The Benefits Of Fracking In Texas

The two main arguments the candidate will need to be prepared to debate is that the detri-mental effects of fracking cannot be ignored purely because there is economic benefit. These jobs that the business creates and the money that is put into these communities are not real benefits if the health of the community is at state, either due to the increase in noise, air pollution, sound pollu-tion, and ground water contamination. If people have to be concerned with losing their property or lives from polluted water or increased quake activity, then it’s not worth it. The other argument is that there are far more health concerns with the continued use of petroleum oil. The air pollution that it generates has a long history of examples of the affects it has on human health. There is also those that argue that by constantly being dependent on foreign countries, puts this country at risk in parts of the world that we would not need to be in if we produced our own energy.
Future of Hydraulic Fracking in Texas …show more content…
It is more likely to become more contentious if these compa-nies don’t work with the local communities and state governments to find a mutually acceptable and safer method of getting to the natural gas. It will come down to other cities following in Denton, TX footsteps and banning fracking within their municipalities. This is likely to be a drawn out court case as the Texas Oil and Gas association, the State’s energy lobby, has already filed an appeal (Reuters, 2014). (The Denton measure won by more than 58% of the 25,376 ballots cast.) (Reuters,