Well-made play

We recently viewed a documentary in class titled Gasland by Josh Fox. Josh Fox is an environmentalist opposed to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. He has made many other movies/documentaries such as Memorial Day(2008), Gasland Part II(2013) and most recently How to Let Go of the World(2016). I believe that Fox wanted to expose the negative impact that hydraulic fracking has not only on the environment but also on the people. He drove across the country and interviewed different…

There have been recent complaints from North Dakota residents that there is a “black snake” forcing itself onto their private land. I thought that this was America! First of all, no need to have private land, this country was built on the values of sharing. Just look at the first Thanksgiving! Such a wonderous turnout don’t you think? Anyways, enough of the history we know and love so dearly. Let’s get back to the trivial topic of the Native Americans not wanting to allow the good-intentioned…

drill sites. While there is risk involved with drilling for oil and natural gas, it is unclear and not enough research has been done to prove without a doubt that hydraulic fracturing is at fault. There have been samples taken from drinking-water wells of residents that live within one kilometer of fracking sites that show that…

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…

The BBC stated in the article What is fracking and why is it controversial? that “Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.” To be more specific, oil companies drill into the earth to extract gas from rocks using a high pressure water mixture. The water mixture includes gallons of water, sand, and…

flame when it run down the faucet. The Fracking companies are countering the attacks made by these documentaries by creating their own assumptions and documentaries. They are telling the people that methane in water supplies had been there for decades. They’re also showing people with flammable water coming out of faucets that live…

needs water to live and grow. Unfortunately the ocean contains more than 97 percent of all the water on Earth which is undrinkable due to the high levels of salt. With the Earth’s population increasing the level of pollution in the water is raised as well, and if people do not start taking care of the little fresh water that we have then the water will not continue to support the entire human race. One example of companies not caring enough about the environment was the huge BP oil spill in…

The Nobbys lighthouse designed by Alexander Dawson was first lit in 1858 because of the prominent position at the entrance of the port and the crucial use of navigation. Nobbys light is also the third lighthouse constructed in NSW after the Macquarie light in 1818 and in the same year with the Hornby lighthouse. Before the establishment of the present lighthouse (1854), the first beacon was lit on this area (Signal Hill) in 1804 with a range of merely 7 kilometres. Later in 1821, an oil burning…

This “area” is now Midland. An Ohio real estate firm bought land at Midland and founded Midland Town Company. They started to promote the town across the Midwest and they drilled three water wells. In January 1886 the city’s first school opened, and newspaper, the Midland Gazette, was advertising Midland as “the Queen City of the South Plains.” In 1890 the population grew to 600 and The First National Bank of Midland was chartered. By that time…

Fracking has been a controversial topic for many years now and continues to be questioned. There are debates about the definition of fracking and whether the term refers to the entire industrial process or just the underground water blast that fractures the rock after the drilling is finished. One of the concerns about fracking are the flow back water containing a cocktail of chemicals used for many beneficial purposes but often contains radioactive materials and salts from the underground…