Persuasive Essay On Marine Environmental Issues

A marine environmental problem today is hydraulic fracturing. This is a process that is used to release natural gases. This happens by drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure to fracture shale rocks, which in turn lets out the natural gas. One of the major problems with this is when the fracking fluid, contains over six hundred different chemicals. Chemicals such as, Mercury, formaldehyde and lead to name a few. In the America today there are some 500,000 gas wells, but they need to use eight million gallons of water for each frack that happens, each well can only have eighteen fracks. When the math is said and done there needs to be seventy-two trillion gallons of water and three hundred and sixty gallons of chemicals to maintain the wells America has running today. Each time that fracking happens chemicals leak out of the pipeline and contaminate surrounding ocean areas. Chemicals released in this process on a normal basis are methane gas, the drinking water around these fracking areas …show more content…
The government needs to step in and tighten the existing laws and present new ones for fracking. Making a plan such as a five year one where they slowly put a ban on fracking. The reality is the government will not be able to end this overnight but starting slowly would help greatly. Solar and windmill energy is renewable and cost effective. The down sides would be companies losing money although, they could just switch over and still make money. It will ultimately be up to the government to change the way energy is provided to the consumer. This way may cost a lot of money at first but in the long runs pays its self-off in a just a few years and increases the quality of life in the ocean and on land. This is where replacing gas with wind mill energy could come in handy instead of having to depend on gases that are destroying our