Paul Vu Reusser ENGL Comp 1113 8AM 23 June, 2014 Environmental Danger Have you ever wondered how some oil companies get natural gas? There are numerous ways to obtain oil from the ground. Most people require natural gas in their everyday life. It has become more common, cheaper, and cleaner energy source. One of the ways to get it is called fracking.
Bobby Carl Neal Peters English 102 26 April 2012 What a Fracking Opportunity The United States has an energy problem. We are dependent on Petro-dictators for the energy needed to fuel our economy. But recently, due to a new technology called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, new estimates of accessible natural gas reserves have increased dramatically. Used throughout the United States and worldwide, this process has profitably unlocked Trillions (emphasis added) of cubic feet of natural gas here at home in just the past few years. Concern about this new technology spans the political divide.
Explain why oil exploration in the areas shown could lead to high economic and environmental costs (10) Oil exploration is the extraction of petroleum from reservoirs underground and using the substance to benefit people. For example using it for transport and industry. However continuous exploitation can lead to costs, which can be both economic and environmental. Figure 1 shows that Canada is a location that is currently exploiting oil, 170 billion barrels per year. With Canada being second to Saudi Arabia to have the largest stores of oil in the country, it can provide large amounts of oil without the need to dig large mines to get to it.
Throughout Appalachia this process has been occurring, and has lead to outrage among many people across these areas, and even the nation. This type of mining has been in effect for years, and has been effective in retrieving large amounts of coal, that is used to power our nation. While coal is a necessary source of energy in the United States, opponents of this technique argue that there are many negatives to mountaintop removal. These negatives include the destroying of ecosystems, the pollution of the nearby streams and rivers, pollution of the air, numerous health affects, and of course the
Not only will the massive amounts oil produced from this area have an effect, it is estimated to create anywhere from 250,000-735,000 jobs. Just for a reference as to how much this will boost the economy, since 1977 the North Slope oil development has pumped 500 billion dollars back into the economy. This is now slowly running out of resources considering it reached its peak production in 1980; however to continue boosting the economy more exploration needs to be done. (source 2) Action needs to be taken immediately because from the date of approval to exploration it takes anywhere from 7-12 years until the first barrel of oil is recovered. (Source 1/3) The 16 billion barrels of oil that lie untapped there would be more than enough to replace the oil Americans would purchase from Iraq for over 58 years.
For my speech, I chose to talk about the Marcellus Shale drilling. A few of you may not know what Marcellus Shale drilling is. So first I will explain exactly what it is and how it all started. Then I will talk about how big of a problem all the drilling is that they are doing and how it affects everyone. First, what is Marcellus shale.
Although we may be able to sustain a planet with some kind of civilization, the earth that we knew is gone. Oil and fossil fuels are attributed to manual labor and why we are prosperous and why our economies have grown. It is also why we have global warming and acid oceans. Rising temperatures and depleting oil reserves go hand in hand. Modernity may cease with global warming as half the biggest companies are oil companies, and oil is the essence of life.
If creating pipelines that stretched out more than 2,000 miles could be done in a snap of a finger, then not much of funding from outside sources would be needed. But this world does not live on magic fairy dust, it requires hard working employees to drill, bolt, heat-rod, measure, design, and construct this pipeline transport. This pipeline construction will give thousands of jobs to our economy that desperately need them, because jobs fuel money to the economy. There are still arguments about the keystone pipeline, even though it would bring the economy’s revenue elevate and provide surmount of energy for a long period of
Do You Know What You’re Drinking? How Fracking Pollutes Our Water, and How We Can Stop it Energy fuels are becoming harder to find in recent years. We now mostly depend on foreign oil from our enemies in the Middle East. Scientists are trying to come up with alternatives to oil and coal, and have come up with a controversial solution. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a method of harnessing energy by drilling beneath the surface and releasing gas from shale rocks.
A Fracking Problem Drill, baby, drill, has been the mantra behind the ever-present need to find cheaper, more efficient energy. The most recent solution to our energy dilemma has been hydraulic fracturing, a process that may be causing more harm then benefit. While the natural gas produced from fracking, as the practice is nicknamed, is a cleaner alternative to both coal and oil, it still releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere promising no relief from the dangers of climate change. In addition to the climate change issue, the process of fracking is being investigated for claims of methane contamination of groundwater sources and possible negative geological effects, including human-induced earthquakes. The dangers