Fracking: Helpful Or Harmful To The Environment

Imagine a world in which the water was undrinkable, the land was unfertile and the air was suffocating. This is the world consumed by fracking. Fracking is harmful to the environment but seems to be making its way still around the world. Understanding the risk and the benefit ration and becoming educated about the ramifications should be a requirement to the decision makers determining whether an area will allow fracking or not. “The process of this hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water (Hambling). Once the well is developed, the carrying fluid can then flow back in the ground surface along with the gas; however only 20% of the …show more content…
“Back then, the technology used up to 20,000 to 80,000 gallons of water but with the technology we use today we use up to 8 million gallons of water and 75,000 to 320,000 pounds of sand per well” (Hambling). Fracking is the process of injecting a million of gallons of toxic chemicals and water into the ground to extract natural gas and although the government is the one profiting from fracking deals, all fracking should be stopped because of its negative effects on the environment and economy.
Fracking creates large amounts of negative effects towards the environment; this is one of the main reasons why fracking should be put to a stop. Water contamination is one of the major concerns with fracking. Gases and hydraulic fracturing chemicals are rising to the surface. These chemicals and pollutants are contaminating our ground and surface water with methane emissions and air pollution. Fracking is polluting water sources