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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 supplies from drilling for methane gas, including ongoing efforts by shale oil and gas companies to using the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking"drilltechnique, baby, drill"--without adequate protections--, in the [[Marcellus Shale]] region of the Northeastern U.S. and other states across the country. </big>Here are some must-reads, must-sees, and must-hears:* [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ '''What is hydraulic fracturing or "Gasland the Moviefracking"] ?''' * [http://blipHydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a process used to extract deposits of gas and oil from shale.tv/file/2381538/ "GRITtv: How 'Natural' Is Natural Gas?"]After a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are injected under high pressures, a Grit TV interview covering which fractures the harms caused by drilling shale and allows for methane gas in [[Marcellus Shale]] region the release of the United Statesoil and gas.* [http://audio.wilknewsradio.com/m/audio/31630072/pa-state-senator-lisa-baker-on-marcellus-This is a new technique that allows access to shale-drllling.htm/ "PA State Senator Lisa Baker on Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling"]* [http://audio.wilknewsradio.com/m/audio/31826428/congressman-joe-sestak-on-marcellus-shale-gas-deposits that were previously inaccessible through conventional drilling.htm/ "Congressman Joe Sestak on Marcellus Shale Gas drilling"]* [http://audio.wilknewsradio.com/m/audio/31674477/nadia-steinzor-earthworks-marcellus-regional-manager.htm/ "Nadia Steinzor, Earthworks Marcellus Regional Manager on Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling"* [http://www.earthworksaction.org/pubs/OGAPMarcellusShaleReport-6-12-08.pdf Shale Gas: Focus on This practice has become highly controversial over the Marcellus Shale/ "Lisa Sumi past few years because of mounting evidence that it contaminates local water supplies and poses risks to the Oil health of local residents and Gas Accountability Project of Earthworks"].* [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."* [http://www.propublicaenvironment.org/article/natural-gas-drilling-debate-heats-up-read-our-guide/ "Best of ProPublica's Natural Gas Reporting"]</div>