Describe The Fracking Process

Down by Oil Industries Middle School there is a transfer student named Fracking who everyone loves for solving the low cookie crisis. What they did not know is that those cookies were way past their expiration date. The kids did not know this because the cookies simply tasted so great at the moment, for the rest of the week they were all sick from the spoiled cookies. This may seem as an “out there” analogy, but it was to simply put out there to depict how the populace is being blinded by the immediate reward that they do not see the long term effects of fracking. The oil industry has noticed that their oil reserves are low and they are looking for any quick answer to their upcoming problem that they are not seeing the consequences that will
To know why fracking pollutes the environment, everyone must first understand the fracking process and what is left behind as a result. The fracking process can be summed up in five steps: the first step is to drill a hole, the second step is to pump the hole with a pressurized mixture of water, sand, and chemicals, the third step is to take out the mixture out of the hole, the fourth step is to reel in the natural gas that comes out of the hole, the final step is to insert the water mixture back into the hole and seal it back up (Huffman). The fresh water that has been used up in the Fracking process cannot be purified again through neither the water cycle nor the water treatment plants, as a result, the non-biodegradable water that is in the holes has been known to contaminate aquafer’s water which has led to radioactive and contaminated water being used for everyday use (“Fracking”). Not only does fracking affect the land and water, but it also affects our air by the escaping four percent of all the gas being collected which mainly consists of methane gas; methane gas is known as a greenhouse gas which is twenty-five times more dangerous to the environment than carbon dioxide (Huffman). Fracking is a contributor to the rising temperatures around the globe through the effects done by the pollution of methane gas into the atmosphere. The
After the fracking process, the fissures left behind have been known to cause earthquakes in communities with no past seismic occurrence (“Fracking”). The earthquakes can easily damage communities that are not well equipped to contain the damage done by earthquakes because of the fact that the communities that are being affected have dealt with occurrences such as tornadoes, but not seismic occurrences such as earthquakes. Oil spills have now become a daily occurrence in North Dakota with their “5100%” increase in oil spills which happen so frequently that they have even stopped reporting them (Huffman). Once a harmful occurrence has become the norm, the situation has now defiantly become a dilemma that needs to be addressed. The residence that allowed the oil industry to perform hydraulic fracking surely did not account for the damages that would ensue because of the ramification done by hydraulic