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'''Energy in Depth''' (EID) is a pro-oil-and-gas drilling industry [[front group]] formed by the [[American Petroleum Institute]], the [[Independent Petroleum Association of America]] (IPAA) and dozens of additional industry organizations for the purpose of criticizing the documentary "Gaslands", attack grassroots opposition to fracking as part of a conspiracy, and denounce specific legislation, such as legislation proposed by Colorado U.S. Rep. [[Diana DeGette]] to regulate underground hydraulic fracturing fluids.
[[Hydraulic fracturing]] of underground geological formations, commonly called "fracking," was invented by the [[Halliburton]] Company. It is done to increase the amounts of oil and gas that can be extracted from existing wells. The companies that specialize in shale gas development have been the target of various investigations for tending to overstate the extent of their resserves.<ref name ="The Shale Game">[http://www.scribd.com/doc/88281876/The-Shale-Game-Frackonomics-5-0] </ref> Accordingly, EID was formed to counter critics of the industry'f financial and environmental practices. <ref name="ThinkProg">Alexandra Kougentakis, Brad Johnson [http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/12/frack-attack/ What The Frack? Gas Industry’s Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Demonizes Hydraulic Fracturing Bill], ''Think Progress''; The Wonk Room. June 12, 2009</ref>
Energy in Depth attempts to paint grassroots opposition to shale gas fracking as being part of a conspiracy of NGOs. How such a conspiracy applies to grassroots opposition in Quebec, Bulgaria, France and the UK is not clear - since the conspiracy theory of opposition exists primarily in Energy In Depth's Power Point presentation.<ref name ="Power Point Presentation"> Energy in Depth [http://www.scribd.com/doc/78189224/Energy-in-Depth-Frack-Talk] Houston conference, 2011</ref>
