crisis in the future Fracking is a solution to an affordable energy supply to the world UK’s future energy crisis due to low gas storage and rely heavy on import. Exploring the hidden potential for natural gas around the world Many countries such as China‚ Australia‚ France‚ etc. have vast shale formation and potential for hydro-fracking natural gas. China has estimate 1‚275 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable gas compared to 862 trillion cubic
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humanitarian pressure. Presently‚ the vast majority of our energy consumption is provided by coal or natural gas‚ but due to the limited supply of resources‚ the constant production has driven oil and gas prices up. With exhausted traditional natural gas sources‚ entrepreneurs set out to
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• Each gas well requires an average of 400 tanker trucks to carry water and supplies to and from the site • It takes 1-8 million gallons of water to complete each fracturing job • The water brought in is mixed with sand and chemicals to create fracking fluid. Approximately 40‚000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing. • Up to 600 chemicals are used in fracking fluid‚ including known carcinogens and toxins such as… lead‚ uranium‚ mercury‚ ethylene glycol‚ radium‚ methanol‚ hydrochloric acid
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The Fracking Controversy A controversial new method of extracting natural gas from the earth has become a danger for Americans. This method is called Hydraulic Fracturing‚ or Fracking. This drilling has made it possible to retrieve methane gas trapped in the shale rock that lays thousands of feet below the ground. For some‚ fracking can be seen as a good thing for our country. Fracking is boosting the nation’s economy‚ creating jobs and energy export opportunities‚ and strengthening the energy
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ASSIGNMENT TWO: ARTICLE SYNOPSIS EPA on fracking: “we can only do so much” DuBois‚ S. (2010‚ September 17). EPA on fracking: “we can only do so much”. CNN money.com. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/16/news/fracking_EPA.fortune/index.htm 1. Summary Due to the raised concerns with hydraulic fracturing fluid polluting the ground water the state regulation board of New York has elected to elevate the issue of concern to the EPA. With this shift of regulating authority‚ opponents
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Communications 1 January 29th‚ 2013 The Harmful Effects of “Fracking” The practice of extracting oil from deep underground rock by injecting it with acid is called hydraulic fracturing‚ or “fracking.” The process involves drilling a vertical tunnel‚ sometimes thousands of feet under the earth’s surface‚ until oil or natural gas is found. Next‚ horizontal tunnels are created to pump in water containing erosive chemicals. Fracking is banned in many countries‚ because of the potentially severe
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Fracking Introduction Fracking (hydraulic fracturing)‚ a simple but revolutionary process‚ has changed the way of collecting natural resources after the propitious success in 1947. By injecting water‚ sand‚ and toxic chemical such as mercury and lead with high pressure into a wellbore‚ fractures smaller than 1mm will be created and a vast amount of formerly inaccessible hydrocarbon are now available for use and thus brought “U.S. to become one of the world ’s top three oil producers”(Garder‚ US
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that you do comes with an obstacle. But‚ fracking also has many benefits. According to the websites‚ ¨http://www.what-is-fracking.com ‚¨ ¨http://www.solarschools.net ‚¨ and ¨https://energyindepth.org .¨ Each of these websites explain what benefits there are to fracking. Many people think that it harms our environment‚ but with new rules and laws companies are all able to create more jobs‚ lower the price of gas‚ and making it renewable‚ this is why fracking is saving our environment‚ and our lives
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#00574612 Summary-Response Paragraph Applied Critical Thinking Date: 10/03/13 Final Draft Fuel Fight Summary (Part I) The article “Fuel Fight” (Adams‚ 2012) stated that fracking is a new technology that can get access to the new energy resource. It has many advantages for the U.S. but some organizations disagree with fracking project. The author mentioned that a lot of energy‚ which is being used in the U.S.‚ is imported from many countries all over the world. For example‚ Canada‚ Mexico and Venezuela
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chemical gas? The most likely reason for both of these effects is fracking. Hydraulic fracturing‚ as known as fracking‚ is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside (Dong). According to many recent research studies fracking is very harmful to the environment and shouldn’t be done here in Coppell‚ but how so? You need to understand the fracturing fluid that is used for fracking. The fluid
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