Water-free fracking could also solve other problems. In conventional fracking, half the water pumped into a well flows back to the surface, but the other half stays in the rock formation. The water that’s left behind can block the path of the natural gas, slowing down production and possibly decreasing the total amount a well can produce over its lifetime, Dilmore…
Hydraulic fracturing is the process used to fracture shale rock deposits, allowing the extraction oil and natural gas from deep below the earth’s surface. The drilling and fracturing process produces large amounts of contaminated wastewater that is pressurized and forced back into the ground deep below the earth’s surface. Over the last several years there have been many debates over the dangers of “Fracking” and the economic impact. There are a lot of concerns from environmental groups and concerned citizens, not only with the drilling and fracturing process, but with the excessive amounts of fresh water wasted in the process and the disposal of wastewater after the drilling is complete. Hydraulic fracturing poses many dangers to the earth…
Some say it dumps chemicals into the ground water supply and other argue it causes earthquakes, and still other think it can revolutionize American energy industry. Some part of fracking is considerably good. For example with fracking the U.S can access more gas and oil without depending on foreign oil. As the world’s supplies of these resources continue to dwindle, finding new methods to obtain additional oil and gas becomes more and more important. Improved air quality by using natural gas to generate electrically instead of using coal.…
Many argue natural gas is a clean fossil fuel and fracking is a benefit to the economy, but it is safer and smarter to spend time developing technologies in other renewable resources because of the problems that accompany fracking. The process of…
Herrmann 1 Emily Herrmann Hepting AP Lang P.5 14 April 2016 How to Stop Our Fracking Problems For more than 60 years the United States and the world have been fracking. We have been fracking so much that the world production of shale beds has gone up from one percent to twenty-five percent. Fracking is a process that involves the releasing of oil and gas from underground formations that are otherwise to difficult to mine.…
Fracking, the informal name for hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting natural gas from the earth. In this process, a well is drilled deep into the earth to reach shale. Once it hit this level, the well takes a ninety-degree turn and runs through the layer. Water with other dissolved chemicals is pressurized and sent down the well to create cracks in the shale. This solution helps absorb the gas and is subsequently pumped back up the well to the surface (NYTimes).…
According to the Energy From Shale Organization website, “fracking supports 2.1 million American jobs and promises more energy-secur[ity] for [the] country… and will save the average American household $3,500 per year by 2025”. Moving oil production from foreign to domestic also lowers gas prices nationally, which is beneficial for the public. In fact a statistic from the Energy From Shale Organization says the fracking has already saved Americans money, “through lower gas prices estimated at $1,200 per household in 2012”. Economic gains aside, the entire world runs on oil and natural gas, without these two key components nothing could have possibly been accomplished. There would have been no industrial or technological revolutions.…
Hydraulic fracking has positive impact on the economy. Natural gas that is fracked out of the ground in the U.S is used to make many things like steel, glass and many other things. We can make more of these products because we have a bountiful supply of gas. The fracking is opening up thousand of solid jobs with very good salaries. Many communities came back to life and steel, lumber, concrete, and construction businesses all benefited with the fracking in the area.…
President Barack Obama said that fracking can create 14,000 jobs and produce natural gas for…
Fracking is the process used to access natural gas that is trapped underground 1. Recently, fracking in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale has gained the attention of many environmentalists 1. Many energy corporations argue that the natural gas industry is not only important for the United States energy, but it is also a large contributor the U.S. economy 2. Environmentalists have made arguments that fracking is not a clean process because the actual process of fracking involved uses a large volume of water along with sand and chemicals 3. A result of this process is contamination of groundwater; this is raising concerns for many environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency because it is harmful for public health3.…
The two main arguments the candidate will need to be prepared to debate is that the detri-mental effects of fracking cannot be ignored purely because there is economic benefit. These jobs that the business creates and the money that is put into these communities are not real benefits if the health of the community is at state, either due to the increase in noise, air pollution, sound pollu-tion, and ground water contamination. If people have to be concerned with losing their property or lives from polluted water or increased quake activity, then it’s not worth it. The other argument is that there are far more health concerns with the continued use of petroleum oil. The air pollution that it generates has a long history of examples of the affects it has on human health.…
It important for the United States to have more jobs because many people are unemployed and jobs are the primary source of income for U.S. households. However, anti-fracking activists claim that fracking is causing harm to the environment. Fracking is good for the United States because it helps make more energy and brings jobs and money to the United States; however, the people against fracking have some environmental concerns. Fracking is good for the US because it helps the country to make more of its own energy using fewer wells because natural gas needs are increasing, as it is being used more widely. According to the…
In other words, by welcoming fracking into the U.S., the country will receive lots of new energy, new jobs, and can provide money for the citizens. According to Issue Overview: Fracking by “Bloomberg”, “ Fracking generates a little more than half the oil and natural gas the U.S. produces today.” This shows that by embracing fracking, the United States can receive tons of new energy. Energy is always a needed resource around the globe, and fracking can help the U.S.A. get more of it. Bloomberg also says that fracking is “highly profitable” and “created tens of thousands of jobs”.…
2060: the predicted year that Earth will have run out of all oil and natural gas. In approximately 200 years, humans will have used up all of the available resources. And considering the earth is 4.5 billion years old, this is disgusting. If the predicted year is correct, I will be 59 years old when everything the world depends on is gone.…
The great thing about fracking is that it will support America in its independence as a country, for example. ”Tapping those energy sources would make the United States less dependent, economically and politically, on unstable countries such as Venezuela and the Middle East. It would also enable the West to be less dependent on Russian natural gas, which Vladimir Putin currently uses as a political lever. ”(Wheeler). This gives certain countries power over America because it will be catastrophic if they decided to stop supporting us.…