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{{#badges[[Category:Water]][[Category: WaterEnergy}}Energy]]<div style="font-size:120%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000000;"big>'''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 supply supplies from drilling for shale oil and gas using the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" technique, without adequate protections, in the environment from [[Marcellus Shale]] drilling for [[natural gas]], an online research project to which anyone can contributeregion of the Northeastern U.S. We need your help to uncover the oil and gas industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about other states across the industry through solid investigative journalism from organizations like Propublica and through scientific explorationcountry.</big>

Like [[Wikipedia]], the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, the Water Portal '''What is hydraulic fracturing or "fracking"?''' Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is also a collaborative project. We need you process used to help us search through the extract deposits of gas and oil industry documents and spin hidden online and enter information here about what you findfrom shale. We welcome participation from everyone: studentsAfter a well is drilled, journalistsmillions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are injected under high pressures, musicians, scientists, researchers which fractures the shale and allows for the release of the oil and just plain curious folksgas. Everyone This is invited a new technique that allows access to join in this project shale deposits that were previously inaccessible through conventional drilling. This practice has become highly controversial over the past few years because of mounting evidence that it contaminates local water supplies and poses risks to facilitate access to information the oil industry would rather information-seeking citizens not know, so welcome aboard!health of local residents and the environment.