Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

By: Ben Coates and Noah Lupica

What is Fracking
Fracking is the process used to retrieve natural gas from deep in the earth. Chemicals along with sand and water are pumped at high speed down a drilled pipeline. As it reaches the bottom the chemicals begin to fracture the bedrock releasing natural resources that then are sucked back out.

What does fracking do

Fracking is used to take out natural resources from deep in the earth. As they suck the fracking fluid back out of the drilled well the natural gas along with other resources come out.

Why it is bad for the environment

8 million gallons of water along with extremely erosive and toxic chemicals and sand are pumped at extremely high pressure down a drilled pipeline and fracture the rock. After the fluid is pumped back out they refill the well with the fluid again and then seal the hole. As the chemicals sit there they still erode the rock and will fracture up into the water source above. It contaminates the water and can not be filtered out because the chemicals are so strong. This can also go into drinking sources and hurt people.

Statistics
Fracking has been used over 1000000 in the US alone Over 60% of all gas and oil wells are made using fracking Over 8 million liters of water are used every time, the daily water use of 65,000 people Several thousand tons of sand 200,000 liters of chemicals 700 chemicals used in the process Another 3% of the fluid is released into the air when pumped back out

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