Fracking is bad for the environment. People still need natural gas or oil to live their life. It will take time to get all of the bugs worked out of fracking. Fracking companies are using the new technology to insure the protection of the environment. Fracking is a cheaper way of obtaining gas.
The last time the Federal Government has passed any law affecting fracking was in 1988, before many modern techniques have been adopted [ (Bergeron, 2011) ]. Fracking, although very beneficial and the best process of attaining natural gas, is just too dangerous. The U.S. government is still debating this controversial topic, and very likely will be for many months to come. Safety is very important to maintaining a strong and efficient country; the maintenance of this goal should not be difficult with government regulation of fracking locations. It is very simple - the United States Federal Government needs to take a good hard look at their current regulation on U.S. fracking locations for the safety of our American
Along with a possibility of creating a large job market here in the U.S. with upwards of 600,000 people needing to operate this endeavor, we could take back our economy. The con for this is that it is still too new for us to determine what it can do to the land around where the fracking is taking place. There have been reports of water contamination as well as earthquakes due to displacing tectonic plates. There needs to be a more conclusive study done in order to determine whether or not oil and gas companies should be allowed to engage in fracking. At this time, I could not conclusively say yes or no to allowing fracking in the U.S. 2.
Do You Know What You’re Drinking? How Fracking Pollutes Our Water, and How We Can Stop it Energy fuels are becoming harder to find in recent years. We now mostly depend on foreign oil from our enemies in the Middle East. Scientists are trying to come up with alternatives to oil and coal, and have come up with a controversial solution. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a method of harnessing energy by drilling beneath the surface and releasing gas from shale rocks.
(Williamson). Colorado’s gas regulator took the unusual step of releasing a public debunking of Gasland’s claim that fracking is responsible for the flaming faucets. (1) There’s other stuff in that fracking slurry, too, but really nothing that isn’t considered run of the mill industrial chemicals (those friction-reducers use a polymer that also is used in children’s toys, for example). And these chemicals aren’t injected until the pipes have run more than a mile beneath the surface of the earth, and then it’s being injected 4 or 5 Empire State Buildings deeper than the aquifer, separated by impermeable rock. Fracking couldn’t occur through that if engineers tried.
Eaarth Chapters 1 & 2 We’ve changed the planet. Global warming is no longer philosophical or future threat but instead a current and very real threat. The changes made to our planet are more evident in the toughest parts of the planet, and climate change is wrecking the lives of thousands daily. We need to consider the world we’ve created and how to live in it. We need to figure out what part of our lives we must forego and what ideologies we must abandon so that we can protect our societies and our civilizations.
The 21st Century Energy Boom: An In-depth Analysis of the Benefits of Hydraulic Fracking The controversy of hydraulic fracking is mainly funded by energy corporations and environmental organizations, with the government slowly encroaching after public outcry. With the bias of pro-fracking from energy companies wanting to make money from newly found American natural gas prospects and the anti-fracking claims from environmentalist who are against drilling or operations on American soil wanting very restricting regulations on fracking that would make the process cost more and thus not have the economic benefits that are present now. Through the use of several databases, I have found several different articles that strengthen both sides of
Economic Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing Microeconomics Abstract This paper will present several sides of the issue of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for natural gas mining. It will highlight the need for a continued energy resource, address issues regarding the environment and look at the economic impact and future potential. So far the practice has been driven more by profits in natural gas than concern for its environmental impact. The fracking process has seen a significant boom in recent years, but has not been matched by significant regulations. The impacts on the environment, human health and the ecosystem are all areas that require well-thought, ethical decisions.
They believe if they don’t police the world and give aid in certain disasters they will be seen as tyrants and turned against by foreign nations, and it is a well-known fact that the US cannot survive without foreign supplies, especially with its constantly failing economy. One of the main foreign supplies the US depends on is oil. We can relate many of our foreign to our need of oil and right now our foreign oil is below 50 percent and our government is beginning to realize just how deep our foreign dependency is (debate). Foreign oil is the reason we went into the war in Iraq (debate). If we didn’t enter the war in Iraq we would have taken a major dip in foreign oil, and we are already running low (politifact).
A Fracking Problem Drill, baby, drill, has been the mantra behind the ever-present need to find cheaper, more efficient energy. The most recent solution to our energy dilemma has been hydraulic fracturing, a process that may be causing more harm then benefit. While the natural gas produced from fracking, as the practice is nicknamed, is a cleaner alternative to both coal and oil, it still releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere promising no relief from the dangers of climate change. In addition to the climate change issue, the process of fracking is being investigated for claims of methane contamination of groundwater sources and possible negative geological effects, including human-induced earthquakes. The dangers