Oil Fracking In Texas

Although we do not know the long term effects of fracking for natural gas just the short term effects can be seen. We may be jeopardizing our children’s future. It would be more prudent to understand all we can about fracking before it is expanded across the country. Many believe the short term ramifications of fracking is only the beginning of a devastating destruction of our

Fracking involves drilling a hole into the ground and injecting a combination of fluids and chemicals into the shale. The fracking fluid contains upwards of 600 different chemicals (David). The pressure of the fluid is what causes the shale to fracture, then releases natural gas. That fracking fluid is what is really dangerous, as this is what poses the biggest threat, since many of those chemicals are extremely dangerous and some are completely unknown by the public. After the fracking process is complete, the fracking water, known as flowback, which includes water, chemicals and additives, is either collected and transferred to holding-tanks or it is injected back into the ground for storage

With rising gas prices and an increasing reliance on nonrenewable resources, finding a reliable source for extracting and transporting oil has become an issue. In 2010, the Keystone Pipeline project was proposed and commissioned by TransCanada. Essentially, this is a pipeline that transports oil sands bitumen across the Canada-US border and into several different reserves in the States. An additional extension to the Keystone Pipeline, the Keystone XL Pipeline, has also been proposed. Several issues arise when considering the consequences of this new proposal, including the potential for oil spills and habitat damage.

McAleer also found written accounts of flammable well water far before fracking began in 1947. When asked why this information was omitted from GasLand, Josh Fox says it is not relevant. He is, however, mistaken. These facts are not only relevant, but their omission makes Josh Fox an even more unreliable

SUMMARY Journalist, Nick Stockton, in the article, “Fracking’s Problems Go Deeper Than Water Pollution,” published in June 2015, addresses the topic of hydraulic fracturing and argues that fracking has more negative consequences than one might think. Stockton supports his claim first by appealing emotionally through a short summary of a recent event involving fracking and also by utilizing evidence to back up his statements. The author’s overall purpose is to highlight outcomes of fracking in order to make more people aware of issues that can arise from this common way of obtaining energy. Stockton utilizes a scientific, yet critical tone in order to create an unbiased article and appeal to his audience’s concern for the well being of the

Although it 's not just critics that are worried about chemicals leaking, farmer near a fracking well are concerned that their animals will be exposed to these deadly chemicals and, the chemicals will kill their crops. In a recent estimate, 5.5 billion gallons of water are needed each year in just

This is Keirstan, I was wondering if we could put this in as an editorial. Fracking is something that everyone needs to be aware of. There are pros in fracking, but their are also several cons. Fracking is when an oil company 's leases your land, then they start to drill holes in the ground. In those holes they put 596+ chemicals, they do this to get to the natural gas out of the ground.

Oil fracking has caused a lot of controversy the last couple years. Many believe that it is causing more harm than good. The House Committee of Natural Recourses had an entire meeting discussing oil fracking on federal managed and Native Lands. It also uses an incredible amount of water and chemicals.

Fracking: The Fracturing of America (Introduction) Shaking wakes you up during the middle of the night. You open your eyes to scan the entire room searching for someone. No one to be found. The shaking continues and it grows stronger.

The waste water from fracking is injected back into the ground, or sent to water treatment facilities before being deposited into rivers, causing many to wonder if our groundwater is being contaminated in the process. US News interviewed Radisav Vidic, author of a study on the impacts of shale on water quality. He noted that while scientists currently do not have enough information to point to fracking as a definite cause of water pollution, there is no way to determine if our current water quality monitoring systems are accurate enough to pick up pollution levels. Meaning, our health could be at stake and we wouldn’t know

The way hydraulic fracturing is affecting the environment is too harmful for it to be a sustainable option. It contaminates drinking water, turns unused lands into industrial dumps. They pollute the air and with global warming emissions and create earthquakes. People’s right to clean water is being compromised by fracking industries, not being careful enough and their lack of regulations enforced on them. There are numerous occasions in

Texas Oil Boom The Texas oil boom, also known as “The Gusher,” was one of the most exciting moments of the 1900s. According to The History Channel ``One of the negative effects about the oil boom is drilling the oil makes a bad impact on the wildlife around it.” The texas oil boom had a lot of great traits to it, like how taxes from it were going to educate underprivileged kids, but not all traits were great. You see while all the oil was fantastic, drilling it from the earth is very harmful to the wildlife around the sight. The boom made soils erode, contaminated waters and not to mention the visable destruction it did.

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas (what is). This new and booming form of extracting natural gasses from shale rock is sweeping the nation in controversy. Fracking has many issues, those for it claim it has large economic benefits while remaining environmentally safe. Those against claim it does in fact effect our environment, The debate over fracking and its recent boom indicate a need for better understanding of the effects of Hydraulic Fracking.

Thesis statement The benefits of natural gas hydraulic fracking do not justify the adverse effects it causes through continuous earthquakes, pollution of the water table, or potential health hazards to human populations. This subject is interesting to me because I work for a natural gas company. I have had many conversations with other employees regarding natural gas fracking, and most of them are biased to the views of the drilling companies which means they do not see any harm in it. There also used to be companies fracking for natural gas in Arkansas on the Fayetteville Shell. The number of small earthquakes did rise (3.0 or smaller), but there was nothing resulting in a large amount of devastation.

The article Gasland Debunked and the documentary “Gasland” discuss the very controversial topic of “fracking.” According to the beliefs of Josh Fox, fracking is extremely dangerous to the environment and the Earth’s groundwater supply. Contrary to this, the article Gasland Debunking claims that Fox is trying to portray untrue words as facts. In the article Gasland Debunked, there are many pros to how the article was written.