Hydraulic fracturing, which is commonly known as fracking or hydrofracturing is a drilling technique below the earth’s surface that is used to extract natural gas or oil by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressures. This mining technique can be traced back to the 1860’s during the civil war but modern day fracking began in the 1990’s. Lt. Col. Edward A. L. Roberts in 1866 lowered a torpedo into a narrow canal that contained about fifteen to twenty pounds of powder, lowered into an oil well where they would explode it. The invention increased production by 1200 percent, and let to the funding of Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company. In 1947, Floyd Farris began a study over the relationship between oil and gas output, and the amount of
