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    gas Industry claims that fracking is completely safe because the shale formations lie far below the water table and pose no threat to groundwater which we use on daily bases: such as for drinking, showering, swimming, and a lot more. However,…

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    proppants such as sand, and chemicals into that well; the result of this process is that fractures occur within the targeted layer of shale rock, which allow for extraction of the desired gas and oil (Hyder and Lerner 2250). As a cleaner burning fuel, natural gas continues to be an important prospect in the energy business. One estimate suggests that, “by 2035, shale gas may make up half of all natural gas produced in the United States” (2251). Hydraulic fracking, however, is not without its…

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    dolomitic siltstone, shale, and carbonate rocks of marine or lacustrine origin; and non marine sandstone, arkose, and conglomerate. In addition, the iron oxide copper-gold and basaltic copper deposit sub models may be applicable within some of the areas studied. Deposits of the reduced-facies subtype (model 30b.1; Cox and others, 2003), also termed coppershale or stratiform copper deposits, are hosted by reduced-facies marine or lacustrine rocks such as green, black, or gray shale, siltstone,…

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    Hydraulic fracturing in other words fracking is a technique used to extract natural gas from rocks. In the deeper layer within the earth, about 7000 feet below, rocks like shale contains gases, water and oil in their pores. Drilling companies carry out a horizontal drilling to the rock layer along with a traditional vertical drilling to create new routes or to extend the existing pipes for the extraction of natural gas. They allow these gases to escape by injecting a fluid under high pressure…

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    However, only recently fracking has become much more widespread. Only less than 2% of the well fractures have used the high-volume technology necessary to get gas from shale, almost all of these in the past ten years. This new approach is far riskier and bigger in volume than the conventional fracking of earlier. An average of 20 million liters of water are forced under pressure into each well, combined with large volumes…

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    tourist. Glaciers have also played a very big role over the years in forming the rugged formation. C; The escarpment of this peninsula is divided into 3 layers stacked upon each other. The bottom layer is a type of rock known as Queenston shale. The Queenston Shale is the remnant of a large, muddy delta that was building into the shallow continental sea. It is reddish in colour because to the existence of hematite which is the main ore found in iron and was dominant within the mud in the…

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    resources. I graduated from Wilmington Early College High School and am currently a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am in an environmental and global policy course, which is why it may seem ironic that I am pushing for shale gas extraction. I understand the environmental effects of fracking but, as Machiavelli would say, “the ends justify the means”. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, natural gas produces 43% fewer carbon…

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    important innovations during the 21st century. Although fracking is a very important innovation, it is not as commonly known topic in daily life. To simply describe the definition of fracking, it is a dangerous process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers, deep within the earth. Injecting water, sand and chemicals into the rock at a high pressure, it allows the gas to flow out of the well. (Shukman, 2013) How is fracking related our daily life? Fracking contaminates our drinking…

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    induced seismicity in Alberta can be minimized. As much as people dislike or protest hydraulic fracturing, it is a necessary evil. Nowadays, hydraulic fracturing is the most economic and safest way to extract oil and gas from beneath thick layers of shale. Canada cannot run without natural gas and produced hydrocarbons; unfortunately this is a harsh truth The phase, injection rate, pressure and depth below the surface should be monitored more closely as proppant/waste water is injected to…

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    conducted on a group of 179 undergraduate students. The students were divided into groups and asked to read news articles on the issue of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale. This topic was appropriate not only because is it controversial, but also because it was a relatively new issue and the pros and cons of drilling for shale gas were constantly being updated in the media at the time of the study. One set of the articles was framed around the negative environmental effects of drilling and…

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