The picture shows harmful chemicals being released into the air.
The article i read talks about how our natural resources are being tremendously overused and the effects they have on our environment. He talks about the Marcellus Shale which is a long strip of land that contains approximately 150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. It extends from Ohio and West Virginia to the Catskills. The positive about this is that there is an abundant amount of natural gas for the U.S. to use. The negative is that parts of the shale are located very close to lakes and reservoirs that supply fresh water to NYC and parts of the upper states. Margin for error in these areas is non existent. The slightest mess up could harm many people. The author also talks about the oil spill that recently happened on the Gulf of Mexico and how it is "painfully obvious that we ought to immediately correct our fatally flawed system of living, a system determined to forever abuse seemingly unlimited natural resources." He says that strategic use of these resources could turn out to be disastrous.
I completely agree with a lot of what the author has written. We have been living like the resources we have today will be here forever by wasteful use of them. Also i agree with the dangers that the resources have on our environment. In the article the author talks about searching for "green investments". The damage fracking does to our land and waters, the damage coal's chemicals has on our air as well as natural gas is hurting us. It is important that we preserve these resources but we have to come up with ideas on how to obtain these resources, and use these resources without harming the environment we live in. When the author wrote about the Marcellus Shale it reminded me of the movie we were watching today in class and how contaminated the water is that people have been drinking. This can ultimately become deadly and dangerous to humans that consume. If we cannot get these resources without harming the environment and the people and animals that live in the environment then we are going to have to find other resources that re before we destroy the earth we are living on.
Questions:
1) Do we have any plans for our future on new resources?
2) When will the Marcellus Shale begin to contaminate the water that we use here in Hatboro and Horhsham?
3) Is there anything like the Marcellus Shale in other countries around the world?
I agree with Lucas that we are going to have to find an alternate source of energy. If the environment and people are being harmed by something that is supposed to help people then what is the point of using it? As it said in the movie today it is unbelievable that something that took mother nature millions of years to make can be destroyed in a matter of minutes. When we were little and played with legos and built a tower we would get mad when someone knocked it over, however, that is essentially what we are doing. There are people trying to fight it, but most people do not realize what a major issue this is and are not concerned therefore do not do anything about it. Honostly, I would not have known about it if we did not discuss it in class.
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1.) If someone were to put together a group to fight this, would it change anything?
2.) How serious does this need to get before this is as big as topics such as global warming?
3.) If everyone is complaining to the EPA and nothing is being done, is there someone above the EPA that they could bring this issue to?
I can also relate back to class with Luke about the movie. We as people don't really seem to notice the harm we have caused to our surroundings and the people. Fracking is a HUGE problem in Pennsylvania. I do understand it's important to have natural gas for cars and such, but can't we travel to places that are within a mile by foot or bike? We don't think with our heads and by that, we are costing people lives. Fracking has contaminated thousands of peoples own water to the point where they have to go out and by water or not drink it at all because it contains chemicals that could kill you. And when these people go to the drilling companies, they claim they are not the ones who caused that problem. In order to stop these types of conflicts, we have to find alternative sources of energy like Diane had stated. Either that or we slowly stop the usage of them.
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1)How come if this is becoming such a huge problem within the state of Pennsylvania, we don't really hear about it that often?
2)If fracking is causing SO many problems between water and the citizens, how come the President or even the government has yet to get involved?
3)Are there any other countries across the world that are having similar problems to ours with fracking or even trying to find alternative energy sources?
If we continue to use our resources at the same rate we are were going to have nothing left in the next few years. Although these natural gases are a good alternative, it is putting too many people in danger. It affects their health and the environment around them.If anything goes wrong while they try to frack in the __________ marcleskwekl then it will affect the water very close to us. Also, like we saw in the movie, the industries and companies in charge will most likey not take responsibility either. Once their work is done the effects afterwards don't matter as much. We need to watch how quickly we use our resources and figure out a way to not rely so heavily on them.
ReplyDelete1) Is there anyway to not allow companies to frack on your land?
2) Besides natural resources and fossil fuels are there any new discoveries that help our environment work the way it does?
3) Are the companies in charge of the fracking considered responsible for the affect it has on the surrounding water or illnesses the surrounding people suffer from?
Not sure what happened but that should have said: "If anything goes wrong while they try to frack in the Marcellus Shale then it will affect the water very close to us."
ReplyDeleteNatural gas is often called the "clean" fossil fuel. But the fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter. Natural gas is still non-renewable, and still is dirtier than sources of energy like wind or solar. And then of course there's the problem of the dangerous fracking method, which could affect our water supply in the near future. I think that we as a people need to cut our dependence on fossil fuels, and we need to do it soon. It's been stated many times before, but these fuels are not going to be here forever.
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
1) How can we (as teenagers) or even local adults help stop hydraulic fracturing and the dependence on fossil fuels?
2) What is a good replacement for the widely used natural gas industry?
3) Would you personally make the switch to a new and possible more costly and inefficient source of energy?