The role that natural gas fracking will play in the United States' energy future is quickly evolving. By the process of Hydraulic fracturing obtaining natural oils and gas. This process has significant impact for the country’s economy. However, the process of hydraulic fracturing has a negative impact on the environment due to the waste water injection into the fracking wells. The history of the process of fracking has evolved from the start due to the advancing of technology. The United States government has centralized the environmental law to have a generalized regulation on the control of fracking. Even though, the unsettling debate of the negative effects of fracking on the environment and the economy.
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According to Jeff Goodell, “The use of water in western states like Texas and Colorado over 3.6 million gallons of water needed per fracture. In 2010, the U.S. EPA estimated that 70 to 140 billion gallons of water were used to fracture just 35,000 wells in the United States, more than was used by the city of Denver, Colorado in the same time. The U.S in 2012 is estimated to drill 1.2 million wells and planning to add each slate of 35000 new wells each year”(The Fracking Bubble) This shows the process of hydraulic fracturing is not given more thought in the environmental hazard as it is but more known to be beneficiary for the economy of the …show more content…
Therefore, the U.S is generating regulatory responses against fracking. However, the country’s approach to decrease negative effects of the fracking process is inconsistent. According to the article, “The U.S fracking regulatory are inconsistencies due to differing opinions on how regulators ought to manage new technologies with unknown environmental impacts; the promise of economic benefit; how politically contested hydraulic fracturing is in the jurisdictions in question; and the fact that much is still unknown about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing”(REI,p110-140) Although, the waste water from the fracking is a hazard to the environment. Many fracking industries are recycling the waste water and selling it to the community to de-ice roads in the winter because of the salt content. (NYT 2011) Even though the reusing of fracking waste water and decreasing disposing costs had made significant changes the negative effects of hydraulic fracking remains. Though the amount of waste water decreases over time, the fracking sites continue to ooze out waste toxic
The process of unconventional natural …show more content…
According to Jeff Goodell, “The use of water in western states like Texas and Colorado over 3.6 million gallons of water needed per fracture. In 2010, the U.S. EPA estimated that 70 to 140 billion gallons of water were used to fracture just 35,000 wells in the United States, more than was used by the city of Denver, Colorado in the same time. The U.S in 2012 is estimated to drill 1.2 million wells and planning to add each slate of 35000 new wells each year”(The Fracking Bubble) This shows the process of hydraulic fracturing is not given more thought in the environmental hazard as it is but more known to be beneficiary for the economy of the …show more content…
Therefore, the U.S is generating regulatory responses against fracking. However, the country’s approach to decrease negative effects of the fracking process is inconsistent. According to the article, “The U.S fracking regulatory are inconsistencies due to differing opinions on how regulators ought to manage new technologies with unknown environmental impacts; the promise of economic benefit; how politically contested hydraulic fracturing is in the jurisdictions in question; and the fact that much is still unknown about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing”(REI,p110-140) Although, the waste water from the fracking is a hazard to the environment. Many fracking industries are recycling the waste water and selling it to the community to de-ice roads in the winter because of the salt content. (NYT 2011) Even though the reusing of fracking waste water and decreasing disposing costs had made significant changes the negative effects of hydraulic fracking remains. Though the amount of waste water decreases over time, the fracking sites continue to ooze out waste toxic