Hello everyone! Today, I will be reporting on my dad's blog post about fracking, something that involves digging underground for oil. Some people are claiming that natural gas or oil is a fuel of the future, and a way to bridge a gap between the dirty and clean energy economy. Dirty energy is made from uranium, coal, oil, and gas, while clean energy is made from wind, sun, and water energy. But natural gas might be pointless. Fracking might be worse than coal for global warming. Some people believe that dirty energy sources are causing global warming which is causing the world to heat up faster then it normally would. That is probably why there was no snow on Christmas last year. Fracking could also be very expensive.
Fracking is a 60-year old procedure in which you have to drill through rocks to find shale. Once the drill finds the shale, it is removed. Steel casing is then placed the entire length of the well and cement is put into the casing. The point is that this process could poison our water supply and heat up the globe. You can watch a fracking animation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3fFgoqwH4&feature=related and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB3FOJjpy7s&feature=related
Even if natural gas released "only" half the greenhouse gases from coal, or if fracking turns out not to be as toxic as feared, natural gas still wouldn't be a good thing to do because it could probably still cause global warming and still wouldn't be be 100% safe, and we must use energy that is safest for the environment.
This debate has been going back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. That's why I'm an Independent. I'm part of the debate but Independents might have better solutions. Thank you for caring enough about the environment to read this! I hope you learned something!
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