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YOU HAVE TO BE FRACKING KIDDING
ME?....Alex Reasbeck
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WHAT IS FRACKING?
Hydraulic fracturing or its commonly referred to fracking, involves the use of water pressure to create fractures in rock that allow the oil and natural gas it contains to escape out.
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FRACKING’S TURBULENT HISTORY
1940’s as a result
of the growing
demand for oil for
the automobile
There are now
over 500,000
fracking wells
within the United
States alone.
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BENEFITS
60% of all natural gases were harvested from
fracking wells
Profits in the several billion dollar range
Employees 2.5 million people
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COSTS
600 different types of chemicals making fracking
water extremely dangerous.
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FRACKING'S
GROWING AFFECTS
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FUTURE
In the next 20 years
there is another 500,000
proposed fracking wells
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EPA AND GOVERNMENT ACTION
Began enforcing and regulating the planning of
fracking well sites
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SITE PLANNING
Planners have the daunting task of planning these
well sites that can affect environments miles away
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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
Will continue to grow in the fracking world, as the
risks of fracking continue to be found
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