Are some folks making money from fracking? Sure.
Are there jobs created by fracking. Yep.
But fracking is an environmental disaster.
Frackers inject gobs of nameless chemicals into seams and fissures and underground water formations.
They use untold amounts of fresh water, never mind the recycling claims.
Even redneck scientists from Oklahoma are monitoring the numerous earthquakes caused by fracking.
Yes, there are negative consequences to fracking.
We have fracking because we are finished with the simple-to-get liquid fossil fuels.
Now we're fracking gas and mining tar sands and drilling in shallow waters and sensitive wildlife habitats.
I think fracking should be phased out, and a timeframe of ten years or less should satisfy the polluters who pursue this activity.
Originally Posted by Muy Largo
Perhaps you should take university classes in structural geology, rock mechanics, hydrology, drilling engineering, and chemical engineering. Then move to Sweetwater County, Wyoming or Lea County, New Mexico. You'll find the people there are much more knowledgeable about fracking than you are right now. And virtually all of them, including the landowners who use the water for agriculture and as well as the rest of the people who drink the water, support fracking. Many of them are doubtless scared shitless they're going to lose their jobs and their means of supporting their families if Biden follows through on his promise to ban drilling on federal lands.
The formations fracked are thousands of feet below "underground water formations." There are only two ways the frac fluids can communicate with potable water, if there's a faulty cement job in the wellbore, allowing the fluids to flow up the annulus between the production pipe and the hole to a shallower zone. Or if the frac fluids aren't properly disposed of when they're flowed back from the well. Both are relatively rare.
As to earthquakes, they have nothing to do with fracking. They result from injection of produced water (a byproduct of oil production) into basement fault zones. They haven't been a concern to most people in areas where water injection's occurring. I don't know why they are to you, living in Minnesota. In fact, I don't know why any of your claims are a concern to you.
Your concerns are way, way overstated. I don't know much about environmental damage and damage to human health caused by mining, but would bet the harm from solar per BTU, from mining lithium, nickel and cobalt among other things, is greater than the harm from extracting oil and gas.
However, you're not alone. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was on a Sunday show spouting some of your bogus claims along with a couple you hadn't thought of. This is a huge problem with America. Why do politicians in places like Brooklyn feel compelled to tell people in Wyoming what to do? If the locals don't want fracking, then, like residents of the Denver Basin in Colorado, they'll ban it or severely regulate it. This is symptomatic of the left's fight against freedom and liberty. The arrogant *^&T^%'s think they're smarter and wiser than people who actually understand the technology and live in the middle of it. Speaking of which, if people in New York want to pay 60% in taxes and have things like free college and a guaranteed minimum income, more power to them. Let them do it. But don't impose your flim flam on the rest of us.
Btw, I don't think you're an arrogant *^&T^%, just misguided by what you read. I reserve that gibberish for politicians.