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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 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.
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| + | <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 shale oil and gas using the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" technique, without adequate protections, in the [[Marcellus Shale]] region of the Northeastern U.S. and other states across the country.</big> |
| − | * [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ "Gasland the Movie"]
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| − | * [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"]
| + | '''What is hydraulic fracturing or "fracking"?''' |
| − | * [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"]
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| − | * [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"]
| + | Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a process used to extract deposits of gas and oil from shale. After a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are injected under high pressures, which fractures the shale and allows for the release of the oil and gas. This is a new technique that allows access to 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 the health of local residents and the environment. |
| − | * [http://www.ewg.org/release/scientists-protest-makeup-doe-natural-gas-panel "Environmental Working Group: Scientists Protest Makeup of DoE Natural Gas Panel"]
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| − | * [http://www.texassharon.com/2011/08/07/foreign-companies-own-us-shale-gas/ "Texas Sharon: Foreign companies own US shale gas"]
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| − | * [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-chesapeake-deals-idUSTRE77E4BT20110815 "Reuters: Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon cashes in on well deals"]
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| − | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfFMcAznxAY "Countdown with Keith Olbermann -- Web Extra: Mark Ruffalo on Fracking"]
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| − | * [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9P3VNV01.htm "AP: Big, new pipelines on tap for Pa., Marcellus Shale"]
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| − | * [http://www.propublica.org/article/natural-gas-drilling-debate-heats-up-read-our-guide/ "Best of ProPublica's Natural Gas Reporting"]
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| − | * [http://desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/ "DeSmogBlog Report - Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens our Water, Health, and Climate"]
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| − | * [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April11/GasDrillingDirtier.html/ "Natural gas from fracking could be 'dirtier' than coal, Cornell professors find"]
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| − | * [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)"]
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| − | * [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"]
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| − | * [http://www.marcellusmoney.org/ "Marcellus Money Campaign Finance Database Compiled by Common Cause of Pennsylvania"]
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| − | * [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"]
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| − | * [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."]
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| − | * [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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Latest revision as of 18:40, 22 June 2017
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 shale oil and gas using the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" technique, without adequate protections, in the Marcellus Shale region of the Northeastern U.S. and other states across the country.
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, millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are injected under high pressures, which fractures the shale and allows for the release of the oil and gas. This is a new technique that allows access to 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 the health of local residents and the environment.
