Governments are questioning where they should allow fracking and use in to get natural gases. Fracking is the process of breaking of rocks to release natural gases using drills or explosions. The fracking used today is hydraulic fracking which is the same process but uses pressurized water to break the rocks up. In order for the pipes to not get clogged up by bacteria they use chemicals to kill them. Where the natural gas is found is dug up is thousands of feet below the surface of the earth.
Fracking is another source of fuel, decreasing a city’s dependency on foreign oil. Fracking doesn’t cost much because it is produced locally. The amount of jobs in the oil industry has almost doubled due to fracking. However, fracking requires between one and eight million gallons of water for each fracking site. This water contains many hazardous chemicals and can possibly contaminate the environment.
Natural gas is said to be the fuel of the recent future but at this point in time it as a resource that is quickly dwindling. A process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking is being used to access hidden reserves of gas in shale deposits under the ground. The process of fracking isn't new, but is being used more frequently and in more areas as easy-to-access deposits run out. This is where the dispute comes in; is the economic gains of fracking worth the environmental harm it causes? Fracking is too dangerous to risk when finding ways to access natural gas because it can affect water sources, has long lasting effects on the environment, and ruins areas surrounding the well site.
Fracking has become a major issues not only in the United States, but throughout the world. With the recent fracking boom in North America, ranging from south central Canada to Texas, the topic has become more of a controversy. There is a thin line balancing the environmental and economic impact. In the end, fracking adjusts to both sides and should be implemented around the globe. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of sending high pressure fluid mixtures, made up of water, sand, and chemical additives, to created hairline fractures in rocks.
Humans value electricity, we need it for everything from banking to cleaning even doing our homework. Until very recently we relied primarily on coal fired power plants (some places use nuclear and hydroelectric plants), more recently we have moved to cleaner fuel sources like methane. Methane burns cleaner and has little to no hazardous off gassing, the problem lies with how methane is mined. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well.
A controversial engineering issues that has people on both sides fighting for and against it is fracking. Fracking or by its actual name “hydraulic fracturing is a type or drilling that involces safely tapping shale and other tight-rock formations by drilling a mile or more below the surface before gradually turning horizontal and continuing several thousand feet more using high pressured water, sand and chemicals” (BBC UK). The high pressure of the mixture will create small cracks on the surface of the material that they are trying to mine, and the purpose of the sand is to keep the cracks from closing back in so that the pressure of the mixture can bring the material up. The material that is mined through fracking is gas and oil. Fracking on one side of the battle is very important to the US energy because it is allowing us to produce our oil fuel supplies
Fracking is a method of extracting natural gas from the earth. A hole is dug deep into the earth. This hole is one to two miles deep (Life Science). The hole also needs to be encased in some strong material so high elevation ground water doesn’t leak in. Once the hole is fully enclosed, high pressured water is shot deep underground (Life Science).
Since fracking was introduced in 1949, well over 2 million frack treatments have been pumped without a single documented case of treatments polluting a water aquifer (Worstall). This shows that with the correct management and prevention of risks fracking can be seen as a positive. Fracking is also a positive as it dives down gas prices allowing the utilities the American people receive from the gas goes up as they spend less money on it and also fracking has begun to create jobs that are available to Michigan residences. However, many skeptics believe that fracking can be seen as a negative as it pollutes the air and water, thus damaging the Earth. The Earth is already beginning to be negatively impacted by pollution and the burning of greenhouse
In today’s global fight for the growing demand of energy and promotion of saving energy, fracking has become very controversial. The dangers to our society and health are at the forefront in conducting safer practices. To obtain the natural gas, fracking or hydraulic fracking must be conducted. Fracking is defined as blasting high-pressure water, sand, and chemicals deep underground, and allowing the formations to fracture. This practice releases the natural gas out of the formations and is used for power.
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) in Maryland has been banned but was it ever given a chance? Fracking is a common form of drilling for oil and gas, but this form is not practiced in Maryland due to it being banned by state law. Fracking is conducted by shooting water, sand, and chemicals under extremely high pressure, down an oil well to crack apart the rock and release trapped oil and gas. The downfall to this method is that the water has to go somewhere, and it could it end up in drinking water causing the water to become polluted and potently “poisoned”. Governor Hogan signed Maryland’s fracking ban into law on April 4, 2017.
Thanks to the success of U.S. oil companies, which are engaging in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, the United States might soon pass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. U.S. oil production has risen to 7.4 million barrels per day and the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that U.S. production will return to 1970 levels by 2019. In the past five years, the daily oil production in America increased by 3.7 million barrels, which reduced America’s import of oil by 44%. Oil being produced in regions like the Eagle Ford increased from virtually zero to 1.5 million barrels a day thanks to fracking. There are two types of how the U.S gets his oil.
It is important to note that the technology of fracking falls under risk, more specifically a manufactured risk. These concepts of risk are laid out by Ulrich Beck in his book, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, where he defines risk as “a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself (Beck, 1992).” Manufactured risks are risks that we create. In the case of fracking, we have created risk by coming up with the technology that enables us to go through the process of fracking. Beck also points out that risk isn’t static and is changing with changing values and perceptions (Beck, 1992).
Introduction News outlets often use cherry-picked scientific findings as a way to grant credibility to the information they are ‘reporting’, thus making it confusing to the viewer on whether the information is politically motivated or unbiased. Scientists have an invisible halo atop them in mainstream media, and they are frequently cited in regards to important policies that have significant ramifications. It’s common for media outlets and politicians to take research conducted by scientists and display it as a fact without proper context with the intention of misleading, additionally companies also regularly hire ‘scientists’ to justify that it meets proper regulations. A contemporary example of this is the manner in which hydraulic fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking”, is the action of drilling into the Earth and pumping water through in order to extract natural gas. Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed, the natural gas industries have increased production. On the downside, claims of water contamination due to the natural gas drilling began to rise. The issue that many people have had with hydraulic fracturing isn’t just the contamination to our environment, rather people have seen the contamination in the government. The government, since the Energy Policy Act of 2005, does not require the natural gas companies to release the components of their “fracking fluid” that they mix with water that, even after use, isn’t disposed of properly.
What is Fracking? Fracking has been around for many years and will probably continue to exist for a while longer as long as there is no other alternative option that is cheaper than it. Fracking is the process of drilling down and injecting water fluids at a high pressure into the ground in order to shatter rock to release the natural gas up into the surface and so we can extract oil. Fracking is a big deal in the United States in general. There have been many arguments of fracking because it can seriously affect the environment around it.
