Hydraulic fracturing

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…

Every day, the world produces carbon dioxide which is released into the earth’s atmosphere and will still be there in one hundred years’ time. This increased amount of carbon dioxide increases the warmth of Earth and is considered to be the main cause of the "Global Warming Effect." The most helpful answer to global warming is to replace energy techniques with alternatives that have better performance and do not emit carbon dioxide. This is what we call alternative energy. It is estimated that…

finite energy source, after all. Furthermore, coal mining is historically known as a dangerous industry and the environmental impact of coal burning extends beyond greenhouse gas emission to disposal of hazardous solid waste as well. The use of hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas is responsible for increases in seismic activity is regions generally considered to be tectonically stable. However, the timeline and effectiveness of negative emission are still an unknown (Anderson…

Fracking can be devastating to the environment and the health of the community that lives near any fracking operation. There have been many cases documented where families that either live near a fracking site or that have even allowed fracking companies to frack on their land, having unusual symptoms that are related back to fracking. These symptoms can be but not limited to fatigue, burning eyes, dermatologic irritation, headaches, upper respiratory problems and many more. Along with these…

the cooperation of US and European companies to Russia in deepwater production projects, the Arctic, and shale oil, as well as an embargo on exports to the Russian technology for such projects, including equipment for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Russia prohibited supplies of dual-use technologies that can be used in defense…

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…

Part of me is still that chronic procrastinator I’ve always been, but I’ve come to understand that some of what I considered delaying tactics was really pre-writing. I realized that while I had been doing those things that my essay was being assembled in my head. If I came up with an idea or a solution to a problem I had written myself into I’d go back to my desk and write. If I was at work, as I often was, I’d make a note in the notebook that has become my constant companion. My writing…

S. imports fell to just 4% of its energy consumption. The U.S. imported 16% in 2012 and 30% in 2005 (U.S. Energy Infomation Administration, 2014). Until 2008 the Marcellus Shale Play was deemed unrecoverable. Advances in technology, namely hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and increased demand, have made the Marcellus Shale Play a viable economic opportunity. In 2007, energy exploration companies began establishing a presence in the…

The first application of coiled tubing (CT) occurred during WWII in a project named PLUTO (pipeline under the ocean). It involved the placement of a continuous pipeline on the seafloor across the English Channel. The pipeline was constructed using smaller individual sections of tubing welded together coiled into a large spool of continuous tubing. Though the project had limited success, it set the stage for further exploration into this new technology. Industry professionals pursed the…

Animal Agriculture: The Leading Cause of Climate Change Food by means of animal agriculture is – and probably always will be – an extension of our lives. Even before recorded time, humans have been raising livestock for means of survival and personal use and have only embraced this process as time progressed because it is our main source of food. We’ve adopted methods of artificial selection and gene manipulation to raise a more desirable superpopulation of livestock that environmental…