Hydraulic fracturing or more commonly known as “fracking” is an extreme water-intensive process. Fracking uses millions of gallons of water that is mixed with sand and harmful chemicals that is injected into the ground at a high pressure to fracture the surrounding rock. This process was started in the 1860s. It was mainly popular in places like Pennsylvania, New York, Wyoming, and Kentucky. They used liquid and solidified nitroglycerin but later applied the same methods with water and gas to achieve a greater outcome.
Companies involved in this process do not disclose the chemical constituents of their fracturing fluids. Fracturing requires and has the potential to contaminate
This would not be good. It is also not clear how the waste will even get there so there is not point of even making a repository if we are not even going to transport the waste
Benzene has been known to be a carcinogen, while the rest of the chemicals are unknown what long term damage it could cause. Another danger of fracking are spills. Spills occur during the adding of the fluids as well as during the results of the flow back. Drill operators will eventually have spills throughout this process. Hoses can be undone, gaskets can fail, pits leak and liquids always hit the ground, repeatedly in large quantities.
The procedure consists of injecting a special fluid made up of chemicals and sand into the ground at high pressures to squeeze the natural gas back up through the rocks. By injecting this certain fluid we are leaving mercury, lead, hydrochloric acid, methane, and other poisonous chemicals left to rest in our earth’s crust. Studies show that more than 90% of fracking fluids are left underground. Because we are permanently polluting our land we are putting our environment at high risks of becoming destroyed and it is effecting human health. One resource that is at high risk of being contaminated due to fracking is water.
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Some of the major negative economic effects of natural gas drilling are the enormous amounts of pollutants released into our water sources. With estimates coming close to 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas sitting in the Marcellus, it’s no wonder companies are willing to drill at any cost to the local water systems and communities. In other words, there is conservatively two trillion dollars in nature gas reserves sitting right under us. The problem with fracking is being able to find an economical and environmentally friendly way to dispose of the waste water. There are approximately thirteen treatment plants used to deal with the waste water that is accumulated by the massive fracking operations all over the state.
This method was what allowed the large-scale production of oil from the oil sands today. Social Impacts Over 145 thousand people are directly employed in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector, including the oil sands. Alberta’s energy sector accounts for about 28% of Alberta’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). If all these people were to lose their jobs or something else were to happen that would shut down the oil business Alberta would not only lose about $812 million but over 145 thousand people would be unemployed. Other countries, investors and large businesses would lose their investments in oil and gas of the oil sands.
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.
Hydraulic Fracturing: The Inefficient Fuel Source Accoring to Treehugger, hydraulic fracturing requires 80 to 300 tons of chemicals to frack a single oil well. Hydraulic fracturing is the process of extracting shale gas deposited in deep underground wells by injecting water, sand, and disclosed chemicals into the ground at high pressure (Weighing the Risks of Fracking). Fracking is a non-renewable energy source that is very harmful to the environment. Hydraulic fracturing should be discontinued because it harms the environment, it requires a plethora of water, and because it has been linked to causing earthquakes (Jordan Howard). The chemicals that are used in the fracking process aren’t disclosed to the public.