Informative Essay: What Is Hydraulic Fracking?

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What is Hydraulic Fracking? Hydraulic Fracking is a type of drilling that has been used commercially for 65 years. The combination used for fracking is horizontal drilling, employ cutting-edge technologies. It's a way of liberating reserves of natural gas that are locked within shale formations deep below the surface. Because shale is not very porous, gas does not travel through the rock easily. I picked Hydraulic Fracking as my issue because it has a really big impact Inhuman health and countries in our society today, like other issues there's a lot more information but fracking just really intrigued me because I've never heard about it before unlike deforestation and groundwater contamination.

Across the world, fracking is contaminating drinking water, making nearby families sick with air pollution, and turning forest acres into a no trespassing zones. Yet the oil and gas industry is pushing to expand this dirty drilling—to new states and even near critical drinking water supplies for millions of Americans. We need to show massive public support to stop the oil and gas industry from fracking our future. Help stop fracking by calling on your Congress/prime minister to close the loopholes that
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