Fracking is also known to generate methane, but it is not clear how much. Reports about the leakage rates have ranged from 1.7% to 7.9% of total gas produced. Although that seems small, after a couple of years or so these figures will make a big difference and damage our environment. Our own government is polluting our Earth. Furthermore, US scientists have found that ground and surface water are contaminated during accidental spills and leaks.
According to the investigation report by the U.S. Coast Guard and Ocean Energy Authority, the cement for reinforcing the oil well was the main reason for this disaster. Also, the Macondo well already had financial problems and the monitoring devices appeared abnormal. Indeed, the negative growth in the past meant that the company was seeking money badly. Halliburton and possibly BP decided not to wait for cement stability test results and poorly redesigned the cement mixture. The crisis was caused by their decision, because they underestimated the risk that they might have.
James Doher Informative Speech Outline Proposition: To persuade the audience to oppose offshore oil drilling. Intro: Oil and gas are a necessity to everyday life; however, there are safer ways to extrude these chemicals than what has been done in the past. Stop offshore oil drilling or make it safer for the environment. There are many other ways to obtain oil without harming the environment. Where were you April 22, 2010-Earth Day, just 2 days after the BP oil spill, and how did you help sustain the Earth?
Also drillers are not regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, or the Clean Air Act. Hydraulic fracturing may contaminate large bodies of water. This water may be used for drinking, bathing, cooking, and other uses that are environmentally. This may cause legal issues to rise because it damages the environment. Companies may try to make a legal issue out of Hydraulic fracturing as well as the general public.
CADMIUM POLLUTION AND ANTHROPOLOGY by Courtney Van Gemert Cadmium toxixicity is of great concern to the world anthropologically. Cadmium is an element existing naturally in minute concentrations across terrestrial and marine environments, but greater excess levels observed are almost entirely anthropogenically introduced. Though cadmium has favorable chemical and physical properties conducive to wide use in special alloys, stabilizers, in rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, and as a control rod material in nuclear reactors, it is a toxic heavy metal of increasing environmental concern due to its wide variety of adverse effects [1]. Cadmium is harmful to various organs, from kidneys to the central nervous system in vertebrates, including humans. In fish, neurological functions, intermediary metabolism, antioxidant activity, epithelial transport, and other physiological and biochemical systems are damaged by cadmium [2].All of these harmful bioinorganic effects are largely due to occupational or environmental exposure to in-excess levels of cadmium through inhalation or ingestion of fine air particulates and consumption of cadmium-exposed plants, animals, or water.
3). This is because the radiation level and hazardous chemicals in air pollution can severely damage a person’s lungs. These side effects can also cause multiple visits to the doctor, weird weather patterns, and in some cases even death (AA, 1) Another government facility, like Camp Pendleton located in southern California, has regulations in place but they’re still a key factor in air pollution from government facilities (Boothe 1). There have been multiple cases in which residents, who live near a burn pit on the facility, have reported severe cardiovascular issues and other serious health issues. Just for clarification, burn pits are the worst cause of air pollution.
This pollution has since affected their health and has resulted into more cancer deaths, miscarriages, defects in births, dying of livestock and the sick fish. The attempts to solve the problem and prosecute those involved have proven futile since the county‘s judicial system is marred by corruption. The company was required to clean up its mess and pay for the damages. The toxic waste dumped in the area is believed to be of an estimate of 18 billion gallons, and its remains are still present to date.The company that took over the ownership from Texaco was later ordered to pay eighteen billion dollars for the damages. This was to act as the reparations for the
The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing On the Environment Dependence on foreign oil has long been a concern of Americans. Therefore many arguments have ensued between officials in charge of finding a solution to that dependence. While those arguing had their heads turned, an entity far more menacing than foreign oil began drilling deep into American soil in an effort to gain access to previously unreachable stores of natural gas contained in the shale beds deep within the Earth. That entity is a government sanctioned method called Hydraulic Fracturing or fracking. While fracking does have the power to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, that process leaves the Earth, air, and water contaminated and inhabitable Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) involves a method of injecting water, sand and chemicals into a drilling site, those chemicals have shown to be hazardous to human health and well- being.
history. Deepwater Horizon was initially diagnosed as a disastrous and fatal accident but the idea of a simple malfunction was quickly rebutted. Questionable similarities to the 2005 tragic Texas City, Texas explosion earned the company a reputation for consistently neglecting safety. While faulty equipment and technical issues ultimately caused the oil spill, it was the company’s operational leadership inadequacies that were further investigated. Safety recommendations from the Texas City report were ignored
Landfill sites on many accounts are blamed for poison of the groundwater supply and other organisms such as local wildlife and even humans. Some landfill sites attempt to find better ways to dispose of their toxins and waste such as burning, however this causes air waste pollution and due to this is not the any better than to keep it in its toxic underground coffins. Although there has been several solutions proposed to find a better alternative for waste disposal none have passed on a scale big enough to make too much of a difference. Though there is a light at the end of the tunnel. St. Lucie County has as of 2006 proposed use of "lighting-like" plasma arcs to vaporize the waste at temperature levels that are hotter than the sun.