Pros And Cons Of Fracking

In the article Fracking for Natural Gas, The Benefits, and the Risk, by Lester Graham, It shows that the list of risk it's much greater than the benefits list. One of the biggest Benefit is the cheap price of Natural gas compared to oil. Also, burning natural gas emits half of CO2 to the environment compared to coal or oil. However, is having more dangerous chemicals in our drinking water and air worth paying cheap for energy? Graham says, "ProPublica reported, fracking, during the drilling process can release cancer-causing chemicals such as benzene and methane during a burst of gas released during the first few days after a well is first tapped, but before production begins". Cancer does not have a cure, so is it reasonable to be releasing chemicals that increase the percentage of getting

Now, with thousands of wells, this water becomes not reusable anymore. And if they don't get rid of this water properly it will contaminate the rest of safe water. Based on the article Pros and Cons of Natural Gas Use, by Aggeliki K. it shortly explains the top pros and cons of natural gas. Here we see that this type of energy is finite. Once is used it cannot be renewable. In other words, obtaining natural gas it's not a long-term solution. Also, it emits Methane to the air which is 21 times much more harmful than CO2. In a Spanish documentary about fracking in Colombia. They explain how Hydraulic Fracturing Companies offered money to the government to let them have spaces to do wells. However, the people in this country got informed on what fracking is and have done protests and till now have not allowed the Natural gas industry start building wells there. They already bought some people in some states in the United States, and the number of wells they have done is already affecting climate