you have to be fracking kidding me
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Alex Reasbeck's PowerPoint presentation on fracking in site planning.TRANSCRIPT
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