During tonight’s national coverage fracking was a topic brought up on multiple occasions. Can someone explain what it is and the pros and cons of it? Need it because a google search did not help :/
In: Biology
Will try to keep this simple.
Fracking is using high pressure water and chemicals to break rock to extract oil and LP gas, this can destabilize the bedrock, and poison aquifers.
the wastewater from fracking is also some of the most vile pollutants you can imagine, many wells this wastewater is so chemically volatile that it is able to ignite and explode, but due to radioactive elements that are naturally in the earth’s crust many cases that same wastewater is also spicy, as in radioactive.
no matter how you cut it, it’s a massive health and pollution concern.
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