Presentation to the Rights of Nature TribunalLima, Peru, December 2014By Shannon Biggs, Director, Movement Rightsshannon@movementrights.org

HYDRAULIC FRACKING: VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF NATURE

Before & After: Fracking is a RAPE of Nature

THIS IS THE FACE OF FRACKING WORLDWIDE

WHAT IS FRACKING?

How its done and its history

• Shale: 400 million years in the making• 1940s Discovery: “trapped” Oil & Gas lie 2 miles underground• Early fracking was different, rarely used•2003: Halliburton technology makes shale accessible• 2004-2005: Bush/Cheney & the EPA "Halliburton Loophole”

Paved way for massive boom

many states: unregulated, unmonitored

CURRENT GLOBAL FRACKING BOOM

TextFracking In the US

OVERVIEW OF U.S. FRACKING BOOM• Current Production: 300,000 barrels of Natural Gas per day, Oil at a 25 year high (set to double in 5-10 years)

•800,000 active gas and oil wells (as many as 1,000,000 by 2015)

• Damages to the rights of ecosystems, human rights, health, climate, air, future generations, communities & way of life, food systems, prosperity, democracy

• To blame: Federal and State Government and agencies & thousands of corporations

WHERE IS FRACKING?• Unike Most Industrial Activities Fracking Place EVERYWHERE

-200 feeet from homes and schools- On your front yard:- On Federal Land- Urban and rural areas- farms, ranches, offshore

MINERAL ESTATE: WHEN AN OIL COMPANY BUILDS A WELL PAD (WHICH CAN RANGE IN SIZE FROM SEVEN TO 10 ACRES), FARMERS AND RANCHERS LOSE THE USE OF THAT LAND. THERE IS NO COMPENSATION FOR LOSING THE USE OF LAND ADJACENT TO THE WELL PAD.

SECRET SAUCE: WATER, SILICA/SAND, CHEMICALS

• I T TA K E S 4 0 0 TA N K E R T R U C K S T O C A R RY W AT E R A N D S U P P L I E S T O A N D F R O M W E L L P A D S

• I N 2 0 1 2 , T H E U S P R O D U C E D 2 8 0 B I L L I O N G A L L O N S O F W A S T E W AT E R

• N AT I O N A L LY , F R A C K I N G U S E S O V E R 1 0 0 T R I L L I O N G A L L O N S O F W AT E R A N D 4 0 0 B I L L I O N G A L L O N S O F “ F R A C K F L U I D ” C O M P R I S E D O F U P T O 6 0 0 C H E M I C A L S

• T OX I C A D D I T I V E S I N C L U D E : K E R O S E N E , B E N Z E N E , T O L U L E N E , X Y L E N E , A N D F O R M A L D E H Y D E

• 3 3 0 T O N S O F C H E M I C A L S P E R F R A C K I N G O P E R AT I O N — 2 / 3 O F T H E T OX I C C H E M I C A L S R E M A I N U N D E R G R O U N D .

• I N N M A L O N E , W A S T E P I T S H A V E C O N TA M I N AT E D G R O U N D W AT E R 4 0 0 T I M E S

FRACCIDENTS

FRACK WASTE WATER• L E F T I N O P E N A I R P O N D S

• P R O D U C E S V O L AT I L E O R G A N I C C O M P O U N D ( V O C S )

• T H O U S A N D S O F P O N D S W A S H E D A W AY D U R I N G S T O R M S

• T OX I C W A S T E W AT E R C A N N O T B E T R E AT E D . I T I S L O S T.

VIOLATION: CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY• V O C S C A U S E A S T H M A , C A N C E R , A N D

S E V E R E I L L N E S S .

•   I N U I N TA ( U TA H ) , W E L L S W E R E E S T I M AT E D T O B E L E A K I N G 6 0 T O N S O F M E T H A N E P E R H O U R.

• F RA C K I N G I S # 2 S O U RC E O F G R E E N H O U S E G A S E S :

• From 2005-2012 100 M metric tons of of Methan

• (25 x worse than Co2)

VIOLATION: WATER

VIOLATION: FRACKING CAUSES EARTHQUAKES• G E O T H E R M I C R E S E A RC H J O U R N A L

S T U DY: 2 0 1 1 O H I O T R E M O R S C A U S E D BY S P E N T F RA C K I N G M AT E R I A L S I N J E C T E D D E E P U N D E R G R O U N D

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE BAKKEN: FORT BERTHOLD,ND

• $100M Oil Boom, not for residents• Crumbling Infrastructure, deaths from trucks• Soaring Crime Rates, rapes, gun sales •Frack boom towns, man camps of 10,000• Rich in Oil, 100 M cubic Feet gas flared away DAILY

- (500,000 homes worth of heating)-2 M tons CO2 = 385,000 cars

•From quiet ag state to industrial powerhouse 660,000 barrels/day

• Alternatives: WIND 1.2 trillion homes or 14,000 x state electricity use

ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS VS POVERTY RELIEF

“ I E X P E C T T O L I V E H E R E A L L M Y L I F E , A N D I H A V E A C O M M I T M E N T T O T H I S L A N D T H AT W A S M Y F O L K S ’ L A N D . I H A V E A N O B L I G AT I O N T O P R O T E C T I T, N O T O N LY F O R M E , B U T F O R T H E F A M I L I E S T H AT C O M E A F T E R .” B I R D B E A R

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RIGHTS OF NATURE LAWS PROTECT MOTHER EARTH FROM FRACKING.

2 2 U S C O M M U N I T I E S I N 7 S T A T E S

C A P A , N Y , M D , C O , N M , O H H A V E B A N N E D F R A C K I N G B Y R E C O G N I Z I N G R I G H T F O R C O M M U N I T I E S A N D N A T U R E . W E C A N S T A N D T O G E T H E R G L O B A L LY F O R M O T H E R E A R T H

Fracking is Clear Violation of the Rights of Mother Earth. We violate natures laws at our own peril. We do not have the moral authority to rape the Earth in this way. Fracking can not be done safely, and we must transform our human laws to allign with nature's laws that govern our wellbeing. It is time to stand for the Rights of Nature.