Fracking Should Be Banned Essay

Homes destroyed, property damaged, and water supplies polluted. This is all from oil companies fracking into our planet. Many may ask, “why has fracking become such a big deal when the process has been around since the 1940’s?” Oil companies have designed a new way to frack to get the most of the oil and natural gas out of the earth; this process is called horizontal drilling. Horizontal drilling has made fracking become a problem all around the globe (Brantley). This process has enabled engineers to inject millions of gallons of high-pressure water (which shifts the earths plates from force of the injection) directly into layers of shale to create the fractures that release the gas. Chemicals are added to the process, which if the pipe cracks, the chemicals could leak out polluting water deposits.
The United States has very few regulations on fracking. In fact, researchers at the Breakthrough Institute conducted an extensive investigation revealing the role that federal agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Laboratories played in supporting gas industry experimentation with shale fracking. Federal agencies have even funded oil companies to drill. For U.S. citizens, it has frustrated millions from the government supporting fracking in The United States. Millions of people’s homes have suffered damage from earthquakes,
Yes, it should. Fracking is bad for our world and disturbs the peace of our land. It causes homes to tremble and fall. Properties ruined and sometimes love ones lost. The United States’ government should ban oil companies from fracking the ground like some European countries who have already banned the Earth crushing process. The United States has a plentiful supply of oil already that could last for 50 or more plus years. If the Nation is on the verge of running out, buy from other countries and export more than import to substitute from the expenses of purchasing