Fracking Argument Paper

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Fracking is a consideration that needs to be addressed as advances in technology have increasingly made it more possible and profitable for corporations to extract fossil fuels, including natural gas, oil, and coal bed methane (Willow & Wylie, 2014). It is important to come out in front of the issues and discourses surrounding the introduction of fracking into new areas, such as Western Maryland, in order to effect the necessary changes with the system. The goal is to use the power and knowledge of the changing discourse from an economic argument to justify hydraulic fracturing to other societal, environmental, and public health concerns to prevent fracking corporations from gaining a foothold in Maryland. Economic arguments are used to counter …show more content…
These unconventional gas deposits seem to provide a source of income for residents nearby, however, much of the profit goes to the corporation, while the localities instead are forced to bear most of the burden of the costs. These can include environmental concerns, which are intimately tied with public health concerns that are linked to contamination of groundwater sources and air pollution (Finkel & Hays, 2013). When the health of a community begins to be effected by contamination and pollution that can be connected to fracking, the public will demand answers and want to know why they were not protected effecting the social systems within the community. A larger community will also seek change because in Maryland, the underground basins can eventually reach into the Chesapeake Bay, which is an entire ecosystem that already exists with much pollution, so if fracking fluid leaked, it could have even further detrimental effects (Schijf). In creating a new discourse, this would be avoided; the public’s view of fracking would be that of seeing the potentiality for its negative
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