Frack Off Marissa and Derek Smith and their kids from Pennsylvania cannot live a healthy life any longer. There are ten Hydraulic Fracking wells on their property; one in particular is hundred feet away from their home. From the fracking wells in nearly spitting distance of Marissa’s home, her family is getting sick and they are no longer able to swim, fish or play in the streams near their house. Five generations of their family have lived in the same house and swam, fished and played in the same streams. The family is no longer capable of those things because of Hydraulic fracking.…
The current fracking industry should be completely banned due to the extreme waste of resources, the danger to the public, and the laws that fracking can be free from. To begin with, the fracking industry wastes more resources than it creates. Each site requires an estimate of 13,000 diesel truck trips, 5 acres per well pad, and 5 million gallons of fresh water per fracking cycle. The resources wasted by just one site is absolutely massive, causing water to be lost, acres to be completely covered, and more trucks for the site. Another problem is the danger fracking is to the public near these industries.…
Hydraulic fracturing is the process used to fracture shale rock deposits, allowing the extraction oil and natural gas from deep below the earth’s surface. The drilling and fracturing process produces large amounts of contaminated wastewater that is pressurized and forced back into the ground deep below the earth’s surface. Over the last several years there have been many debates over the dangers of “Fracking” and the economic impact. There are a lot of concerns from environmental groups and concerned citizens, not only with the drilling and fracturing process, but with the excessive amounts of fresh water wasted in the process and the disposal of wastewater after the drilling is complete. Hydraulic fracturing poses many dangers to the earth…
Herrmann 1 Emily Herrmann Hepting AP Lang P.5 14 April 2016 How to Stop Our Fracking Problems For more than 60 years the United States and the world have been fracking. We have been fracking so much that the world production of shale beds has gone up from one percent to twenty-five percent. Fracking is a process that involves the releasing of oil and gas from underground formations that are otherwise to difficult to mine.…
The controversies surrounding fracking involve the environmental impacts of the drilling itself and the extraction fluid. The fluid consists of various acids, detergents, and poisons that are unregulated by the federal government (NYTimes). This fluid must travel back up the well to the surface. This makes contaminating the area surround it in the event of a broken pipe or seal.…
The Environmental Protection Agency defines frackings as “A well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water”(Environmental Protection Agency). This process, employed to release natural gas involves drilling deep into the ground and shooting a high pressure water solution into rock formations in order to release the gas inside. Although the history of fracking can be traced back to the 1940’s, it wasn’t until 2003 that was incorporated commercially on a massive scale not only in the United States, but also across the world. This turning point in scale caused immediate backlash from environmentalists across the country. The controversy being: while fracking has completely revolutionised the energy industry, the environmental risks it poses cannot be overlooked.…
Fracking is not a new concept it has actually been around since 1940 and will not make The United States independent. That is a common misconception about fracking. Fracking pollutes the environment, wastes a lot of water, and affects ground water. Hydraulic fracturing is also known as fracking. “Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a technique used to extract petroleum and natural gas from underground rock formations.…
Fracking is the process used to access natural gas that is trapped underground 1. Recently, fracking in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale has gained the attention of many environmentalists 1. Many energy corporations argue that the natural gas industry is not only important for the United States energy, but it is also a large contributor the U.S. economy 2. Environmentalists have made arguments that fracking is not a clean process because the actual process of fracking involved uses a large volume of water along with sand and chemicals 3. A result of this process is contamination of groundwater; this is raising concerns for many environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency because it is harmful for public health3.…
Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is a controversial method of extracting gas and oil by injecting liquids at high pressures into the ground to force open fissures. Although fracking has been around for over half a century, it still remains a very debated topic and for good reason. Fracking has the potential to create jobs, reduce dependence on foreign oil sources, and lower taxes, among many other positive effects. However, fracking is also dangerous to the environment is numerous ways and can have adverse effects on not only wildlife, but humans as well. Fracking is then, clearly controversial, and raises the question, should we expand fracking?…
Fracking is a cheaper and more harmful way for us to get oil out of the ground. It has caused just as much bad as good, if not more. The chemicals in the Fracking Fluid can leak into our water, poison our loved ones, and pollute our environment. Fracking should be illegal due to its detrimental effects on the environment and people. Here’s a “fun,” fact; each fracking job uses between one to eight million gallons of water and over forty thousand gallons of chemicals (Source 2).…
There should be regulations on the amount of chemicals that are used and the amount of fracking done in one location should be limited this way the environment isn’t being hurt for so long. There should be regulations on how close the fracking sites can be to living communities. This would help eliminate the environment to the exposure of the chemicals that are released while fracking. This regulation were thought up in 2013. It took a couple years to come up with these regulation.…
A serious threat to family, communities and surrounding environments with many areas located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas and Ohio reporting water pollution. The pollution comes from the leaking of fracking fluid into nearby aquifers after the fluid used in fracking is pumped back into the well and sealed once the mine is considered non-viable. This process can also produce methane in nearby water sources, caused by the gas leaking into these water sources contaminating the precious freshwater and making the water flammable. The chemicals and fluid leeched into the aquifers chemical makeup is unknown because fracking companies are not required to disclose that information to the public. Compromising people’s safety and producing adverse health affects that are hard to diagnose and treat, due to the unknown chemicals that could be producing…
There are a few things not regulated by federal law in a fracking cocktail such as acids, detergents and poisons. I personally support fracking because not only is it good for the economy it gives job to the community. There are always going to be things that damage the environment but fracking has minimal damage compared to other things.…
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…
In many people’s minds, the term “Fracking” only applies to the controversial extraction process and the environmental impact surrounding that process. Hydraulic Fracturing or “Fracking” for short is a process where chemicals and water are injected into wells to breakup rock formations that have gas or oil trapped in the rock itself. This process is specifically used for developing and extracting oil and natural gas from shale. While most people have heard the term “Fracking”, very few understand or even consider the down the road steps required to transfer, process and transport the fuel once it has been extracted or the implications and environmental or health impacts that follows in its wake. While fracking is currently banned in New York State and much of the New England area, those states still play a part in getting the fuel to export markets such as Canada or overseas.…