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{{#badges: WaterEnergy}}<div style="font-size:120%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000000;">'''Welcome to the water initiative of the Center for Media and Democracy,''' which includes a special focus on the threats to our rivers, watersheds, and fresh water supplies from drilling for methane shale oil and gas, including ongoing efforts by oil and gas companies to "drill, baby, drill"--without adequate protections--in the [[Marcellus Shale]] region of the Northeastern U.S. and other states across the country. Here are some must-reads, must-sees, and must-hears:* [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ "Gasland the Movie"] * [http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2893&from=rss_home "USGS Releases New Assessment of Gas Resources in the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin"]* [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.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.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."</div>