Drawbacks Of Fracking

The job of fracking constitutes of gas being released to supply both Australia and overseas countries. Administrators and workers take this process seriously as every cubic foot of gas is measured and supplied. Although potential health problems have been recognized, the companies have been focusing on the collection grid and the and the shortage of regional community employees as only 2% of the workforce is applied for the job. Another economical factor is that Fracking is destroying jobs in other industries. These include manufacturing, tourism and agriculture as well as gas related fields. This caused a major problem in for farmers as they live on rent as well as the decrease of jobs is becoming difficult to maintain that wage. Furthermore, as the natural is supplied throughout the world, citizens must pay double or triple the prices in the upcoming years due to this fracking site.

Hydraulic Fracking is the act of shooting or drilling chemicals and liquids into the ground at a high speed in order to break the rocks and earth below. When you break the rocks, or fracture them, it releases the natural gas that is trapped inside. Fracking is a controversial topic, with benefits seen by some and devastating results seen by others. The state of Texas allows fracking, and it is a technique used all over the state. The Obama administration and the federal government believe that fracking can lead the country away from dependence on fossil fuels and into a new generation of clean energy. However, environmental agencies believe that fracking is just another energy source that is no better for the environment than coal, and leads to contaminated water. Fracking companies do not have to follow the Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974, whose purpose is to protect groundwater for the people.

In addition to the already lost list of carcinogenic chemicals, the flowback can bring heavy metals from 2 miles deep such as mercury, lead, uranium, and radium. There’s no way to look at this in a positive light. To add to the many vices of fracking is the fact that it’s extremely water intensive, which is a major concern in our drought-stricken state. It takes 8 MILLION GALLONS of water that we just don’t have to frack a well. Oil companies have already laid out plans for a potential of 25,000 wells throughout California. Since each well can be fracked an average of 18 times, we’re looking at water consumption upwards of 3.6 TRILLION GALLONS. This is completely unacceptable. On top of this, fracking releases large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. Methane is 82 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. In a time when climate change is an inevitable issue, this needs to be taken into

“I´m very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.”- Sen. Bernie Sanders. Although, fracking may seem safe, it really isn't. In fact, many have reported contaminated sources near fracking areas. However, living near a fracking well can cause a hard life in the household, that is near a site. Once again, problems arise as fracking becomes a common practice. Even though, there are advantages they are not reasonable. All in all, there are multiple reasons why fracking is not safe.

Fracking is a very debated topic around the world, whether we should continue fracking for the oil and gas it produces, or if the pollution caused by fracking is too much of problem. On the negative side of fracking, the effects from include: worsened asthma, stress, heavy pollution around the oil and gas sites, etc. If you look on the positive side of fracking you’ll find it is a way of producing oil and gas that could take America to the top in terms of energy export around the world, and it creates numerous jobs, which surely helps out the American economy.

Frack sites can break down and cause a bundle of problems. Communities with fracking have seen decline in property values, increases in crime, and losses in local tourism. When a community loses tourism and gains an increase in crime it may not be an area where a new company would want to settle, worsening the economy. Fracking is said to have caused earthquakes when a pipe ruptures. If a pipe ruptures it damage a fault line pushing one tectonic plate closer toward the earthquake point. If a storage tank for fracking breaks it may leak out into crops and streams and poison our ecosystem. If the fracking fluid does as much as decimates on of the species in the ecosystem, then it will put the whole ecosystem out of whack causing numerous problems.

Fracking is the process where pressurized water is injected into shale beds, or layers of sedimentary rock, which opens the rock to release oil and natural gas. Fracking is dangerous for many reasons, but one of the strongest affects it has is on our drinking water. Anywhere from 2 to 8 million gallons of water are used to frack only one well. Shockingly, just 10 percent of the water used returns to the surface. However, water isn’t the only thing being put in the ground- a “toxic stew” of chemicals and sand are also added. Over 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used every time we frack. The chemicals in the fracking mixture can make its way to our groundwater, harming the

Fracking, better known as hydraulic fracking has been around since 1949 (Global Energy Affairs), and has helped our economy in many different ways; such as, providing economic benefits, supporting the U.S. with more natural resources, and using safer drilling and production practices, and it is better for our environment. However, fracking can also be extremely terrible for our economy, such as; water droughts, health effects, and noise pollution. There are two sides to hydraulic fracking, and through resource I will form my opinion (Occupy Theory).

Fracking is the process of drilling a well ten thousand feet into the ground and putting chemicals in water and shooting the high pressure water into the rockbed, which extracts the gases.

fluid 8,000 feet into the ground to extract oil and natural gasses from shale plays. Although fracking has been around for nearly 60 years, the controversy surrounding it didn’t begin until approximately 2008, when oil and natural gas in the United States hit an all-time low. As a result, we depended heavily upon other countries like Saudi Arabia for our oil. The situation was less than ideal and the U.S. was seeking new ways to gain independence. On December 19, 2007 the Energy Independence and Security Act was signed into legislation thus, marking the beginning of the search for natural gas and oil in the United States otherwise known as the “Fracking

what this is talking about how fracking is good and bad.Toxic substances are in fracking fluid and waste-water as well as air pollution from trucks. equipment and the wells themselves along with an increasing number of CNG fueling stations opening throughout the country.Just as plants do today, those living millions of years ago converted the sun's light energy into food (chemical) energy through the process of photosynthesis. Natural gas is most widely used in the industrial and manufacturing sectors chemicals, metals, glass and food processing,among others with its use to heat and power our nation’s homes and businesses expanding rapidly. have been linked to a variety of negative health effects. although fracking creates jobs for people and

10. Living sustainably means that we live in way that doesn't jeopardize future generation’s resources.

Fracking is a safe way of producing oil and natural gasses. Some of the benefits of fracking are lower energy costs, because of the large deposits of oil and gas there has been a big increase in available resources and a big drop in prices. This can lead to a sustainable amount of savings for consumers. Another benefit of fracking is that consumers of energy are seeing economic change in global prices and lowered taxes on gas and oil. More jobs are being created and our reliability on other country’s oil is reduced significantly. For the most part, most of the fracking fluid stays in the ground but when it does come up, it’s either dumped in rivers and streams, left in open pits and contaminates our air, or it gets hauled away. The toxic fracking

Many see hydraulic fracturing or fracking as a good source of oil pumping but others see major problems with this process. Hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ is the process of oil and gas pumping using a water, sand and some chemicals to drill horizontally against rocks. The water and sands pressure is raised to a point of breaking or fracturing the rocks which then releases the oil and gases (Lallanilla). There are many pros and cons to this process of fracking. Some more than others.

But the demand for water used in fracking appears to be manageable in areas like Pennsylvania and Ohio where surface water, which is renewable, is used. In areas like West Texas where groundwater must be tapped, existing permitting schemes can be used to allocate scarce local water supplies. Ideally, increased recycling of fracking fluid will reduce the demand on water supplies nearly everywhere. In some regions of the country where fracking operations are taking place, there are concern that excessive extraction of surface water and groundwater will result in periods of water shortages that impact agricultural irrigation, drinking water wells, or surface water levels. Of perhaps equal concern are increasing groundwater withdrawals by agriculture resulting in the depletion of aquifer reservoirs. Fracking operations require 2-10 million gallons of water per well, per fracture (Boudet, 2014). This puts the local reservoirs in the danger zone and the people that rely on these groundwater resources in