| the2real4mafol said: You can't be seriously telling me fracking is a good thing? I mean the evidence against it is very clear. It is an environmentally damaging practice, it has been proven. But because there is the potential to make tons of profit from it, any risk from fracking is ignored. To be fair, i'm not against using gas as a fuel but there has to be another way without contaminating everyone's water supply. It's just not worth the risk. Water is increasingly valuable in this world. Why not improve renewable energy or safety in nuclear energy instead of devastating the planet for profit? |
You are indeed wrong.
Most people don't know this... I'm guessing you don't... fracking has existed for about 50-60 years now... with generally no complaints until the last 5 or so.
Fracking can be done extremely safe with very little effects to the enviroment.
For example, contamination of ground water? That only occurs when fracking fluids are spilled above ground. Actual fluids used by frackers have pretty much zero chance of effecting ground water. It's certaintly safer then nuclear power assuming you take the right precautions.
The recent hysteria is ironically enviromentalists being whipped into a hysteria by big oil who are afraid the new fracking methods for natural gas will cause a cheaper more envirometnally friendly, eaisly deployed power source that will kill oil prices. Which means cheaper power and gas prices for everybody.
It's really all just big oil tricking enviromentalists to support a law that will prevent fracking for natural gas. While big oil continues to frack for oil.
As for improving renweable enrgies. Sure lets do that. In 50 years or so it'll be great.
Nuclear Energy? Sure, though it generally takes 10-20 years to build a nuclear plant due to all the crazy regulations for them, and often times they don't get finished for said reasons.
Additionally the waste effects of nuclear waste are going to be worse then actual fracking. So it's really just more an anti-greenhouse stance in general. In which case... fracking is STILL good because it lowers oil use.
