Is Fracking Safe? February 3‚ 2012 Is Fracking Safe Safe natural gas fracturing or “fracking” is on the rise and our country is benefiting from in on several levels. From meeting energy needs to creating jobs and helping the economy‚ natural gas is an invisible miracle. Many precautions are taken during the fracking process in order to ensure it is safe as possible. Natural gas is something I work around every day due
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for cooking. Fossil fuel companies developed a process for natural gas called hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing has become the most used technique in the United States’ to produce oil and natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing is also knows as fracking is a technique to produce natural gas and oil. Wells are built which involves the injection of water‚ sand and chemicals at high pressure into bedrock to produce natural gas and oil. The process creates small cracks or fractures in rock formations
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Studies Section: Friday @ 2:00 with Jason Linn Fracking: The Invention of the Century or Destructive New Technology? Introduction: Possible quote – someone who supports the processs. Possible story: some analogy of something that was a good‚ necessary idea but just put off the inevitable and had a negative affect than fix it. Need for energy‚ how new ideas are necessary But is fracking really the best option? Public eye‚ people here about fracking a lot. But is it really a “QUOTE AGAIN”‚ or something
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deep Shale‚ which we have been unable to reach. This method‚ also known as Fracking‚ is also very small. It starts out with a drill rig and a holding tank for the first 3 months‚ but then once the well is dug‚ it looks like another oil drill‚ and will continue to draw oil from the ground for the next 20-30 years. Fracking involves the use of radioactive materials‚ explosives‚ and hazardous chemicals. I believe that‚ as Fracking becomes more popular‚ and less scrutinized‚ the watch over it will become
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Report on the effects of shale gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing in the Republic of Ireland. 2nd edition Edited by Brigit Beemster and Ron Beemster BSc MSc‚ for the Fracking Research and Information Centre‚ Sligo 15 December 2011 Table of Contents: Section 1 2 3 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6 7 8 9 10 Page Summary The authors Introduction Licences in Ireland Introduction to shale gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing
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forestry‚ and manufacturing. Many people know that the oil industry is hurting us but probably not in the way it is killing us. Fracking causes cancer‚ organ damage‚ and death. In order to get a typically fracked well these companies are required to use between 55 Thousand and 220 Thousand litres of chemicals. The Government and companies are tricking us into thinking that the fracking process is a natural occurring inconvenience‚ and in no
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upsetting to learn about the many environmental issues associated with mining of oil. I felt that more needed to be done to find replacement to oil fuels. I have always been against the practice of fracking and I felt it had too many negative implications. I was thoroughly disappointed by the U.S volume of fracking. I believed that this process isn’t natural and agreed with the authors (Botkin & Keller) that we need to understand the environment better first before undergoing such methods. The environmental
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University study published in 2011 examined methane in groundwater in Pennsylvania and New York states overlying the Marcellus Shale and the Utica Shale. It determined that groundwater tended to contain much higher concentrations of methane near fracking wells‚ with potential explosion hazard. They also found that the type of gas detected in the water was the same type of gas that was being extracted from the ground. (Clayton‚ 2011) FracFocus. (2012‚ June 20). Fracfocus.org. Retrieved from http://fracfocus
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Fracking is an oil well process that requires someone to inject water under high pressure into a bedrock formation. It has a few different names like hydrofracking‚ hydrofracturing and hydraulic fracturing. It is used to increase oil flow to a well from petroleum-bearing rock formations that is seeing increasing use across the country. Oil was originally refined for lubrication‚ heating and lighting products. Automobiles did not exist yet so the by product calledgasoline was dumpedinto lakes‚ rivers
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What Is Fracking and Why Is It Controversial? 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. Hydraulic fracturing is the most popular method of exploitation of gas and oil from shale formations. After discovering hydraulic fracturing it has become possible at all production of hydrocarbons from unconventional deposits. Despite the many advantages of hydraulic fracturing raises a
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