New report “A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing and Other Unconventional Gas Development in the United Kingdom” was released in the UK on Friday. Commissioned by the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation and Co-authored by the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, Environment and Human Rights Advisory, and the Human Rights Consortium at the University of London the Report is “a preliminary account of the human rights implications of fracking” in the UK and argues that, due to a range of potentially adverse and serious impacts on human health and the environment, “the UK Government has a clear and urgent duty to fully investigate the human rights implications of fracking before authorising any exploratory or extractive fracking operations.” The report “strongly recommends a moratorium on the conduct of fracking operations until such a time as a full, industry-independent, publicly funded Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) has been properly undertaken and placed in the public domain.” Full report available here extremeenergy.org/2014/10/30/full-report-a-human-rights-assessment-of-hydraulic-fracturing-and-other-unconventional-gas-development-in-the-united-kingdom/
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 07:42:19 +0000
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