Fracking

There are difficult to reach pools of Natural Gas deep under the earth behind rocks that people are itching to get their hands on. Fortunately there is a process which allows us to do that. Fracking, Hydraulic fracturing is the process of injecting huge amounts of water saturated with different chemicals and sand into this pool through a pipe line to make them crack and flow more freely. Since Fracking was introduced the reserves of natural gas that was previously unattainable became available resulting in huge price drops in house hold energy. It would have been perfect practice if it didnt have some seriously harmful flip side. First of all it takes large amount of water to prepare the fracking fluid which will be injected into the earth. There are also numerous hazardous risks involved such as the fracking sites are left to let all the post fracking fluid evaporate releasing harmful substances into the atmosphere. The actual process of fracking also presents threat that potentially dangerous fluid might escape the fracking site and find its way towards the underground water around the nearby. Fracking also causes small tremors inside earth crust which sometimes result is small earthquakes.

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