Fracking. that seems like a good solution, right? It halves the carbon dioxide emissions of coal, it drives the gas prices down (which I know we all love), and it can produce up to 300,000 barrels, or 12,600,000 gallons of natural gas a day.

So that means it's worth it, right?

Wrong.

The pros do not outweigh the cons. In order to perform one frack job, a company needs this:

• from one to eight million gallons of water
• approximately 40,000 gallons of up to 600 different chemicals

These chemicals are vast, so I will only mention a few key ones:

• Formaldehyde
• Radium
• Methanol
• Mercury
• Acetaldehyde
• Acetic Acid
• Isopropyl Alcohol

Those are just a few. Now for what it does to the environment. The fluids used for fracking are not biodegradable. These chemicals seep into the cracked crust and stay there and cause problems. However some of these chemicals seep into groundwater and release VOCs into the air, thus poisoning the animals and vegetation. You may ask, why should we care about animals and plants? There are so many of them anyway. Well guess what? We drink that water. There have been over 1,000 cases of reported water contamination, and that has caused sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage. Is it really worth it?

No. It's not.

This source is obviously not one we should use.

https://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used