YOU HAVE TO BE FRACKING KIDDING

ME?....Alex Reasbeck

WHAT IS FRACKING?

Hydraulic fracturing or its commonly referred to fracking, involves the use of water pressure to create fractures in rock that allow the oil and natural gas it contains to escape out.

FRACKING’S TURBULENT HISTORY

1940’s as a result

of the growing

demand for oil for

the automobile

There are now

over 500,000

fracking wells

within the United

States alone.

BENEFITS

60% of all natural gases were harvested from

fracking wells

Profits in the several billion dollar range

Employees 2.5 million people

COSTS

600 different types of chemicals making fracking

water extremely dangerous.

FRACKING'S

GROWING AFFECTS

FUTURE

In the next 20 years

there is another 500,000

proposed fracking wells

EPA AND GOVERNMENT ACTION

Began enforcing and regulating the planning of

fracking well sites

SITE PLANNING

Planners have the daunting task of planning these

well sites that can affect environments miles away

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

Will continue to grow in the fracking world, as the

risks of fracking continue to be found