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ISSUE: Fracking may threaten human health by contaminating drinking water supplies. PRO FRACKING: It is highly unlikely that well-run drilling operations, which involve extracting oil and gas from thousands of feet down in the ground, are creating cracks that allow chemicals to reach relatively shallow aquifers and surface water supplies.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is perhaps the most important energy discovery in the last half century. As a result of fracking, U.S. production of oil and natural gas has increased dramatically.
Fracking increases the rate at which water, petroleum, or natural gas can be recovered from subterranean wells. It has also allowed the extraction of unconventional oil and gas resources from low...
Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting natural gas from deep underground via a drilling technique. First, a vertical well is drilled and encased in steel or cement. Then, a horizontal well is drilled in the layer of rock that contains natural gas.
Fracking is a method used to extract natural gas and oil from deep within the Earth's surface, according to National Geographic. During the process of fracking,...
Here’s why: As fracking grows, natural gas prices are dropping. The U.S. fracking revolution has caused natural gas prices to drop 47 percent compared to what the price would have been...
Natural gas flared as waste is a new sight on the Dakota prairie, where fracking—a way of extracting hard-to-reach oil—and directional drilling have sparked a boom.