The Pros And Cons Of Fracking

The Fracking Phenomena Russell Gold’s book, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, is a great book for anyone who wants to know exactly what fracking is and the effects that come with it. Gold also reports in his book about the pros and cons of fracking and the impact it has had on our world.
The American energy revolution is the point in time where there was a significant increase in which the main resource of energy was the product of oil and gas extractions. The American energy revolution was a time in which there was a mass increase in oil and gas extraction activities and a significant decrease in burning coal as an energy source.
Out of the many methods and procedures that have been developed
One good effect that fracking has had and Gold noted, is that fracking has significantly improved our economy by creating more jobs for people. For many years our economy had suffered with plummeting unemployment rates, but about 10 years ago when fracking came about it was like a savior had come because fracking provided more jobs and in turn lowered the unemployment rate. In some ways fracking is a better alternative for the environment. Burning coal is very hazardous to the environment because of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Fracking does not produce CO2 emissions because it is natural gas that is being produced and thus it is technically cleaner for the
Fracking, when not carried out safely has been known to contaminate our groundwater due to leakages of the chemicals used in the procedure. Fracking has also been linked to cause small earthquakes in nearby areas where fracking is taking place. Some people also fear fracking because of the BP incident that happened back in April of 2010 where millions of barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. In his chapter, “Ghost Ridin’ Grandpa,” Gold explains what the problem was for BP and how it could have been avoided The BP oil spill was the result of not performing the tests needed to make sure that the cement used for the well formed a solid seal. The cement did not form the proper barrier that was needed and as a result when BP’s drill bit arrived at the targeted site, combustible natural gas mixed with petroleum, and they ignited as they pushed up to the surface causing the well to spill an uncontrollable amount into the Gulf of Mexico. This accident could have been totally avoidable had the proper tests been taken and the proper tools for the well had been used. It is at this point when Dr. Claude E. Cooke Jr., otherwise known as a legend of hydraulic fracturing, invented a new tool for oil wells that will make drilling for oil safer. Cooke’s tool functions as a thermometer as it takes measurement of temperatures within a well and by looking at these temperatures companies can make sure that their wells are in a