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    Fracking say, how fracking technology have made tremendous reserves of natural gas in the United States economically recoverable for the first time. Energy Information Administration, shale gas plays, or fields, in the United States most notably the Marcellus, in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York, and the Barnett and have powered these states over 110 years. Activists have always complained and now they want to argue what fossil fuels are beneficial…

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    Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a type of drilling that uses water, sand and chemicals, shot at high pressure, to release energy resources trapped inside rocks. This recently new technology for drilling allows areas that were previously inaccessible for drilling, like very concentrated rocky areas, to now be opened up through fracking to obtain natural gases and oil. The water solution used with this drilling technique produces almost the same amount of “sludge” as an after…

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