Thursday, June 16, 2011

Environmental group starts website with information about the Marcellus Shale

The Pennsylvania Environmental Council unveiled "a new website aimed at organizing the avalanche of information on all things Marcellus Shale," the rock formation that is producing much natural gas with hydraulic fracturing, the council says in a press release.

MarcellusFacts continuously searches the Internet for new information on Marcellus Shale and presents it in an easy-to-read format. The site collects information from gas industry sources, nonprofit environmental organizations, Pennsylvania newspapers, Google News, universities, and the council's website. The goal is to present unedited information from all sides of the debate in a "clear and concise format for computers or smartphones," it says.
"There is so much information about Marcellus Shale in cyberspace that it has become very difficult to manage it all," Council President Paul King says. "Our goal in creating MarcellusFacts is to simplify the challenge of being well-informed on the issues and to make the people of Pennsylvania better participants in the public process."

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