{"id":142274,"date":"2014-11-28T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142274"},"modified":"2014-11-28T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:36:08","slug":"fracking-violation-basic-human-rights-argues-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/environmental-news\/fracking-violation-basic-human-rights-argues-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking a &#8216;Violation of Our Basic Human Rights&#8217;, Argues New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>RICHARD HEASMAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/UK%20HRIA%20w%20appdx-hi%20res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A hard hitting report<\/a> commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biancajagger.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation<\/a> was delivered this week to David Cameron and called on the government to investigate the impact of fracking on the rights of\u00a0individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The report cites human rights liabilities for the British government if fracking is to commence commercially across the <span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>. It was co-authored by the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment as well as the Environment and Human Rights Advisory and the Human Rights Consortium at the University of\u00a0London.<\/p>\n<p>It focuses primarily on the health implications of people living by frack sites, where the government is \u201clegally bound to respect and protect human rights, both under the auspices of its own Human Rights Act 1998 and of the European Convention on Human\u00a0Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under these acts, the <span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span> is obligated to consider the environmental impacts of industry on its citizens by allowing for public participation as well as the \u2018right to life\u2019, which protects citizens from living near dangerous and contaminated areas, including poisonous water\u00a0supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The report also highlights the government\u2019s concentrated efforts to sell the positives of fracking over a steady informative review, with consistent claims that burning shale gas produces fewer greenhouse emissions than burning\u00a0coal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2014\/11\/28\/fracking-violation-our-basic-human-rights-argues-new-report\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHARD HEASMAN A hard hitting report commissioned by the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation was delivered this week to David Cameron and called on the government to investigate the impact of fracking on the rights of\u00a0individuals. The report cites human rights liabilities for the British government if fracking is to commence commercially across the UK. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-environmental-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}