Throughout the years oil and gas compaines have come up with a technique known as fracking where people drilled into deep shale fromations to retreat natural gases and oil from the oceans. Fracking transformed the United States economic system by providing a new alternative at seeking oil and gas from the oceans, however not everyone agrred to the use of fracking and are considering fracking to be unsafe to the environment and the people and utlimately believing that fracking should be elimnated. The problems with fracking is if people don’t regulate fracking or eliminate it fracking will cause human health issues and cause the environmental to fall apart. The major risks that are opposing threats to the environment and human health are water
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Some of these chemicals are released when disel trucks transport materials from site to site exhaust toxic chemicals into the air from the disel engines. “Diesel soot particles, which can lodge deep within the lungs, increasing health risks including: emergency room visits, hospital admissions, asthma attacks, cardiopulmonary disease, respiratory disease, adverse birth outcomes, and premature death”(Nrdc.org, 2018). Exposure of disel exhaust makes researchers worried for the health of people and what will be the outcome if fracking continues to release chemicals into the air. “Some of the pollutants released by drilling include: benzene, toluene, xylene and ethyl benzene (BTEX), particulate matter and dust, ground level ozone, or smog, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and metals contained in diesel fuel combustion with exposure to these pollutants known to cause short-term illness, cancer, organ damage, nervous system disorders and birth defects or even death” (Case Studies, 2018). Chemical pollutants that are spread from fracking are dangerous to people and not worth the health risks of people just so oil and gas compaines can make profit. Oil and gas workers are not protected the chemical exposure when working can get the workers sick or even cause some deaths and the …show more content…
Waste water disposals use more fracking fluid when extracting oil and rase the pressure level within the rocks that cause an earthquake. Not all earthquakes can be big, but if your working on a fracking site and an earthquake occurs it can be dangerous for the workers when dealing with heavey equipment and fracking chemcials. “Although most of the earthquakes are small in magnitude (the strongest measured 5.2), their relationship with the storage of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater does little to ease the fears over fossil energy's long list of externalities”(Case Studies, 2018). Fracking earthquakes are dangerous because they can produce big earthquakes especially when the fracking fluid goes deep into the fault line causing large earthquakes to form. The farther away fluid goes away from the fracking well it will cause higer amounts of stress to occur and is a indicator of how dangerous fracking can be that fracking effects environmental hazards caused by the fracking
Some of these chemicals are released when disel trucks transport materials from site to site exhaust toxic chemicals into the air from the disel engines. “Diesel soot particles, which can lodge deep within the lungs, increasing health risks including: emergency room visits, hospital admissions, asthma attacks, cardiopulmonary disease, respiratory disease, adverse birth outcomes, and premature death”(Nrdc.org, 2018). Exposure of disel exhaust makes researchers worried for the health of people and what will be the outcome if fracking continues to release chemicals into the air. “Some of the pollutants released by drilling include: benzene, toluene, xylene and ethyl benzene (BTEX), particulate matter and dust, ground level ozone, or smog, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and metals contained in diesel fuel combustion with exposure to these pollutants known to cause short-term illness, cancer, organ damage, nervous system disorders and birth defects or even death” (Case Studies, 2018). Chemical pollutants that are spread from fracking are dangerous to people and not worth the health risks of people just so oil and gas compaines can make profit. Oil and gas workers are not protected the chemical exposure when working can get the workers sick or even cause some deaths and the …show more content…
Waste water disposals use more fracking fluid when extracting oil and rase the pressure level within the rocks that cause an earthquake. Not all earthquakes can be big, but if your working on a fracking site and an earthquake occurs it can be dangerous for the workers when dealing with heavey equipment and fracking chemcials. “Although most of the earthquakes are small in magnitude (the strongest measured 5.2), their relationship with the storage of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater does little to ease the fears over fossil energy's long list of externalities”(Case Studies, 2018). Fracking earthquakes are dangerous because they can produce big earthquakes especially when the fracking fluid goes deep into the fault line causing large earthquakes to form. The farther away fluid goes away from the fracking well it will cause higer amounts of stress to occur and is a indicator of how dangerous fracking can be that fracking effects environmental hazards caused by the fracking