The Effects of Fracking

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  1. the Effects of Fracking by Alex Lewis.
  2. First and foremost, what is Fracking?
  3. Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a process used
  4. to extract Natural gas is in oil from the ground.
  5. It is used in oil wells on a large mixture
  6. of water.
  7. Chemicals and sand are blasted into the formation, the formation
  8. being the oil well at extremely high pressure.
  9. Once the rock is fractured, the gas and the oil
  10. can float to the surface, ready for people to collect
  11. it and ship it around the world.
  12. Now you may be asking why is fracking such a
  13. problem? If it gives us the energy and the resource
  14. is we need Well, first and foremost, every time we
  15. use water in the hydraulic fracking process, we waste several
  16. million gallons of water.
  17. Now let that sink in.
  18. Another reason is that some of the chemicals used in
  19. fracking or hazardous to humans Thirdly, poorly built wells and
  20. pour water containment can lead to drinking water contamination.
  21. Yeah, but we can do something about it.
  22. What can we dio we can find?
  23. Other renewable resource is other than natural gas and oil,
  24. such as using solar power and wind power and hydraulic
  25. power. We can We can figure out a way to
  26. reuse the water for fracking.
  27. And we can put more effort into building better well
  28. so the chemicals won't contaminate our water supply.
  29. But there are obstacles.
  30. First, people might not want to stop fracking because they
  31. want to keep the source of fuel and energy.
  32. It will cost a lot of money.
  33. Time, effort and resource is to solve this problem.
  34. And it might take years to finish.
  35. By then, it could have already affected many lives.
  36. But it can happen.