reputation or will they immediately be rejected by the community? Companies produce millions of gallons of salty‚ chemical-infused wastewater‚ known as brine‚ as part of drilling and fracking each well. Drillers are supposed to inject this material thousands of feet underground into disposal wells‚ but some of it isn’t making it that
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chemicals are mixed and lists many of them that are hard to pronounce‚ are unknown or are known as carcinogens. He uses the amount of water‚ between one to seven million gallons‚ used to drill each well to shock the viewer. Fox shows the math which amounts to forty trillion gallons of water used so far on wells. All of these facts help to strengthen Fox’s argument‚ demonstrating knowledge and helping to create an impressive picture for the audience. The description of the process is only a start to providing
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Hydraulic fracturing is when a hole or "well" is drilled deep into the ground‚ in an effort to extract valuable natural gas reserves which exist beneath the surface. The process of constructing a hydraulic fracturing well includes drilling into the Earth--first vertically and then horizontally‚ then lining the well with a two-terminal tube with one terminal that is filled with water while the other pipes the recovered natural gases up above ground (Withgott & Laposata‚ 2014). In order to exhume the
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most influential events in all of oil history occurred in Beaumont‚ Texas. The Texas Oil Company‚ now known as Texaco‚ struck oil at a salt dome in southern Beaumont Texas. This was the biggest amount of oil the world had ever seen at the time. These wells on Spindletop would change the way we drilled‚ collected‚ used‚ and sold oil. Spindletop even raised concerns about conserving the oil. This gusher would change the way oil was drilled‚ collected‚ used and sold. The Spindletop oil field produced more
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BP ’s Management Crisis The Frontline report‚ “The Spill”‚ which focused on British Petroleum ’s problematic management culture and its catastrophic effects‚ aired on October 26‚ 2010. Around then‚ the oil giant BP had suffered a crisis with its latest off-shore oil rig‚ the Deepwater Horizon. However‚ this was just the latest in accidents concerning its oil operations. In the years before the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP had also suffered major accidents in its oil production fields in Texas
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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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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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seem so bad‚ but the chemicals that make up the other 0.5% could possibly be deadly. A few of the chemicals used are household items like sodium chloride‚ guar gum‚ and borate salt(Dong). Fracking requires up to 5 million gallons of water per well and perhaps even more in which case‚ the tons of water used would create a huge demand of local water supplies (Dong). Unlike agriculture or domestic water uses‚ gas drilling does not return the used water back into in the ground (Myers). The water
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The use of hydraulic fracking has been around since the 1940’s to extract small batches of natural gas. It was not until 2003 that the fracking process started extracting large quantities of natural gas and oil. Today‚ there is major controversy over the idea that hydraulic fracturing may or may not be harmful to the earth. One side says it is safe to use hydraulic fracking‚ others state that it is dangerous to society. Many people believe fracking is harmful to the environment because it pollutes
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