What is hydraulic Fracturing-or Fracking ?
Since the industrial revolution, our energy consumption has risen unceasingly. The majority of this energy consumption is supplied by the fossil fuels like coal or natural gas. Recently there has been a lot of talks about a controversial method of extracting natural gas:hydraulic Fracturing-or Fracking. Put simply, fracking describes the recovery of natural gas from deep layers inside the earth. In this method, porous rock is fractured by the use of water, sand and chemicals, in order to release the enclosed natural gas. The style of Fracking has been known since the 1930’s-1940’s.Nonetheless, only in the last ten years there's been quite a “fracking