Fracking? Did You KNow?

 

Did you know there are potential dangers to groundwater of hydraulic fracturing?

Fracking (also often referred to as hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking) is a process in which a fluid is injected at high pressure into oil or methane gas deposits to fracture the rock above and release the liquid or gas below. The process and its aftermath has generated controversy because of harm to drinking water and health where it has been used, in Colorado and New Mexico [1], and more recently in expanded drilling plans in the Marcellus Shale in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other mid-Atlantic states.[2]

Fracking  which uses enormous amounts of drinkable water along with toxic chemicals and which also releases radioactive materials and other hazardous substances in shale deposits -- has raised significant environmental and health concerns.[3] In New Mexico, for example, similar processes have leached toxic chemicals into the water table at 800 sites.[4]

 

What Fracking InvolvesThe method for extracting methane gas being used in the Marcellus Shale region of the U.S. is more formally called "horizontal hydraulic fracturing," or hydrofracking or fracking. In this process, a fluid is injected into the rock which then releases the gas along with radioactive toxins and other hazardous substances in the shale. This procedure has raised serious environmental and health concerns.[6] In New Mexico, for example, similar processes have leached toxic chemicals into the water table at 800 sites.[7] To force methane gas out of shale, millions of gallons of fresh, drinkable water are forced through a pipe drilled into the shale at extremely high pressure. A variety of chemicals are added to the water to keep the fractures in the shale open and keep the gas flowing to the surface.

 

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