What is Fracking? Well fracking was a technique designed to recover gas and oil from the shale rock. Fracking began in the 1882 ,this took place in people’s backyards which meant they had to come to there homes and combined it with horizontal drilling,all this franking been around for 100 plus years.This also became a […]
According to a 2014 study, at least 15.3 million Americans have lived within a mile of a fracking well that has been drilled since 2000 (Lallanilla). If it impacts so many people, why is fracking not talked about as much as it should be? The effects of fracking are causing extreme damage to the earth, […]
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Get startedFracking is the process of injecting water at high pressure into rocks deep underground, which can cause earthquakes because it can sometimes lift the Earth’s surface. Since the 1960’s, geologists have known that it is possible to cause quakes by pushing fluids into the ground. On September 3, 2016, Oklahoma experienced their strongest earthquake that […]
Hydraulic Fracking: A Boon or Bane to the US The first question when hearing hydraulic fracking, it pops the question for what exactly is it? Hydraulic fracking (fracturing) is a controversial oil and gas extraction technique developed in the late 1940s to gain access to fossil energy deposits previously inaccessible to drilling operations. In the […]
The report is for a Communications unit for the Higher National Certificate in Administration and Communications Technology. The aim of the report is to investigate fracking and how it affects economy, the environment and the wider demographic. The objective of the report stands to inform and persuade the reader about fracking and its impacts on […]
Oil fracking has been a long practice undergoing the resource mining of oil to be purposed for our own benefits. The underlying history that is brought from the beginning of oil fracking relies in polices and the Yom Kippur War. These two aspects in oil fracking will help understand what the contemporary issue’s history is […]
Fracking has created a new world for everyone in the U.S. Production of crude oil has increased by far over the years and there is plenty of information about it. People say negative and positive comments about it, but its not likely most of them will be negative from the years of increased technology that […]
Back in april of 2010, a very tragic situation happened to the water in a environment. There was an oil spill which covered bodies of water, which became an industrial disaster that began in the Gulf of Mexico which was considered to be the largest marine oil spill. Leading to the sickness and death of […]
Did you know that a 2011 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma was caused by fracking? (Pritchard,1) This is shocking because the area isn’t particularly known for earthquakes. Evidently, many effects arise from fracking, including positive economical effects and negative environmental. Each day, fracking is becoming a more and more controversial topic. It has even been […]
I am very interested in fracking for natural gas and how it can cause environmental and economic issues. Our class central idea is global opportunities may create conflict between people or other living things. Our group’s topic is finite resources, how to access them, and how they cause conflicts. Our group’s central idea is opportunities […]
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