Index of Publications - free downloads

The following links take you to selected downloadable documents and videos about environmental activism and the gasfield threat to rural Australia.

On Unconventional Gas

NEW ESSAY - 5 Years after the Bentley Blockade

Protecting the Northern Rivers

from Damaging Development

Submissions

From Dr Wayne Somerville

• Initial Comments to NSW Government's CSG Inquiry (2011) PDF

• The Assessment of CSG Fugitive Methane Emissions (2012) PDF

• 1st Submission to NSW Chief Scientist’s CSG Review (2013) PDF

• 2nd Submission to NSW Chief Scientist’s CSG Review (2013) PDF

• UN Tribunal on Fracking - The Mental Health Impacts of CSG Mining (Jan 2018) PDF

• Testimony to the UN Tribunal on Fracking (2018)      YouTube Video

                         

Reports & Papers

By Dr Wayne Somerville

• A Guide to Gas Company Metgasco's Propaganda (2012) PDF

• Why Have NSW Liberals Adopted Socialist CSG Policies (2012) PDF

• CSG Health Impacts & Risk-management Tools (2013) PDF

• Notes on the Psychological Impacts of the Glenugie Blockade (2013) PDF

• Is CSG Safe - A failed debate with a gas company executive (2014) PDF

• How Could CSG Air Pollution in the Darling Downs be an Acceptable Risk (2015) PDF

• Is Unconventional Gas a Boon or a Blight - An email debate with a politician (2015) PDF

• Dr Wayne’s Guide to Industry Propaganda (2018) YouTube Video

                       

• Somerville, W. et al CSG - What are the health risks? (2018) Brendan Shoebridge Video

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Speeches

By Dr Wayne Somerville

• Gunnedah Town Hall (2011) PDF

• Kyogle CSG Rally (2011) PDF

• Richmond Valley Group Against Gas (Nov 2011) PDF

• Rock Valley Gas Rangers (2011) PDF

• Lismore Workers’ Club (2012) PDF

• Lismore Workers' Club (2012) VIDEO

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• Ballina (2012) YouTube VIDEO

                                             

• Lismore Workers’ Club (2014) PDF

• Bentley Gasfield Free Declaration Day (2014) PDF

• Bentley Gasfield Free Declaration Day (2014) VIDEO

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Letters

By Dr Wayne Somerville

• Open letter to Premier O’Farrell (2012) PDF

• Metgasco & Bentley: The untold story (2014) - Letter to editor PDF

• Response to Mr Henderson’s 24 Mar 2014 - Letter to ministers (2014) PDF

• What lies ahead at Bentley - Letter to editor (2014) PDF

• Response to Chief Scientist Dr A Finkel’s comments (2018) PDF

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Poetry

• ‘Watts, T.’ The Crime of the Ancient Gas Fracker (2015) PDF

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