Fracking

Fracking is a very serious environmental problem. Fracking started in the 1860's as a huge future problem when liquid was first used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in the ground. In the 1930's people tried to inject a non explosive in the ground to stimulate a well which would force gas and oil to the surface. In 1949, a company called Halliburton became the first company to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas. Fracking started many years ago and has become a big problem that many people did not see coming.

Fracking is even a problem to drinking water and our environment. Fracking uses heavy amounts of fresh water filled with chemicals to get the gas and oil out of the ground. Most of the time none of that water is reused but just left in the ground. Since 1949, when hydraulic fracking was started it has been releasing huge amounts of pollution into the air! One day, if fracking continues due to all of the pollution it creates our air could possible become hazardous to breathe. Since the early days of fracking it has caused mini earthquakes to occur that have even damaged homes! Fracking causes many environmental problems and should be stopped.

Sources: http://www.alive.com/articles/view/23262/fracking_in_canada

http://youngpetro.org/2013/05/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-fracking/

 

http://www.sciencedump.com/content/pros-and-cons-fracking-infographic

 

Paragraph on Recent book I Have Been Reading

Recently I have read the book "Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins." In this book there are many teenagers but the main character is a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen. She is a normal teenage girl but she lives in the future and has to hunt for animals to eat because she is poor and lives in a place where most people are poor. I think she is different from most teenagers because she poaches animals and has to fight to the death in an arena. I think this book is a little unrealistic but anything could happen in the future.