Fracking

 

                                                                         Kara McQuerrey

Hydraulic fracturing was a technique designed to find gas and oil from shake rock. You can also hear this called fracking. It releases gas by drilling into the earth with high-pressure water mixture directed at rock. Then water sand and chemicals are put into the rock and then gas comes out of the top. Companies have to have licenses to be able to participate in fracking. So far more the 100 of them were granted in just the U.K alone. Most places are still scared of this idea. They feel they don’t know enough about it. Places like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland oppose fracking. Especially sense we don’t know the entirety of the environmental impacts it has. A place called Cuadrilla had to quit test fracking because of earthquakes that reached 1.5 and 2.2 magnitude.. In the United States though it has helped with gas prices. And may be able to generate electricity at half the co2 emissions of coal. It could also help generate jobs. That would be a really good thing. Although they think some of the environmental impacts are the huge amounts of water that have to be used and they think groundwater can be contaminated. There has been a ban on fracking in national parks. I honestly don’t know how to feel bout fracking. Theoretically it sounds like a good thing. In my mind it makes me anxious. I agree I don’t think we know everything that can go wrong yet. How will this affect us in I don’t know 10 years?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401