Portal:Water/Intro

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Welcome to the water initiative of the Center for Media and Democracy, which includes a special focus on the threats to our water supply and the environment from Marcellus Shale drilling for natural gas, an online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to uncover the oil and gas industry public relations and propaganda efforts with regards to the push for fracking from the northeastern corridor of the United States, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through solid investigative journalism from organizations like Propublica and through scientific exploration.

Map of Marcellus Shale Region

Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, the Water Portal is also a collaborative project that relies on citizen journalists and activists. We need you to help us search through the oil industry documents and spin hidden from the public and we need you to expose it by entering the information here about what you find. We welcome participation from everyone: students, journalists, , musicians, scientists, researchers 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!