Hydraulic Fracturing
Keyontara Renford
Mr. Coffey
English 101
October 10th, 2013
Most of our bodies are made up of water, just about 75-80%. Imagine someone drilling inside of you to suck all of your bodies nutrients and minerals out, then mixing your body water with chemicals that you are unaware of. Today making a difference in our economic system, means poisoning our Great Lakes, killing off the future, and not giving children the benefit of the doubt if that were done to the people of the states. Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking, and fracture stimulation, is shale gas drilling companies come to an area, buy up drilling rights from landowners, cut new roads and raze patches of land formerly undisturbed natural environments, cart in and out tens of millions of gallons of water and tons of chemicals and “proppants” like sand with hundreds of big rig trucks that produce tons of diesel emissions and wear down existing roads, drill holes under multiple properties, mix water, chemicals and proppants together on-site to make fracking fluid, pump the fracking fluid in and out underground to shatter underground deposits of shale to release bound-up natural gas. After the entire process everyone they install permanent equipment to “clean” and capture most of the natural gas pack up go home cashes their checks and live happily while your land is being contaminated with a light white mist of chemicals to top your land and on top of that you would be at risk of effecting some of the senses, skin, eyes, and respiratory functions (nofracking!). The process produces toxic wastewater containing carcinogens and radioactive elements such as radon and uranium. Citizens should not drink, or bath in chemicals harmful to their bodies, nor should people pay for fresh water when it can just run from the tap in their homes. Hydraulic Fracturing should not be an option for making money. In order to bring our economy out of its depression we will be sacrificing our drinking water,
Mr. Coffey
English 101
October 10th, 2013
Most of our bodies are made up of water, just about 75-80%. Imagine someone drilling inside of you to suck all of your bodies nutrients and minerals out, then mixing your body water with chemicals that you are unaware of. Today making a difference in our economic system, means poisoning our Great Lakes, killing off the future, and not giving children the benefit of the doubt if that were done to the people of the states. Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking, and fracture stimulation, is shale gas drilling companies come to an area, buy up drilling rights from landowners, cut new roads and raze patches of land formerly undisturbed natural environments, cart in and out tens of millions of gallons of water and tons of chemicals and “proppants” like sand with hundreds of big rig trucks that produce tons of diesel emissions and wear down existing roads, drill holes under multiple properties, mix water, chemicals and proppants together on-site to make fracking fluid, pump the fracking fluid in and out underground to shatter underground deposits of shale to release bound-up natural gas. After the entire process everyone they install permanent equipment to “clean” and capture most of the natural gas pack up go home cashes their checks and live happily while your land is being contaminated with a light white mist of chemicals to top your land and on top of that you would be at risk of effecting some of the senses, skin, eyes, and respiratory functions (nofracking!). The process produces toxic wastewater containing carcinogens and radioactive elements such as radon and uranium. Citizens should not drink, or bath in chemicals harmful to their bodies, nor should people pay for fresh water when it can just run from the tap in their homes. Hydraulic Fracturing should not be an option for making money. In order to bring our economy out of its depression we will be sacrificing our drinking water,