Early Picket
Eth-215-801
June 16, 2016
Day Care and Fracking
What is Fracking? “Fracking, which is short for ‘hydraulic fracturing,’ refers to a
method of recovering oil and gas from shale rock.”1 “An oil company would drill down
and then push under great pressure liquids sideways into oil and gas-rich shale rock.
Millions of gallons of water, mixed with brine or chemicals, is injected into the shale and
the resulting pressure fractures the rock layers which releases natural gas or oil.”2
Fracking has it pro’s and con’s but in this situation, the con’s would be based
around how they could affect the children if something were to go wrong. The top pro
would be another option to fuel. With the amounts of oil needed on a daily basis in
America this practice would be highly beneficial to the economy and could help solve
