The Disadvantages Of Fracking

Fracking is a process made for mining to release and collect gases within the ground. Fracking uses many different chemicals and a drill to create what is a mini earthquake in the ground, fracking causes many environmental problems and many people wonder whether it is a positive thing to do in the situation to collect the gases from within the ground. There are many pros and cons to the process of fracking and the real question is do just the big businesses benefit from the processes or can other people somehow benefit from the process of fracking. Fracking is also a process that can avoid a lot of the environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, that is why many gas companies avoid lawsuits and cannot be held liable, they …show more content…
Fracking has been a supposed cause of many different forms of ground and water pollution, it can cause runoff and contaminate many things within a short distance from the well. Many companies who drill and use fracking, do so on other people's land and to do so they have to gain permission and usually pay off the owners for every acre they have and it can get up to $15,000 and acre. They do this and the landowners usually end up signing something to agree that if their land were to become contaminated or polluted they cannot publicly speak about it and if they were to do so they could be sued or tried in a court of law with the contract they …show more content…
It can be a big cause of earthquakes as well and it has caused many earthquakes in the past and even ones that surpassed 3.0 on the Richter scale. These processes also have had other failures such as barge and dam failure and flooding causing destruction to the land and contamination on top of that. Fracking also has made many homeowners’ water supplies and wells became. contaminated and unsafe to drink because of the fracking processes. People have found many different chemicals in their water from fracking. They have found over three hundred different chemicals that come from the processes and nearly all of them are unsafe to be around and consume. There have also been cases around the country where people are able to literally light their water on fire and use it basically as a gas, and nothing else. The companies even tried to fix the problems by adding Reverse Osmosis machines to their properties and even with the machines to decontaminate the water, the water still is unsafe to drink and eats right through the filters that are used. That as itself shows fracking is a dangerous and a very contaminable process. That’s why fracking is such a reckless and non thought through process that benefits very