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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 and the environment supplies from [[Marcellus Shale]] drilling for [[natural gas]], an online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to uncover the shale oil and gas industry [[public relations]] and [[propaganda]] efforts with regards to using the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" technique, without adequate protections, in the push for [[frackingMarcellus Shale]] from the northeastern corridor region of the [[United States]], Northeastern U.S. 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]]'''What is hydraulic fracturing or "fracking"?''' Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a process used to extract deposits of gas and oil from shale. After a well is drilled, the collaborativemillions of gallons of water, online, free encyclopediasand and chemicals are injected under high pressures, which fractures the shale and allows for the release of the Water Portal oil and gas. This is also a collaborative project new technique that relies on citizen journalists and activists. We need you allows access to help us search shale deposits that were previously inaccessible through conventional drilling. This practice has become highly controversial over the oil industry documents and spin hidden from the public past few years because of mounting evidence that it contaminates local water supplies and we need you poses risks to expose it by entering the information here about what you find. We welcome participation from everyone: students, journalists, , musicians, scientists, researchers health of local residents and just plain curious folks. Everyone is invited to join in this project to facilitate access to information the oil industry would rather information-seeking citizens not know, so welcome aboard!<br>[[Image:Marcellus_shale_mapenvironment.gif]]