Fracking

Fracking 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…

When it comes to any type of practice, there are bound to be different types of consequences that follow. It is not any different when it applies to hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Hydrofracking has shown to be quite the productive form of obtaining natural gas, while also showing that it is decreasing CO2, or carbon…

Fracking a term that many people hear or see in today’s media. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, fracking means-”The process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc., so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas”. In today’s world, there is a high demand for natural resources such…

From the beginning of the early times of Industrialization in the United States. Fracking has been a major part in the gas and oil industry since 1857 that is over a hundred years ago. In addition Hydrualic fracking started in 1949 by Floyd Farris. Fracking extracts these resources for use it deplits the enviroment of…

The issues that fracking causes for human beings and the planet are very revealing when looking at the water and air quality around the places they drill, it is significantly worse than the places that do not have active drilling. Drilling for oil is dangerous for the environment as it lowers the water quality and…

Fracking is a very controversial topic that is more complicated than people think. During hydraulic fracturing, liquid containing sand and other chemicals fractures rocks by being injected into them at a very high pressure, cracking them, which causes gas to be released. In this report I will go over the consequences of fracking, positive and…

Fracking has brought up several environmental concerns including negative effects on geographic and climate change, fracking accidents that have polluted freshwater sources, and lastly the risk of public health. The first argument for whether fracking should be banned is that it negatively affects the environment, climate and geological change. Fracking sites or pads interfere with…

The company called “The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission” was going to drill and find oil near a school called Frontier Academy. They were near 100 feet away from the school. This obviously made the parents of children at that school upset, so they fought back, and brought the oil company to court. The…

Fracking? What does that word mean? Well, within the science and energy communities it refers to a process or procedure performed to extract oil and natural gas from the ground (Union). Hydraulic fracturing, referring to fracking, has been used for over 65 years in the United States and is a process that in the simplest…

There are many different ways to efficiently gain oil or gas in today’s society. One way to gain these two substances is by “fracking”, which is well known as “hydraulic fracking”. Fracking relies on two techniques, which is hydraulic fracking or horizontal drilling. Fracking is a very well stimulated technique, where rocks are fractured by…