The methane concentration is seventeen percent higher in the drinking water near sites where fracking is performed. The water is used by near by cities and towns. This water has been seen to cause sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage to those who are exposed to it. The chemicals used in the mixture are chemicals known to cause cancer. Fracking is also hard on the environment.
In South Africa water is used out to its limit, the pollution comes from traffic associated with crude oil transport from the Arabian Gulf which is contaminated from tanks that spill oil. Some ways we pollute the Everglades, is because of some of the stuff that goes down the drains. Most of the stuff goes into a lake, pond, or canal, most these are connected to the ocean and Everglades. We have to watch what we let go down the drains, such as chemicals, and trash. I think if we make a way where trash that goes down a drain can be separated from the water and goes into another drain leading to a dump.
The extended holding of the waste fluid in the pits could lead to their seepage into the ground, especially if the pits are not lined with plastic. This contaminates the water sources around. In addition, any overflows, for instance caused by heavy rains, allows the fluid to contaminate water in the sources. Large volumes of fluid is required (thousands of gallons of water is used per well) and its disposal is an issue too (Schmidt, 2011). Proper disposal methods should be effected to ensure the water aquifers around do not get contaminated.
Environmental Issues surrounding the Canadian Oils sands and the Social Impact on Canadian Citizens Joe McNamara 4540639 GEOG 2P50 There is dirty business going on in Western Canada. An enterprise with severe ecological and social impacts has become a staple in the Canadian economy at the price of our lush prairie environment. We are susceptible to influences based on our physical environment and a landscape devastated by industry cries out for retribution and redemption. Canadian oil sands span across “715 km2 of boreal landscape”; this entire area has been destroyed for the ability to retrieve this precious resource (Raab & Bayley, 2013, p. 97). Oil sands are “a mix of sand, water,
“While [hydraulic fracturing] can help provide energy for America's future, it also poses a new dangerous threat to wildlife and the environment. Toxic chemicals are used during fracking that can infiltrate and contaminate habitat, waterways, and even the drinking water that people and wildlife depend on” (1996-2013). Evidently, “some opponents of oil and natural gas production claim that fracking has serious environmental consequences. The truth is, while all development has challenges, hydraulic fracturing technology has a strong environmental track record and is employed under close supervision by state, local and federal regulators. Studies by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) have confirmed no direct link between hydraulic fracturing operations and groundwater contamination.
SPINDLETOP OILFIELD. The Spindletop oilfield, discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County on January 10, 1901, marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry. The Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company, formed in August 1892 by George W. O'Brien, George W. Carroll, Pattillo Higgins, Emma E. John, and J. F. Lanier, was the first company to drill on Spindletop Hill. Three shallow attempts, beginning in 1893 and using cable-tool drilling equipment were unsuccessful; Lanier and Higgins had left the company by 1895. Anthony F. Lucas, the leading United States expert on salt dome formations, made a lease with the Gladys City Company in 1899.
As a result, many trucks have to travel to and fro the mining site to supply the water and other amenities causing dust pollution and soil erosion on the dirt roads. Chemicals used in the fracking process are able to sip through cracks in the rocks and the soil and contaminate any water sources they meet. This water finds its way into the community or cities. When consumed, these chemicals can lead to cancer, defects in newly-born babies and disorders in the nervous system. Large amounts of methane and other poisonous gases released into the air from the gas wells contribute to heavy air pollution and global warming.
It contributes roughly 30% of the world's sum of coal each year. Australia's coal is marketed all over the world, principally for the Asian economy (44% of Australia's coal is exported to Japan.) Without coal our economy would be devastated. The result would be unemployment, electricity price increases, collapse of consumption,economy and related industries etc, resulting in an entirely new way of life. 1b)Coal is a fossil fuel, which means when it is burnt it releases unwanted pollutants which have a negative and harmful impact on our environment.
Prices in gas have changed how much food cost since the transportation of these goods needs gas. This rising tide has also sent the price of rubber and plastic product soaring. Yet, the biggest problem due to these prices is car sales. Transportation of food in America is mainly by semi-trucks or trains. With the cost of diesel gas almost breaking five and a half dollars per gallon, many companies cannot afford to transport their product.
In Fort Chipewyan cancer related deaths are on the rise, and are 30% more common than in southern Alberta. Growth in the number of people with an extremely rare cancer called the bile duct known to be associated with P.A.H.’s and oil pollution. Oil companies burn enough natural gas every year they can heat 3 million homes(“Crude Awakening”). Oil companies should find a more environmentally friendly ways to perform this action. Oil companies spend around $36 to produce a barrel of oil but a barrel of crude oil sells for about $90.