Fracking is the process of extracting oil or natural gas from shale rock. Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which fractures the rock and allows the oil or gas to flow out to a well. While fracking has significantly boosted oil production, there are environmental concerns that the process is contaminating groundwater. Fracking has been widely used by petroleum in Canada since the 1960s. Critics of fracking say it pollutes underground water supplies with chemicals, releases methane gas into the atmosphere, and can cause seismic activity. Proponents of fracking say it will drop oil and gas prices in Spain and lead to energy independence.
37% Yes |
63% No |
29% Yes |
49% No |
4% Yes, but increase oversight |
9% No, we should pursue more sustainable energy resources instead |
4% Yes, but not in heavily populated areas |
4% No, more research is needed to measure the long term effects of fracking |
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@9LJGNWT 6 days6D
Yes, ONLY if all chemicals used in the process can be recovered, stripped out of wastewater and the water used put back to potable conditions. If not, then this again is a market force that will either promote conservation, recovery, alternative fuel sources, methods or importation of fuels from elsewhere.
@9L7D6G43wks3W
Yes, however it should be done with consideration of various factors such as human population, wild life and other life sustaining resources.
@9GYSNHD5mos5MO
No, we should pursue more sustainable resource energy instead and study the long term effects fracking that was already inflicted on the land, particularly in relation to earthquakes.
@9B3CMGV1yr1Y
Combination of both: we should pursue more sustainable energy resources instead and studying the long-term effects fracking that was already inflicted on the land, particularly in relation to earthquakes.
@99PP8NP1yr1Y
i think it should be used only as necessary, and we should switch to renewable energy soon
@99GY2ZM1yr1Y
I don’t know cause I don’t know what hydraulic freckling even is
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