Most of our bodies are made up of water, just about 75-80%. Imagine someone drilling inside of you to suck all of your bodies nutrients and minerals out, then mixing your body water with chemicals that you are unaware of. Today making a difference in our economic system, means poisoning our Great Lakes, killing off the future, and not giving children the benefit of the doubt if that were done to the people of the states. Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking, and fracture stimulation, is shale gas drilling companies come to an area, buy up drilling rights from landowners, cut new roads and raze patches of land formerly undisturbed natural environments, cart in and out tens of millions of gallons of water and tons of chemicals and “proppants” like sand with hundreds of big rig trucks that produce tons of diesel emissions and wear down existing roads, drill holes under multiple properties, mix water, chemicals and proppants together on-site to make fracking fluid, pump the fracking fluid in and out underground to shatter underground deposits of shale to release bound-up natural gas.
After the entire process everyone they install permanent equipment to “clean” and capture most of the natural gas pack up go home cashes their checks and live happily while your land is being contaminated with a light white mist of chemicals to top your land and on top of that you would be at risk of effecting some of the senses, skin, eyes, and respiratory functions (nofracking!).
The Essay on The Element Chlorine Water Chemical Chloride
The Element: Chlorine General Information We researched the chemical element known as chlorine. Chlorine hasan atomic number of 17 and an atomic weight of 35. 453. It has a valence number of 3. The element has 3 energy levels. Chlorine exists as a greenish-yellow gas at normal temperatures and pressures. Chlorine is second in reactivity only to fluorine among the halogen elements. Chlorine is a ...
The process produces toxic wastewater containing carcinogens and radioactive elements such as radon and uranium. Citizens should not drink, or bath in chemicals harmful to their bodies, nor should people pay for fresh water when it can just run from the tap in their homes. Hydraulic Fracturing should not be an option for making money. In order to bring our economy out of its depression we will be sacrificing our drinking water, bathing water, and whatever else we use water for.
Two women commented that the dangers of “fracking” are far more complex than scientist would have us believe (Barlow/Hunter).
In their article they quote, “Many Americans are familiar with the disaster at Love Canal and the ensuing demand for stronger environmental regulation after a corporation buried massive amounts of toxic chemicals around Niagara Falls.” twenty percent of the world’s fresh water is in the Great Lakes. According to these women, Niagara Falls, and the Great Lakes will be so polluted it will cause medical problems for people, from this procedure. In 1969, operation Plowshare outside of Rulison, Colorado detonated a 40 megaton bomb deep underground to stimulate the release of natural gas but it was too contaminated with harmful radioactive isotopes from the explosion to be of any use. Hydraulic fracturing has a history that expands over 60years but compared to the beging of this process it has changed and evolved over that span of time and has created more problems than solutions in my eyes (nofracking!).
In the movie, GASLAND by Josh Fox, a woman named Debbie Maye was interviewed. In the movie she stated that her animals were starting to lose their hair. She contacted the oil industry and they told her it was from her cleaning with Lysol so much and from her cat playing with the telephone poles outside. Josh Fox asked her had her cat been playing with any telephone poles, she answered, “She’s never been outside”. Also in this movie people did not want to be photographed, recorded, or give out their information just a jar of contaminated water because they are afraid of the government and what they would do to them and their homeland. One woman said she was risking her life giving Fox the jar of water.
The Essay on Air and Water Pollution: The Gulf Oil Spill
On April 20, 2010, BP’s oil rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and unleashing more than 200 million gallons of oil into the water (Sakashita, N.D.). The spill oiled more than 1,000 miles of shoreline and a study from the Center for Biological Diversity shows that more than 82,000 birds; about 6,000 sea turtles; nearly 26,000 marine mammals, including dolphins; ...
Mike Markham from Fort Loftan, sent in a jar of his contaminated water to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, three weeks later he got a phone call saying there were “no indications of oil & gas related impacts to water well” to stop the process of hydraulic fracturing around their homes and on their property. His own tap water was so contaminated he could literally set it on fire from all of the toxic chemicals that contaminated their water supply. He also put a bag over his well outside of his home to see what materials it would collect. He figured he would put a fuse to it, when he did that the bag floated away. Now, in the 21st Century we own only the top of the land we paid for (Leonard).
The oil industry can dig underneath and do whatever they want.
