If you watched the movie Gasland, you’d blame fracking as the reason residents’ water catches on fire. But the Colorado community featured in the movie has been catching tap water on fire since at least the 1930’s. The Colorado division of water chronicled “troublesome amounts of ….methane” in the water back in 1976. As it turns out, places that have a lot of gas in the ground have a lot of gas in the ground. (Williamson).
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.
The bomb was not humane. In the article “Arguments Against the Bomb” by Michael Barnes, Barnes explains how powerful the atomic bomb is; “Entire families, whole neighborhoods were simply wiped out. The survivors faced radiation sickness, starvation, and crippling mutations”. In this quote, it explains how no human could stand against this bomb. Horrific injuries were inflicted upon everyone in the blast radius, upon women and children, and the lasting effects have still yet to fade.
It involves taking a large drill and digging at least a mile underground. After reaching the desired depth, it is turned sideways and drills horizontally. The drill is removed and then a mixture of millions of gallons of water, sand, and unknown chemicals designed to make the water ‘slippery’ are pumped underground under heavy pressure until the shale fractures, releasing the natural gas and oil contained in the rock. Only then can the companies begin siphoning out the natural gas. Problems with fracking can occur at almost every step of the process from the water-sand-chemical mixture leaking and polluting the land and water to the realization that the drilled well is dry as a
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.
Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction. Alas, Babylon, written by Pat Frank, is a frightening pessimistic story because the dramatic effects of a nuclear war almost wipes out the population, causes more criminal activity, and a rampage of diseases to spread across the country. The life of the River Road Family took a fatalistic turn after a massive bombing by the Soviet Union kills millions of people, including their friends and family. “This was the end. Civilization was crushed” (page 103).
Enis Davud 2/6/13 Mrs. Laird Earth Science Frack Attack! Off shore drilling or conventional drilling is used most often to extract natural gas. However a fairly new form of drilling has evolved called hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking. Hydrofracking’s main purpose is to open up shale deposits filled with natural gas that are unable to be attained using normal drilling. The process of hydraulic fracturing is complex and has many effects on the economy, environment, and the workers.
Notable world events happen every day and depending on how well you related to it decided how well you remembered the event and what you doing at the time. For me the event that affected me personally the most was the Anthrax Scare immediately following the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Two other earth shattering events that really took me off my feet were the Columbia Space Shuttle accident and the tsunami in Asia that killed over 225 thousand people. Natural world disasters are truly terrifying in the fact that no one has control of anything that made that made them happen. If you are an American and alive and well today you know about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Fast forwarding a month would be the anthrax scare postal workers faced in October.
The Symbolism of Water in The Catcher and the Rye “Change equals loss and loss equals grief. Any change–even if it’s good–represents the loss of something else. Loss–regardless of what it is–means grief,” (Dr. Wolfelt). Holden Caulfield lost his younger brother Allie who died of leukemia when Holden was thirteen years of age. The night of his death, Holden broke all the windows in the garage and had to be hospitalized.
However, I have met many people that dislike the process very much. Below one will find the answer to what fracking is, why some people think that it is important to use fracking, and what about the process concerns so many people. Fracking is also known as hydraulic fracturing. “Hydraulic fracturing is the process of creating fissures in underground formations to allow natural gas to flow.” (Barnett Shale Energy Education Council) Fracking extracts oil and gas from layers of rock formations deep beneath the earth’s surface. Sometimes, the wells can be thousands of feet deep.