Hydraulic fracturing

Not only does it hurt the environment but also the people and wildlife living in it. Fracking is short for Hydraulic Fracking. Fracking is drilling deep into the earth’s crust and injecting chemicals to collect oils and gas. Fracking is unnaturally creating cracks in shale rock and cause earthquakes. It is dangerous for people living in and around fracking sites. The ground water becomes contaminated and the air is polluted with disease and cancer causing chemicals. The negatives outweigh the…

Academic Analysis: “Natural Gas Fracking Addresses All of Our Major Problems” In his essay, “Natural Gas Fracking Addresses All of our Major Problems,” Richard Pierce argues that drilling for natural gas by using horizontal drilling and fracturing of shale formations will solve many of our nation’s issues. He cites that our abundant supply of natural gas has the ability to improve our economy, the environment, and geopolitical conditions as well provide a constant, dependable, global energy…

Earthquakes have now been reported in states that rarely, if ever, get earthquakes ever since fracking has been doing water injections. Water injections consist of putting the wastewater from fracking into an empty water well and leaving it there. There have been studies after studies showing that earthquakes, and unusually large ones, were suddenly occurring in low to minimal seismic activity states. In an article by Newsweek Global called “The Earth Moved, And It’s Our Fault” says, “But in…

Ethnography Report – Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma The tribe I’ll be discussing throughout my ethnography report are the Cherokee Indians. There are three sub-tribes to the Cherokee’s which are the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. Although they all originate from the same tribe/settlement, I’m going to be discussing the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Today, this tribe of Cherokee’s live within 14 counties of Northeastern Oklahoma.…

LONE EAGLE The rank of Lone Eagle is similar to the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout, but with a specific focus on character and leadership. I was considered for the award after completing the qualifications for mastery of Survival, Archery, Swimming, Tripping (Orienteering), Canoeing, and Campcraft. After extensive interviews regarding my leadership at camp and the way I served my campers and fellow staff, I was inducted into the Lone Eagle Fellowship, which is committed to praying for and serving…

There is a lot examples of new inventions-or new technologies- that start with enthusiasm, then, it brings negative consequences sooner or later. Drugs suppose to save lives; however, you could always find its side effects on the outer package. Hydraulic fracturing is commonly applied to wells for shale gas, tight gas, tight oil, and coal seam gas, which is designed to greatly increase the flow rate, and reduce the pollution during the process of producing, compared to the conventional method,…

In past decades, New York City has had various issues which have had a major impact concerning health and wellness. There are a lot of specific environmental issues that are putting a major negative effect on NYC environmental factors. One issue that sparked my interest specifically is water pollution. The human body is 3 quarts of water. Water is essential to sustain life on all levels. New York City is covered with nearly 1,850 miles of shoreline, thousands of lakes, rivers, and others…

Fracking is the process of drilling deep into the earth’s crust and injecting water, sand and chemicals under immense pressure in order to obtain natural gas. With this process there are benefits and also disadvantages. There are many risks to groundwater from surface spills that are associated with shale energy development, they can be managed or mitigated by following certain precautions and steps. Groundwater is present throughout the atmosphere. There is surface water, atmospheric water and…

Gasoline and Diesel fuels Gasoline and diesel fuels are one of those products that majority of the working class requires in the daily basis to conduct their regular daily activities. From taking their kids to daycare, or dropping the kids to school or simply driving to work. The demand for gasoline and diesel fuels is all around us. The driving fuel for our public transportation, Gasoline and diesel fuels prices are constantly adjusting to the supply and demand equilibrium. There many factors…

Professor of Economics, Paul Krugman speaks of solar power in the United States and it’s rise above fossil power in his New York Times op-ed, “Here Comes the Sun.” Is solar power really better than fossil power? Even though solar energy has a variety of benefits such as being abundant, environmentally friendly and also is declining in cost, it still has a few issues. One case of these issues is implementing that solar energy into the US electrical grid. According to the article “Green energy…