Can Earthquakes Be Caused by Fracking? Paragraph 1: According to an article “WHATS THE FRACKING PROBLEM?” Fracking begins once a pre-drilled well that reaches the reservoir is cased with steel and cement (Bierstedt, 2015). Briersedt states that the cement and steel pipe are to protect any water supply around. The article states that after the pipe is finished water mixed with sand and chemicals are flowed through the pipe with pressure. The purpose is to restore fractures that are in the reservoir
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According to Crandall, W., Parnell, J. & Spillan, J. (2013), an oil rig explosion occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010. There were 126 people on the rig. Eleven workers were killed, and there were 17 major injuries. In addition, there were close to five million barrels of oil that ended up in the Gulf within the next three months. Tourism and wildlife in the area suffered greatly. In addition, BP took a great public relations hit. The authors indicated that there were many issues
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Pollution is destroying our Earth and hurting us humans along with the habitats and lives of many species. Your energy sources are a major cause of the pollution. By running on fossil fuels your releasing harmful greenhouse gases into the environment. But don’t fret because you can help. Instead of using fossil fuels, you can switch to biofuel paired with wind energy in your town, Algona, Iowa! Biofuel will supply fuel to your vehicles, while wind energy will provide electricity to your needs. Both
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What is fracking? fracking kills and sets water a blaze.Fracking is when they drill into the earth a mile down and gradually turn horizontal for a thousand more feet (what is fracking). Then they send a bomb down the hole to break up the shell rock. After the shellis broken up “gallons of water,sand,and an extensive list of manmade chemicals are injected into the well under high pressure” (shale stuff). Ather the shell dissolves it is extracted as oil or gas. This is why I believe that fracking
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This narration continues into the second paragraph where he talks about attending a town meeting where some gas company tries to convince them to let them build a pipeline for hydraulic fracturing. The oil companies seemed like they were going to frack with or without the city’s permission. Lennon states, “… many of them organic farmers, were openly defiant. The gas companies didn’t seem to care” (pg#). The way he says how the oil didn’t care or not if the town agreed they were going to frack either
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It was January 1901. A blast of black gold shot 100 ft into the air, making the prospectors who harvested it millionaires. Anthony F. Lucas was drilling at Spindletop hill. Although others have drilled and failed, he was determined that there was oil in the area. He drilled for 3 months and pretty soon oil gushed out of the hill at a rate of 100,000 barrels a day for 9 days straight. An ordinary man has became a millionaire and soon others got that same idea. This kickstarted the Texas oil boom and
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION There is plenty of talk on finding alternatives to fossil fuels or creating vehicles that have alternative power sources. No one has yet to find a method that would work on newly manufactured vehicles and also one that could work on existing vehicles so that they can be retrofit to operate on the new method of fuel to lower fuel costs. PROJECT JUSTIFICATION Lowering our dependence on foreign oil with the ability to retrofit existing vehicles. Business Case There are 253 million
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Gladewater Oil Boom The oil business used to be a big production in Gladewater, TX. It was a part of the East Texas Oil field which consisted of parts of Gregg, Western Rusk, Southern Upshur, South eastern Smith and also Northeastern Cherokee counties in the Northeastern part of the state. The East Texas Oil Field is a very large oil and gas producer in east Texas and it covers thousands of and has many historic and working oil wells It is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside
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On average America uses 17 million barrels of oil annually to make their demand for plastic water bottles. Based off that we could fuel 1.3 million cars with all that oil used for water bottles. This data doesn't even include the amount of oil used to transport them. On top of this chemicals such as BPA are used in the manufacturing of plastic bottles. Seven million pounds of BPA is used in the manufacturing of water bottles, food packaging, pvc pipes, and more. BPA is a hormone closely resembled
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Life in the south is very different from the life that people in the north are living in. Southern living has a lot of positive point to it. If we take a look at how people in the south live right now, we can see why living in the south is a very good thing. For Example; The southern weather makes it very enjoyable for people to live there, also the altitude that people have toward one another is very friendly. And finally the food there; they enjoy totally different kind of food from us. The good
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