I understand that it has greatly reinforced our independence from foreign oil and natural gas. I understand that it has been great for smaller local economies in areas of active drilling.
but when this economic boom comes at the cost of contaminating/destroying a far more valuable resource (water) its not worth it. Not to mention the negligent damage/destruction of other peoples property that comes from, flow back, containment failure of wastewater, and well casing failures, these all lead to the contamination of watersheds, and aquifers that will poison the local water supply and the water on other peoples property.
and keep in mind when the fracking boom inevitably busts all the local economies that pinned themselves to it are going to fail. then they will be broke, and will be living on tainted land.
We're in one of those awkward stages of civilizational development where we want to start slurping up enough of the crust for processing that we're in danger of causing bits of it to collapse. Right now it's only little bits, though. This problem will come back again later on.
It'll be okay. We'll be hauling in asteroids long before the cities start falling in.
Jose Ortiz
Really shouldn't have gotten to this point. I see fracking a just a way to buy time and maintain stability for a few years in hopes fusion can be developed.
Alexander Gomez
yea... but i dont live in the city... nor can i afford/want to
Wyatt Hughes
pic related is the real scale of fracking. OP pic is a lie.
Leo Fisher
None of the issues with fracking are absent from conventional oil and gas wells.
Also why not post a picture properly to scale rather than propaganda that shows the fractures dangerously close to ground water
Dylan Evans
You're a goddamn idiot. Most of our drilling is offshore anyway. Even then its so far down, nothing is even touched when it comes to drinking water.
Carter Reed
>Most of our drilling is offshore anyway. That's not even remotely true.
Eli Cox
i just grabbed a pic off a quick image search cool your autism jets anons.
