Fracking for Natural Gas—Legal‚ Political‚ Environmental and Ethical Issues Daniela Vega‚ Ebony Daughtry‚ Ericka Koussi‚ Frederick Gibbs & Paul Payway This paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Business Ethics BUS 5933 49 Texas Woman’s University School of Management Professor H. Guy Smith December 9‚ 2012 Table of Contents |Introduction....................................................................................................
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Fracking for Natural Gas In today’s global fight for the growing demand of energy and promotion of saving energy‚ fracking has become very controversial. The dangers to our society and health are at the forefront in conducting safer practices. To obtain the natural gas‚ fracking or hydraulic fracking must be conducted. Hoffman (2015) explained‚ “Hydrofracking is a controversial oil and gas extraction technique developed in the late 1940s to gain access to fossil energy deposits previously inaccessible
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Title Name Subject Date Pros and Cons of Natural Gas Drilling Fossil fuel has a high demand in any country. In this century‚ the innovations in the 21st century enable the country to do exploration and invent other drilling technologies. The drilling technologies make it possible for easy accessibility of the reserves that were previously inaccessible. The Marcellus Shale has a lot of natural gas and this has brought development to the developments in the three states. The developments include
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Fracking The past few days in class we have been learning about the process of fracking and how it is either harmful‚ or useful to our nation. There are numerous arguments for both sides that specify pros and cons for fracking and if fracking should be legal to operate. Fracking is known as hydraulic fracturing with the use of sand‚ water‚ and chemicals that are injected at high pressures to blast open shale rock and release the trapped gas inside. The process of fracking starts with drilling
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1940’s would be hydraulic fracturing‚ otherwise known as fracking. Fracking has been proven to be a lucrative business nearly accounting for more than half of the oil extraction in the US as stated by Source C. While fracking is a useful method of retrieving fossil fuels it can also prove to be detrimental to our everyday lives. The world isn’t blind to the dangers of fracking as many countries in Europe have already taken steps to ban fracking which is stated in Source A. On a global scale this is
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The Pros and Cons of Fracking and Why it Should be Allowed in North Carolina Hydraulic fracking for some is a dream come true. For others‚ it is a nightmare. The act of extracting oil and natural gas from shale rock layers from within the earth has environmentalists pulling out their hair and politicians jumping for joy. The contamination of groundwater‚ air and land is constantly being brought up in debates. The government on the other hand argues that it only causes minimal harm and the benefits
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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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“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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According to Green garage‚ there are many pros and cons of fracking. The pros are that if any shortages are reached in oil or gas‚ fracking can help solve the problem by going deeper into the ground and releasing more than what would normally be obtainable. Another pro‚ is that air toxicity is reduced. In fracking‚ the water and other chemicals are injected down into the ground in cracks in the rock and it then enlarges the crack‚ allowing more gas or oil to be released thus not contaminating the
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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
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