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Here are some must-reads, must-sees, and must-hears:
* [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ "Gasland the Movie"]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/energy-department-panel-to-endorse-shale-gas-exploration/2011/08/10/gIQAXqbh7I_story.html "Washington Post: Obama Energy Department panel to endorse shale gas exploration"]
* [http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/briefs/pipe-dreams/ "Food and Water Watch: Pipe Dreams: What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know about Fracking and U.S. Energy Independence"]
* [http://www.ewg.org/release/scientists-protest-makeup-doe-natural-gas-panel "Environmental Working Group: Scientists Protest Makeup of DoE Natural Gas Panel"]
* [http://www.texassharon.com/2011/08/07/foreign-companies-own-us-shale-gas/ "Texas Sharon: Foreign companies own US shale gas"]
* [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-chesapeake-deals-idUSTRE77E4BT20110815 "Reuters: Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon cashes in on well deals"]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfFMcAznxAY "Countdown with Keith Olbermann -- Web Extra: Mark Ruffalo on Fracking"]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9P3VNV01.htm "AP: Big, new pipelines on tap for Pa., Marcellus Shale"]
* [http://www.propublica.org/article/natural-gas-drilling-debate-heats-up-read-our-guide/ "Best of ProPublica's Natural Gas Reporting"]
* [http://desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/ "DeSmogBlog Report - Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens our Water, Health, and Climate"]
* [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April11/GasDrillingDirtier.html/ "Natural gas from fracking could be 'dirtier' than coal, Cornell professors find"]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wenonah-hauter/fracking-oil-gas-industry_b_929170.html "7 Ways the Oil and Gas Industry is Buying Fracking Policy (and What You Can Do About It)"]
* [http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2011/07/31/sand-mining-surges-in-wisconsin/ "Wisconsin Watch: Sand mining surges in Wisconsin -- State feeds national fracking boom; health, environmental concerns rise"]
* [http://www.marcellusmoney.org/ "Marcellus Money Campaign Finance Database Compiled by Common Cause of Pennsylvania"]
* [http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/nyus_studio_20_releases_the_fracking_song_20110511/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Truthdig+Truthdig%3A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines/ "NYU Fracking Song - My Water's On Fire Tonight"]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/4/natural_gas_industry_attacks_oscar_nominated/ "Democracy Now! - Natural Gas Industry Attacks Oscar-Nominated Film ''Gasland'' for Chronicling Devastating Impact of Hydraulic Fracking - An Interview with Josh Fox"]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/39511093%2339511093#39511093/ "Rachel Maddow Interviews Mark Ruffalo on the Perils of Natural Gas Drilling"]
* [http://video.pbs.org/video/1576157257# "Actor Mark Ruffalo speaks out against fracking on PBS' 'Need to Know'"]
* [http://blip.tv/file/2381538/ "GRITtv: How 'Natural' Is Natural Gas?"], a Grit TV interview covering the harms caused by drilling for methane gas in [[Marcellus Shale]] region of the United States.
* [http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7Bfb3c17e2-cdd1-4df6-92be-bd4429893665%7D/MARCELLUSSHALESTUDY.PDF/ "Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets: The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania."]
* [http://www.un-naturalgas.org/ "Un-Natural Gas"], which notes among other things that there "is nothing natural about what the methane extraction process invented by Halliburton does to water, air, & living things."
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