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 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.

Here are some must-reads, must-sees, and must-hears:

• "Gasland the Movie"
• "Washington Post: Obama Energy Department panel to endorse shale gas exploration"
• "Food and Water Watch: Pipe Dreams: What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know about Fracking and U.S. Energy Independence"
• "Environmental Working Group: Scientists Protest Makeup of DoE Natural Gas Panel"
• "Texas Sharon: Foreign companies own US shale gas"
• "Reuters: Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon cashes in on well deals"
• "Countdown with Keith Olbermann -- Web Extra: Mark Ruffalo on Fracking"
• "AP: Big, new pipelines on tap for Pa., Marcellus Shale"
• "Best of ProPublica's Natural Gas Reporting"
• "DeSmogBlog Report - Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens our Water, Health, and Climate"
• "Natural gas from fracking could be 'dirtier' than coal, Cornell professors find"
• "7 Ways the Oil and Gas Industry is Buying Fracking Policy (and What You Can Do About It)"
• "Wisconsin Watch: Sand mining surges in Wisconsin -- State feeds national fracking boom; health, environmental concerns rise"
• "Marcellus Money Campaign Finance Database Compiled by Common Cause of Pennsylvania"
• "Democracy Now! - Natural Gas Industry Attacks Oscar-Nominated Film Gasland for Chronicling Devastating Impact of Hydraulic Fracking - An Interview with Josh Fox"
• "Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets: The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania."
• "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."