Causes Of Hydraulic Fracking
We are a plague of negative energy consumers and we will continue to remove ourselves from the reality of environmental humiliation if it means we can still enjoy our material devices, and our complicated obsession of hurting mother nature. The world’s energy consumption has escalated firmly since the industrial boom of the 1800s and will continue to rise as long as we hold a place on this planet or as long as our planet contains the ability to sustain our humanitarian pressure. Presently, the vast majority of our energy consumption is provided by coal or natural gas, but due to the limited supply of resources, the constant production has driven oil and gas prices up. With exhausted traditional natural gas sources, entrepreneurs set out to
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Because of its harms and mishaps it is creating in the world today, it should be considered to be closed. Hydraulic fracking should be banned because of its contamination of groundwater supplies, risks to the health of public, increased seismic activity, increased atmospheric emissions and the ultimate issue of hurting the Earth.
Hydraulic fracking continues to rise within many states across the U.S., but also banned from other countries also. Since it’s banned in some countries,why, can there be any harms from hydraulic fracking? One of the major causes why the EPA opposes fracking is one of the major issues, contamination of the water. Complaints recently risen about fracking wells, which inject water, sand, and chemicals deep into the ground to extract natural gas, inevitably create a significant runoff into groundwater systems. 40,000 gallons of 600 different kinds of chemicals are used in each fracking well, including formaldehyde, mercury, uranium, and hydrochloric acid. To run all the fracking wells in the United States, it takes 360 billion gallons of harmful chemicals, which some are known and unknown.(Source D) Only 30 to 50 percent of those chemicals are reclaimed, while the rest, left under the ground to rot, not …show more content…
It hasn’t been displayed to the public, for people to know about it, but some seismic activities occurred near fracking sites recently. Frequent earthquakes were an emergent issue, in some states because of fracking. Oklahoma, home to hundreds of fracking sites, now has more earthquake-prone than California, also the fact it’s near the belt. Between 1990 and 2008, Oklahoma had only three earthquakes per year that registered at 3.0 or more on the Richter scale. In 2013, Oklahoma had 109 earthquakes. That number has increased to 238 as of June 2014.(Source D) One quake caused by drilling destroyed 14 homes in Oklahoma City, injuring two families and buckled pavement, which costed many for the state gov. to repair. Additional, persistent quakes will undoubtedly cause more injuries, potential deaths, and damage to infrastructure, costing not only the state government, but also us, the taxpayers millions. Ever since the fracking industry's pushed in wells in Oklahoma, earthquakes has risen. Every devastation counts for the normal civilians to pay extra taxes in order for it to repair. According to USGC, these earthquakes aren’t natural, but induced earthquakes. These earthquakes has risen, not only in Oklahoma, but the main states of fracking, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, and Colorado, they are all at risk. EPA seismologists acknowledge a very clear correlation between fracking and earthquakes, saying
Because of its harms and mishaps it is creating in the world today, it should be considered to be closed. Hydraulic fracking should be banned because of its contamination of groundwater supplies, risks to the health of public, increased seismic activity, increased atmospheric emissions and the ultimate issue of hurting the Earth.
Hydraulic fracking continues to rise within many states across the U.S., but also banned from other countries also. Since it’s banned in some countries,why, can there be any harms from hydraulic fracking? One of the major causes why the EPA opposes fracking is one of the major issues, contamination of the water. Complaints recently risen about fracking wells, which inject water, sand, and chemicals deep into the ground to extract natural gas, inevitably create a significant runoff into groundwater systems. 40,000 gallons of 600 different kinds of chemicals are used in each fracking well, including formaldehyde, mercury, uranium, and hydrochloric acid. To run all the fracking wells in the United States, it takes 360 billion gallons of harmful chemicals, which some are known and unknown.(Source D) Only 30 to 50 percent of those chemicals are reclaimed, while the rest, left under the ground to rot, not …show more content…
It hasn’t been displayed to the public, for people to know about it, but some seismic activities occurred near fracking sites recently. Frequent earthquakes were an emergent issue, in some states because of fracking. Oklahoma, home to hundreds of fracking sites, now has more earthquake-prone than California, also the fact it’s near the belt. Between 1990 and 2008, Oklahoma had only three earthquakes per year that registered at 3.0 or more on the Richter scale. In 2013, Oklahoma had 109 earthquakes. That number has increased to 238 as of June 2014.(Source D) One quake caused by drilling destroyed 14 homes in Oklahoma City, injuring two families and buckled pavement, which costed many for the state gov. to repair. Additional, persistent quakes will undoubtedly cause more injuries, potential deaths, and damage to infrastructure, costing not only the state government, but also us, the taxpayers millions. Ever since the fracking industry's pushed in wells in Oklahoma, earthquakes has risen. Every devastation counts for the normal civilians to pay extra taxes in order for it to repair. According to USGC, these earthquakes aren’t natural, but induced earthquakes. These earthquakes has risen, not only in Oklahoma, but the main states of fracking, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, and Colorado, they are all at risk. EPA seismologists acknowledge a very clear correlation between fracking and earthquakes, saying