSG-development-a-framework-to-investigate-possible-health-effects.pdf
Gunnedah Basin Health Impact Assessment Proposal – September 2014 https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gunnedah-Basin-HIA-Proposal-March-2014.pdf
NSW Health Submission to the Narrabri gas Project EIS https://majorprojects.accelo.com/public/cce2964d6586f5c5b60b81117446aff9/State%20-%20NSW%20Health.pdf
Queensland Experience & Santos EIS Expert Submissions
A novel model to estimate the impact of Coal Seam Gas extraction on agro-economic returns https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/pub?pid=csiro:EP158398
CSG Health Impacts – Dr W Somerville http://www.ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CSG-Health-Impacts-Dr-W-Somerville.pdf
Hazards To Health (Chapter 26 from The Sacrifice Zone) https://vimeo.com/261660466
Hydraulic Fracturing in Coal Seam Gas Mining: The Risks to Our Health, Communities, Environment and Climate – Prepared by: Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith and Dr Rye Senjen http://ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/NTN-CSG-Report-Sep-2011.pdf
National Toxics Network Submission to the People’s Permanent Tribunal on Human Rights and Unconventional Gas February 2018 https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.peoplestribunalongas.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NTN-Testimony-CSG-HR-TRIBUNAL-FEB-18-.pdf&hl=en
National Toxics Network Submission – Dr Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith – info@ntn.org.au: Santos Narrabri Unconventional Gas Project http://www.ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NTN-UG-Sub-Santos-EIS-April-2017.pdf
NO CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH FOR CSG A Critique of the Queensland Department of Health’s Report on the Health Impacts of CSG Activities on the Tara Community http://www.ntn.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Critique-of-CSG-Health-Study-april20131.pdf
The Agri-Gas Fields of Australia: Black Soil, Food, and Unconventional Gas https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cuag.12004
The CSG arena: a critical review of unconventional gas developments and best-practice health impact assessment in Queensland, Australia https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A44399
Permanent Peoples Tribunal https://www.tribunalonfracking.org/what-is-the-permanent-peoples-tribunal/
Black lung – white lies – Inquiry into the re-identification of Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis in Queensland: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/tableOffice/TabledPapers/2017/5517T815.pdf
Overseas Experience
Associations of unconventional natural gas development with depression symptoms and disordered sleep in Pennsylvania https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29747-2
Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction) http://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Fracking_Science_Compendium_5FINAL.pdf
Dangerous Neighbors: Pipelines, Compressor Stations, and Environmental Injustice http://www.cwfnc.org/documents/Dangerous-Neighbors-Final-6-8-2016.pdf
GN’s Dr Brita Lundberg Gives State House Testimony on Health Concerns Around Gas Leaks https://www.greennewton.org/testimony-health-concerns-around-gas-infrastructure/
List of the Harmed https://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/
Neurodevelopmental and neurological effects of chemicals associated with unconventional oil and natural gas operations and their potential effects on infants and children https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320659218_Neurodevelopmental_and_neurological_effects_of_chemicals_associated_with_unconventional_oil_and_natural_gas_operations_and_their_potential_effects_on_infants_and_children
Santos Publications
Narrabri Gas Project EIS – Chaper 26 Social & Health https://majorprojects.accelo.com/public/b84a9a7d28ac65e412b846f645a44d25/Chapter%2026%20Social%20and%20health.pdf