{"id":14144,"date":"2024-04-15T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revolutionnaire.co\/be\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2024-05-24T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:42:39","slug":"the-affects-of-oil-drilling-and-fracking-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionnaire.co\/be\/the-affects-of-oil-drilling-and-fracking-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Affects of Oil Drilling and Fracking on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world we live in offers us a plethora of natural resources to make our lives more efficient. However, sometimes, accessing these resources does more damage than good. Indeed, there are a number of concerns associated with the process of drilling, used to access crude oil and fracking, used to access natural gas. Oil drilling happens when \u201ctubing is bored through the Earth’s surface, and a well is established. A pump is connected to the tube and the petroleum under the surface is forcibly removed from underground.\u201d (Jason Chavis<\/a>) On the other hand, \u201cis the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand, and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure, allowing the gas to flow out to the head of the well.\u201d (BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both crude oil and natural gases have brought us benefits. Oil is to make gasoline and diesel, jet fuel, propane, and asphalt. It is a nonrenewable resource, which means that it cannot be replenished, and drilling must continuously occur. Natural gases are used for electricity, heating, and transportation. Like crude oil, it is also a nonrenewable resource. It is undeniable that life as we know it would be vastly different without these two resources, but their extraction poses a danger to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t have to look too far to remember the oil spills that have taken place worldwide. \u201cFrom 2010 to 2020, there were more than 60 accidents resulting in 164,000 tonnes of oil being lost.\u201d (Peter Mwai<\/a>) The oil clings to animals, making it hard for them to swim while simultaneously blocking the sunlight from reaching under the water. As drilling occurs in the Arctic, polar bears can be affected by the accompanying pollution (Elaina Zachos<\/a>). Chemical usage is synonymous with fracking. In fact, \u201cThe EPA identified 1,084 different chemicals reported as used in fracking formulas between 2005 and 2013. Common ingredients include methanol, ethylene glycol, and propargyl alcohol. Those chemicals, along with many others used in fracking fluid, are considered hazardous to human health.\u201d (Melissa Denchak<\/a>). Fracking has also been connected to earthquakes, with research<\/a>suggesting that a 5.7 magnitude quake in Prague, Oklahoma in 2011 was linked to that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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