The Benefits Of Fracking

The oil demand is forecasted to grow 50% by 2025 even though the world supply of it is limited and nonrenewable, what are we as people going to do when we run out? The answer is fracking, more specifically hydraulic fracking. Hydraulic fracking is the process of breaking shale formation by first drilling a hole deep inside the ground and then using high pressure liquids create cracks that release natural gas, an alternative to oil. If we keep going on the rate we use oil right now, we would have shortage; meaning no energy for cars, phones, anything that is powered directly and indirectly by oil and that is almost everything in the 20th Century. Not only we would have shortage in oil but it also leads to higher prices of energy since of quantity

In order for fracking to work, the companies must drill the hole 6,000-10,000 feet, and once done use water to create the fracks. According to dangersoffracking.com, 1-8 millions of gallons water is used to frack. Also the website against fracking did the math; there are 500,000 active fracking wells and assuming that each site use 8 million gallons of water, it is 4,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in total but not including that a fracking site could be fracked more than once. That is a lot water being used, and right now most of the nation is in a drought. It is not the efficient way to spend our water resource since many states like California are in drought warning. The United States cannot keep operating like this since eventually we will run out on our drinking water supply and where would get fresh water. Then there is the possibility of water contamination is high, even when there are safety regulations in place. Based on the information provided by nyagainstfracking.org there are 800 cases where people have been harmed by fracking, and this does not include their landscape or animals that have been affected. Also when it says harmed, it means fracking leads to person’s illness or demise. The way that there can be water contamination is when the companies chemical fluid leaks into the groundwater aquifers that we use to cook, clean, and drink with. This is important because the cost benefit of allowing companies to frack could possible put your life or loved ones in danger; fracking is not worth it. On the other hand companies do recycle the water they use to frack; that point is true but only 20% is recycled while the 80% stays in the hole. The rest could possibly affect the landscape and the environment around it. The marginal benefit does not outweigh the safety of people and water it wastes when we really need