Since the 1990’s‚ modern day fracking has been a technique used to extract natural gas from shale‚ tight sandstone and coal beds. This is done first drilling a deep hole into the rock and then injecting a mixture of water‚ sand and chemicals and blasting them into the rock formations under very high pressure. This process produces an abundance of natural gas that could power homes and businesses for many years. Although some people believe that hydraulic fracturing causes environmental harm and costs
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concern grows over the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing‚ implementing policy that protects people and their environment from these potential dangers becomes an essential piece of the renewable energy picture. Hydraulic fracturing‚ or fracking‚ is the technique of extracting oil and natural gas trapped under ground by injecting a mixture of water‚ sand‚ and chemicals into the earth with enough pressure to fracture the rock-bed‚ and allow the oil and gas to be collected [1]. Natural
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been searching for new ways to obtain an alternate source of energy. During the 1940’s‚ Hydraulic fracking (hydrofracking) or horizontal well drilling became the method of choice for obtaining natural gas. According to the 2010‚ report Fueling North America’s Energy
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future‚ but we are relying on them too much and it’s threatening out world. Try to imagine yourself and your life without resources‚ no oil‚ plastic‚ wood‚ etc.‚ what could you survive without? Reading the articles‚ “The Curse of Water Bottles” and “Fracking Threatens Everyone” we see just which resources aren’t completely necessary. Certain resources had a period where they were the rise of mankind‚ but to this day they are the cause of the falling of mankind. For starters‚ looking at “The Curse of
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The environmentalist/anti fracking point of view shown in the documentary “Gasland” is a very informative‚ and important documentary that people everywhere should watch. The narrator‚ Josh Fox offers several valid and intelligent points about the possible dangers of fracking‚ and the many chemicals used in it. However‚ Fox is a very biased narrator‚ and at several points offers invalid evidence. For example‚ Fox attempts to instill fear in the viewer‚ in his controversial scene‚ detailing the many
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Why should fracking be banned? Because liberals are an autoimmune disease that want this country to fail at any possible costs. It shouldn’t be‚ fracking doesn’t do anything with the water‚ studies have proven that‚ plus "Green cars" actually leave a bigger biological footprint. It shouldn’t. Low information people are scared because they are being lied to. Because coal miners don’t like it. Power plant companies are making a transition from coal to natural gas due to fracking‚ and we’re putting
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What’s the Fracking Problem? W hy does everyone care so much about natural gas? Why is it such an essential part of modern culture? Sure‚ it’s an exciting and up and coming technology‚ which is fuel for the technological generation that we’ve grown up in‚ but we need to take a closer look to see the methods and impacts that could affect generations after us. Water is one of our important resources that were given to us by mother nature. We see water as a source for survival and many more advantages
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The central argument of the film is that there is a risk caused by contaminated drinking water from ground water sources which tends to be a result of hydraulic fracking. All water is connected so if an individual or company pollutes an area where the water is‚ the water will inevitably become polluted over time as well. This argument is effective mostly due to the fact that the film showed that the government and large cooperations were getting away with being responsible for causing health concerns
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protection against the gas industry. Hydraulic fracturing is the process by which natural gas is extracted from the earth’s shales. The process begins with drilling through several layers of the earth‚ like the freshwater aquifer. Next‚ water with “fracking fluid” is injected into the drilled area to crack the shale. This water comes back up to the surface and is put into a pit to evaporate. The natural gas flows up‚ and is then stored. The process is simple enough‚ but so are the consequences. Hydraulic
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In “The Fracking Truth‚” Chris Faulkner argues that fracking has almost no consequences. Perhaps the strongest argument that Faulkner gives for this claim relies on three claims that (1) subsurface contamination from fracking is almost impossible‚ (2) low concentrations of any harmful chemicals used in fracking would be negligible and (3) earthquake activity caused by fracking are nearly moderate to small. In this paper‚ I will argue that this argument fails because there are many consequences of
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