Jwalant Bhagat
Gasland is documentary, which talks about a problem that is currently sweeping the country and promising landowners a quick payoff. Gasland’s Josh Fox discovers hydraulic fracturing, a drilling process. The Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act of 2005 is an exemption that hydraulic fracturing has from the United States’ most basic environmental regulations. Some regulations include the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Josh Fox discovered over a twenty-four investigation some environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing. He discovered that tap water is so contaminated that it could be set on fire straight from the tap. It also showed residents over the United States showing symptoms in these drilling areas. These drilling areas also …show more content…
Hydraulic fracturing is basically drilling into large shale fields, coal bed seams, tight sands containing gas deposits that have been trapped in the rock. Hydraulic fracturing requires fracking fluids, which are chemical cocktails consisting of five hundred ninety-six chemicals, some of which chemicals are neurotoxins and carcinogens. This process also includes seven million gallons of water, also mixed with large amounts of chemicals. Josh Fox predicted that forty trillion gallons of chemical water have been created through hydraulic fracturing. Much of that water has been injected or left seeping into the ground.
After watching the documentary, Gasland, I was curious and wanted to know if any of the harms of hydraulic fracturing are coming to my resident state of North Carolina. Allowing hydraulic fracturing to be practiced in North Carolina would threaten our waters. Harmful wastewaters can spill and pollute our lakes and rivers. These toxic chemicals can leak into our drinking water and the methane gas being released during the drilling process can end up in tap water, putting on the rick of
Gasland is documentary, which talks about a problem that is currently sweeping the country and promising landowners a quick payoff. Gasland’s Josh Fox discovers hydraulic fracturing, a drilling process. The Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act of 2005 is an exemption that hydraulic fracturing has from the United States’ most basic environmental regulations. Some regulations include the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Josh Fox discovered over a twenty-four investigation some environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing. He discovered that tap water is so contaminated that it could be set on fire straight from the tap. It also showed residents over the United States showing symptoms in these drilling areas. These drilling areas also …show more content…
Hydraulic fracturing is basically drilling into large shale fields, coal bed seams, tight sands containing gas deposits that have been trapped in the rock. Hydraulic fracturing requires fracking fluids, which are chemical cocktails consisting of five hundred ninety-six chemicals, some of which chemicals are neurotoxins and carcinogens. This process also includes seven million gallons of water, also mixed with large amounts of chemicals. Josh Fox predicted that forty trillion gallons of chemical water have been created through hydraulic fracturing. Much of that water has been injected or left seeping into the ground.
After watching the documentary, Gasland, I was curious and wanted to know if any of the harms of hydraulic fracturing are coming to my resident state of North Carolina. Allowing hydraulic fracturing to be practiced in North Carolina would threaten our waters. Harmful wastewaters can spill and pollute our lakes and rivers. These toxic chemicals can leak into our drinking water and the methane gas being released during the drilling process can end up in tap water, putting on the rick of