Companies like Encana and other hydraulic fracturing participating companies try to cover up the chemicals and make it seem like it is not that big of a deal, “We also use water during completions operations which includes hydraulic fracturing, where a combination of water, sand and a small amount of chemical additives is injected through the well to the target rock formation, which is located deep underground, at high pressures.” (Encana.com) The oil and gas industry and trade groups are quick to point out that chemicals typically make up just 0.5 and 2.0% of the total volume of the fracturing fluid. When millions of gallons of water are being used, however, the amount of chemicals per fracking operation is very large.
For example, a four million gallon fracturing operation would use from 80 to 330 tons of chemicals (Hydraulic Fracturing 101) Workers have spilled chemicals and improperly sealed wells. In the year 2001, a family named Fentons, experienced a white mist cover their land by their house. They complained but they say the state’s Department of Environmental Quality could do nothing (Leonard).
The DEQ confirmed that it did not regulate the process of “fracking” in that area. They didn’t want to answer the Fentons questions either. Encana is a major player in hydraulic fracturing, so are Bp and Exxon Mobil. No one outside theses industries knows what chemicals are injected undergrounds and they do not have to tell us. When President Bush signed an energy bill in 2005 it contained something called the Halliburton Loophole which specifically exempted hydraulic fracturing composed in the Safe drinking water Act.
The Term Paper on Chemical Warfare Gas Agents Death
Chemical Warfare 1. 0 What are Chemical Warfare Agents Chemical weapons include any chemical substance, whether in a gaseous, liquid, or solid state, which can be used to cause loss of performance, permanent injury, or death in humans. These chemicals are commonly man-made toxicants, however, there is increasing research in the use of natural biological toxins as chemical warfare agents. Many ...
Katheryn Fenton says her mother lost her sense of taste and smell. She was also noticing she was losing the same senses also. Katheryn Fenton’s husband, John Fenton used to work for an oil industry but soon after the white mist covered the top of his land he quit. He now has to drive 80 miles round trip to get fresh water from relatives for drinking bathing and other every day uses we have for water. Gas companies, state, and government do not care about what they are doing to our water as long as the wealthy are taken care of. A man named Louis Meek said he drilled more than 500 feet down his well to try and get fresh drinking water and struck a gas pocket and it made a water fall of chemicals erupt from that spot. Encana was called and they told them they were drilling private property on their property. His family had to leave their home for three days until a judge told Encana to seal the well.
Meek is worried that his family will not be able to grow up like he has and enjoy the land like they are supposed to (Gasland Film).
He became a prisoner in his own property. The gas companies are running the states and water will be worth more than gas if hydraulic fracturing continues. There are other ways to produce natural resources and boost the economy without harming citizens or land and water. Instead of trying to fund production to find new ways to produce these natural resources and energy some states have already started this process of hydraulic fracturing and are endangering our future as we speak, putting chemicals in our water and polluting the air. Texas oilman and corporate raider T.
Boone Pickens claims that natural gas paves the road to energy independence in his “Pickens Plan”. Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more. If things go the way he wants groundwater across the country will end up contaminated by the energy we buy from him, but he will be able to sell us all of the clean water we need (NoFracking!).
The Essay on Water Pollution Control Jersey State Wells
Contaminants Threatens Wells, DEP Concludes Jaime L. Garcia 02-01-05 Key Word List Asbury Park Press (APP. com), EPA. gov, Environment, New Jersey Water, Contamination, Clean Water Act, Water Pollution Control Issue Statement The contamination of public water wells in Monmouth and Ocean County can lead to negative long terms effects and put a major impact on the cost for water filtration. The ...
At the rate their going soon there could possible be water being five dollars a gallon, WIC checks for clean water, or only a certain amount to those on wel-fare. Why should people endanger their health for money. There are other ways that could produce energy and natural resources. The government could set up wind turbines instead of putting tax dollars into the entire process of fracking. People could use solar panels on top of their houses, even have electrical cars that plug into the walls as you would charge your phone.
The Lapino mud volcano in East Java is an ongoing, non-stop eruption of toxic mud, expanding over the Pacific island at the rate of about 50 Olympic swimming pools per day, that started over four years ago. 13 people have died and over 50,000 have been displaced as far as a result. This Lapino mud volcan was almost certainly caused by hydraulic fracturing (NoFracking!).
So if the states could agree on something if not anything let us all agree that hydraulic fracturing is not for us.
