homes and businesses for many years. Although some people believe that hydraulic fracturing causes environmental harm and costs more money than it would save‚ others believe it does little environmental harm and would save consumers a large amount of money and even help boost the economy. One of the major aspects in the fracking debate is whether or not it pollutes the
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commonly known as the Halliburton loophole‚ because it was inserted in the 2005 energy bill at the direction of vice president Dick Cheney‚ former chief executive of Halliburton‚ the company that invented the fracking process. Later‚ in 2011 the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2011 was introduced in both houses of Congress . The Act was supposed to close the Halliburton loophole and amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and regulate fracking. In addition‚ it would mandate the
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Katie Schlagenhaft English 105 Laura Moran 2 December 2014 Fracking in Pennsylvania Hydraulic fracturing‚ also known as fracking‚ is damaging our watersheds and for some of us‚ fracking sites are in our own backyards. The Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a few holes in it‚ as you will see in my research. First‚ we need to understand how fracking works. It is a means of extracting natural gas and oil that lies within a shale rock formation thousands of feet below earth’s surface
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looking for natural gas. It’s a mad scene‚ with hucksters on every side of the issue. There is a lot going on underground and that process is called Fracking. The word alone can stir up controversy. The process of extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking‚” might summon in someone’s imagination an environment and damaged communities. Natural gas hides from sight it is invisible. Perhaps envisioned a prettier picture—one that involves clean-burning fuel‚ job growth and affordable
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Shale can be the source‚ reservoir and the seal for natural gas. Shale formations normally have low permeability (limited ability for gas or fluids to flow easily through the shale formation) and normally require stimulation techniques (such as fracturing) to economically produce shale gas. Shale gas is natural gas that is attached to‚ or "adsorbed" onto‚ organic matter or is contained in thin‚ porous silt or sand beds inter bedded in the shale. In 2000 shale gas provided only 1% of U.S. natural
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Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activitity on the biophysical environment. Environmentalism‚ a socialand environmental movement that started in the 1960s‚ addresses environmental issues through advocacy‚ education and activism. The carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million (NOAA) (with total "long-term" GHG exceeding 455 parts per million). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This level is considered
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the sprinklers‚ and let’s not forget the splashing with the water hose? All because of the dangers and risks you run whenever being in contact with water. Now why would your water be dangerous? Well because there is this thing that we call Hydraulic fracturing‚ or “fracking” for short. Fracking has its advantages but the risks outweigh the benefits. 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. Water
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Public Relations Review 39 (2013) 377–386 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Public Relations Review “Fracking democracy”: Issue management and locus of policy decision-making in the Marcellus Shale gas drilling debate Michael F. Smith a‚∗ ‚ Denise P. Ferguson b a b Department of Communication‚ La Salle University‚ 1900 W. Olney Ave.‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19141‚ United States Department of Communication‚ Pepperdine University‚ 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy‚ Malibu‚ CA 90263‚ United States a r t
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Barack Obama: I am a Colorado citizen who has supported you throughout both of your presidential campaigns. I am writing you to express my concern of hydraulic fracturing. It has become a major issue in Colorado and the United States as a whole and I am troubled for the health and wellbeing of citizens and their animals. Hydraulic fracturing is a danger to air‚ water‚ land‚ animals and communities in the United States. Fracking has a mix of over 596 chemicals and is combined with anywhere between
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faucet on fire‚ that their animals would loose their hair‚ have problems eating and die. The fact that any human being would allow this to be done to other human beings all in the name of money is beyond me‚ but I’ll get into that later. What is hydraulic fracturing anyway? The U.S. contains gas fields that rival the oil fields sizes in Saudi Arabia. Ironically‚ it’s because of fracking that the United States now has enough oil and gas to potentially meet what has been an insatiable need for energy. Fracking
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