Stop the fracking

Fracking has been around for decades, but it has only recently become popular with modern technology advances that ironically turned out to be taking human and environmental safety backwards. With the technique of pumping numerous chemicals to crack shale underneath the Earth, it has made hydraulic fracking sites a liability to everything in its path. Thus, leading me to argue against this practice.

There have been a plethora of instances where people’s tap water has been flammable, due to fracking site errors. On top of that, the water usage that is needed for fracking, somewhere between 20 million to 30 million liters of water, has to start concerning more people. In places like California where water is in dire need, do we really want to use the water that we do have for this?

Lastly, we have to think of the thousands of wildlife homes that are being destroyed for all this. Fracking requires a massive amount of land, at the cost of animals’ homes. Things have to change, or fracking could seriously cause a negative “domino effect” on humans and animals around fracking sites.

Wilfrido Montes

Othello