Hydraulic Fracking Casual Analysis vs Texas

Abstract

This casual analysis essay is a modest foray into the world of hydraulic drilling, also known as fracking, and possible consequences that have arisen from this industry. It is believed that recent earthquakes have occurred in North Texas. Evaluations and research were obtained by (Internet) and (non-Internet) sources. These sources included several websites and one book. An explanation will be written about the industry of fracking and will be followed by excerpts from articles about the benefits of fracking and to the determent of this industry on the environment. The public outcry in Texas about earthquakes in relation to fracking has escalated this past year of 2014 to present and it is difficult to find published literature directly relating to Texas issues with fracking. There is definite hard data obtained from the website of United States Geological Survey that earthquakes are occurring more frequently. However, further research needs to be made before an actual concrete conclusion that fracking is directly or indirectly causing earthquakes in Texas.

Hydraulic Drilling: The Fracking Dilemma in North Texas

There are many different types of natural disasters that the denizens of the world have endured in the past and present. There have been hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods that have devastated the face of the Earth in terms of physical destruction and lives lost. The earthquake is another such natural disaster. In the past generation, earthquakes have been a focal point in the news with mass destruction from an earthquake’s initial effects and the after affects that have changed the Earth’s surface. The United States populace was made more aware of earthquake devastation after images of the destruction in Oakland, California in 1989. Of course recently the earthquake and the resulting tsunami that crippled Sukuiso, Japan in March 11, 2011 reinforced the idea of an earthquake’s destructive capability to most people. People...