Frack Off Marissa and Derek Smith and their kids from Pennsylvania cannot live a healthy life any longer. There are ten Hydraulic Fracking wells on their property; one in particular is hundred feet away from their home. From the fracking wells in nearly spitting distance of Marissa’s home, her family is getting sick and they are no longer able to swim, fish or play in the streams near their house. Five generations of their family have lived in the same house and swam, fished and played in the same streams. The family is no longer capable of those things because of Hydraulic fracking. Hydraulic Fracking or “fracking” is a process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas. Water, sand, and chemicals are injected into
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The fracking well needs up to 1.6 million gallons of water each time a well is drilled. Of the water, sand, and chemicals the gets pumped into the ground less than half comes back up, which means that whatever is left in the ground seeps into the water supply contaminating it. Lisa Song a Boston-based reporter for the Inside Climate News, announced, “…U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked fracking to contaminated groundwater in Pavilion, Wyoming” (Song). People from their water wells and faucets hear bubbles, hissing and gargling. The water tends to have a strong odor of gas and turpentine. Out of people’s faucets the water comes up yellowish, brown, and murky. People can light their water on fire while it is coming right out of the faucet because methane and other chemicals leaked inside the water supply. The water is unfit for consumption. People say water tastes metallically. Of the water that comes back up, the drilling industries illegally dump the toxic into fields and streams. Now people are unable to fish and swim in the streams and lakes. Dead fish and animals are found all along the banks of the
The fracking well needs up to 1.6 million gallons of water each time a well is drilled. Of the water, sand, and chemicals the gets pumped into the ground less than half comes back up, which means that whatever is left in the ground seeps into the water supply contaminating it. Lisa Song a Boston-based reporter for the Inside Climate News, announced, “…U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked fracking to contaminated groundwater in Pavilion, Wyoming” (Song). People from their water wells and faucets hear bubbles, hissing and gargling. The water tends to have a strong odor of gas and turpentine. Out of people’s faucets the water comes up yellowish, brown, and murky. People can light their water on fire while it is coming right out of the faucet because methane and other chemicals leaked inside the water supply. The water is unfit for consumption. People say water tastes metallically. Of the water that comes back up, the drilling industries illegally dump the toxic into fields and streams. Now people are unable to fish and swim in the streams and lakes. Dead fish and animals are found all along the banks of the