In a rural town where population is not large where natural gas is found beneath. The perfect location for the process of fracking. Fracking or Hydraulic fracturing is the process of drilling down into the earth and releasing a high pressure water mix to obtain natural gas. Fracking began as an experiment in 1947 and started commercially in 1950 and since over two million “fracking jobs” have been done since. The process of fracking is very controversial around the world and has even been banned in a number of countries. There are two sides of the fracking debate where I’ve provided an article from both. The first side is the pro-fracking group they believe that there is no basis or proof that there are any environmental risks and the economic
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This author mainly focuses on the non beneficial parts of fracking Experience like mentioned in the article by Adam Vaughn like two children in Pennsylvania who were given lifelong gagging orders which is a lifelong ban on talking about fracking or a woman in Texas experienced nosebleeds, headaches and nausea after drilling started near her home. Countries like Germany and France banned this drilling and even the state of New York did the same for public health risks. Vaughn the author even starts his counterclaim with “There is nothing inherently bad about fracking” he describes the process and states that 1.5 million gallons of water are used per well. He mentions some of his research in the paper with numbers like over thirty thousand new wells were drilled in the U.S between the years of 2011 and 2014. Vaughn talks about some of the benefits mentioning cheaper gas prices, the thousands of jobs, and doubled the crude oil production. But then he talks about the issues and concerns associated with fracking “concerns include contamination of water supplies, seismic activity” with certain chemicals and sand being used brown water is a common side effect and the fear of threatening “the development of emissions-free …show more content…
These two sides represented by these authors Danny Vinik and Adam Vaughn surprisingly agree on a few things in relation to the practice of fracking. Both the anti frackers and pro frackers agree that fracking does benefit America economically greatly because it does in terms of resources, and jobs. They both agree that there is an environmental issue where the two sides split is the urgency of the problem and how to handle it. The last way the two sides agree is that there is a divide on this issue and it is greatly split between the two sides and parties. So even though they agree on a few things its not a lot because they have incredibly different opinions on
This author mainly focuses on the non beneficial parts of fracking Experience like mentioned in the article by Adam Vaughn like two children in Pennsylvania who were given lifelong gagging orders which is a lifelong ban on talking about fracking or a woman in Texas experienced nosebleeds, headaches and nausea after drilling started near her home. Countries like Germany and France banned this drilling and even the state of New York did the same for public health risks. Vaughn the author even starts his counterclaim with “There is nothing inherently bad about fracking” he describes the process and states that 1.5 million gallons of water are used per well. He mentions some of his research in the paper with numbers like over thirty thousand new wells were drilled in the U.S between the years of 2011 and 2014. Vaughn talks about some of the benefits mentioning cheaper gas prices, the thousands of jobs, and doubled the crude oil production. But then he talks about the issues and concerns associated with fracking “concerns include contamination of water supplies, seismic activity” with certain chemicals and sand being used brown water is a common side effect and the fear of threatening “the development of emissions-free …show more content…
These two sides represented by these authors Danny Vinik and Adam Vaughn surprisingly agree on a few things in relation to the practice of fracking. Both the anti frackers and pro frackers agree that fracking does benefit America economically greatly because it does in terms of resources, and jobs. They both agree that there is an environmental issue where the two sides split is the urgency of the problem and how to handle it. The last way the two sides agree is that there is a divide on this issue and it is greatly split between the two sides and parties. So even though they agree on a few things its not a lot because they have incredibly different opinions on