evidence to support my thesis will be to give examples of equipment failure that has lead to spills during hydraulic fracking. Hear I will show evidence that equipment failure is one of the leading causes of spills. I will show that future spills can be greatly reduced with strict regulations on what equipment is used. This will show that spills are not necessarily inherent to the fracking process‚ but is the result of bad regulations regarding equipment. Evidence to support this argument will come
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pose a threat either underground or when waste fluids are handled and sometimes spilled on the surface. The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing‚ better known as fracking‚ as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle‚ president of the Institute for Energy Research‚ a pro-industry non-profit organization‚ claims fracking has been “a widely deployed as safe extraction technique‚” dating back to 1949. What he doesn’t say is that until recently energy companies had used low-pressure methods to extract
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Gianpaolo Uribe Mrs. Holt English 2 Honors 13 November 2014 Hydraulic Fracking in the United States Throughout the great American novel economic growth has been successfully cultivated by a wave of innovation‚ fueled by technological revolution while aided by a functional economic agenda and a healthy financial sector. Inventions like the steam engine‚ cotton gin‚ telegraph‚ assembly line‚ and the internet. These have all led to incredible economic growth and have created and revolutionized entire
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Department of Environmental Protection‚ hydraulic fracturing‚ also called fracking‚ from oil and gas operations has damaged Pennsylvania’s water supplies 209 times between 2008 and 2014. Some in Bradford County‚ PA are drinking methane-filled water that can be lit on fire with one flick on a lighter. Why is fracking allowed if it endangers people’s health and the environment? One major reason is the positive impacts fracking has on the economy. Counties in Pennsylvania that have natural gas wells
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reviewing all the documents including the one in Middlefield I found it odd that Act 13 clearly violates the Pennsylvania constitution and makes it impossible to carry out the responsibilities of elected office. In New York there was an attempt to ban fracking but given the evidence from legislation they were not violating any laws and they do not frustrate the state’s interest in regulating the method and manner. The study focuses on shale gas exploration‚ because shale gas is the type of unconventional
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By creating higher standards for cars‚ the government forced carmakers to innovate and create cleaner cars. At a federal level‚ the EPA could do more to encourage safer extraction of unconventional fuels‚ such as fracking. Currently‚ there does not exist enough regulation on fracking‚ leading to possible serious environmental implications‚ and the encouragement of continuing the extraction of dirty fuels . By increasing regulation‚ the government could save environmental resources through internalizing
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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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Introduction: Hydraulic fracturing‚ which is more commonly known as fracking‚ is a process where a large volume of water mixed with other chemicals and components is injected into the ground at a high pressure. This causes cracks or fissures to form which releases the natural gases into wells that have been built for collection as (shown in figure 1). Figure 1 This process is currently being debated within South Africa‚ where companies such as Shell and Chevron are suggesting that this process
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Analysis of the Economic & Environmental Effects of Fracking Introduction Fracking‚ or hydraulic fracturing‚ is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock. Fracking allows the world to retain natural gas from depths that were deemed unreachable by conventional technology. Recent advancements in Fracking technology have propelled America to the forefront of natural gas extraction. By this method‚ the shale rock is punctured with a high pressure fluid‚ causing it to rupture and
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April 8‚ 2012 Dear Senator Greg Ball‚ The current practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) began in America in the late 1990‘s and has been wreaking havoc on the land and the lives of the American people since. In case you are unaware‚ fracking is the process well diggers use to extract natural gas and oil from the earth. They use pressurized mixture of water‚ sand‚ and chemicals to form veins (or fractures) in the rock in order for the natural gas or oil to escape. Although this process
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