Hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking)‚ a way of obtaining natural gas that is used today‚ may cause cancer and may speed up global warming’s. Fracking injects a mix of water‚ "chemicals‚ sand‚ and other materials into layers of shale‚ a type of rock" (Source 1). The injection flows down a pipe that is going through the shale. To obtain the natural gas‚ the pressure in the pipe causes the rock around the pipe to crack‚ allowing natural gas to escape. Then‚ the gas flows up the well and is collected
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Fracking-pros and cons Fracking has become a hotly debated issue across the United States. Fracking industry leaders highlight the benefits of Fracking. Health officials are concerned with the lack of long term use of chemicals in Fracking. Environmental groups protest the lack of regulations and the effects Fracking will have on the environment. Fracking‚ or Hydraulic fracturing is the process of breaking up shale underneath the earth’s surface to extract natural gas supplies
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serious damage. These earthquakes are caused by horizontal hydraulic fracking‚ which is used to get oil and natural gas out of the earth.Until we can make sure that fracking is safe we should ban it. Fracking has a negative effect on the environment. Fracking turns natural environment into pads‚roads pipelines and other infrastructures.The clearance in Pennsylvania of forest have lead to an increase of pollution.(“The Cost of Fracking”).To Chesapeake bay which suffers from nutrient generated dead zone
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Hydraulic Fracturing “Fracking‚” or hydraulic fracturing‚ is a controversial technology that was originally developed over 60 years ago. It allows us to obtain oil and hydrocarbons from otherwise inaccessible underground locations by drilling thousands of feet into the Earth and intentionally fracturing the shale. The oils and hydrocarbons are collected and then refined into pipeline quality natural gas. Natural gas is cleaner‚ more reliable‚ and more abundant than other fossil fuels. In recent
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also known as fracking. Either people think it’s great or they hate it. Before you have an opinion on it‚ what exactly is this “fracking?” “Fracking‚ or hydraulic fracturing‚ is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers from deep within the earth… Horizontal drilling (along with traditional vertical drilling) allows for the injection of highly pressurized fracking fluids into the shale
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The use of hydraulic fracking has been around since the 1940’s to extract small batches of natural gas. It was not until 2003 that the fracking process started extracting large quantities of natural gas and oil. Today‚ there is major controversy over the idea that hydraulic fracturing may or may not be harmful to the earth. One side says it is safe to use hydraulic fracking‚ others state that it is dangerous to society. Many people believe fracking is harmful to the environment because it pollutes
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Analysis of CSR in a case of "Gazprom" 3.1. A Brief presentation of the company and Russian CSR concept The trend of taking into consideration the elements of CSR in Russia could be compared with the Soviet times‚ when all the companies tried to establish only the CSR programs in a social and cultural environment. The Russian companies see CSR programs focusing only on the group of stakeholders and especially on internal environment-on the workers and mostly all the companies follow as
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The Problem With Fracking Fracking is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water‚ sand‚ and chemicals under hi pressure into a well‚ cracking the rock to release natural gases and oil. It is beginning to become scientifically linked to creating earthquakes by aggravating the faults. But before we talk about how it is causing earthquakes‚ we must first go into detail on the complete process of fracking. Fracking site drills 6000ft through aquifer toward shell – then drill horizontally
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of this paper is to establish how the fracking processes of salt water disposal (SWD) and earthquakes are connected in Oklahoma. There has been previous examinations that has illustrated operations such as fracking sites throughout Oklahoma that were capable of producing a small quantity of earthquakes‚ however until now scientists were unable to find a definite connection between the high rate water injection sites and the much stronger earthquakes. Fracking also known as Hydraulic Fracturing is
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“Fracking” Hydraulic fracturing‚ also known as fracking‚ is the process of injecting a combination of sand‚ water‚ and chemicals with very high pressure into deep rock formations such as coal beds‚ shale‚ and tight sandstone to break up the rocks and release natural gas‚ an affordable energy source that helps to meet the continuously growing need of the world for power. This procedure has been being performed for decades ultimately causing some controversy about the benefits vs. the dangers
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