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
We need energy to power everything, and Fracking can help power our devices. They make a big disruption deep under ground, which forces the chemicals we need to rise. They catch the chemicals and use them to make energy, and all this also creates jobs.
The bad thing is it’s not harmless. We were originally sold on the technology because it was cleaner than things like coal and oil, but now we know it’s not much better. It releases poisonous gas and pollutes our drinking water. One of the biggest problems is the ground doesn’t like being disturbed like that, so states such as Oklahoma which are big into Fracking used to have 1-2 earthquakes a year, and now they have hundreds and hundreds each and every year.
We need the energy and the jobs, but it’s destroying the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the very ground we stand on.
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