Sorry, But Fracking’s Not ‘GREEN ENERGY’
It’s a very sad day for Lancashire and
a bad day for the United Kingdom.
For now, that Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing – the process of drilling
and injecting fluid into the ground) has been approved by the High Court and
Cuadrilla given the green light to Frack in Lancashire, other companies will interpret
this approval as a green light for them to get their submissions approved too.
Sold to the nation as “GREEN ENERGY,” it’s
far from that.
For with Hydraulic Fracturing, tons of
water, sand and chemicals are forced underground at high pressure. This pressure forces cracks in the rock to
allow natural gas to be released. Sounds good so far, doesn’t it?
However, although that sounds simple,
if cracks appear in the well shaft, leakage of chemicals will go into the ground
water supply. If this contamination happens and its ingested, it can cause
sensory, respiratory or neurological damage.
Also, chemicals evaporate into the air
per extraction this contributes to the air pollution and endangers those living
within the vicinity. That’s the clean air policy out of the window.
You cannot sugar coat “Fracking,” it’s
the worse type of drilling that not only endangers health but it’s also bad for
the environment especially as the waste is not biodegradable and is difficult
to get rid of. It also creates water shortages by using water from natural
streams and rivers, drying them up. Remember we’re short of fresh water and need
water to survive, not gas!
“The Walkways Awakening,” tells a similar
story about a fracking incident in the UK where it causes a global disaster
causing vein like cracks to appear beneath the surface of our planet, that
causes earthquakes and opens up huge sinkholes and creates an anomaly within the
Hadron Collider that causes and even bigger problem. Now it appears that my
written word is about to become realised which is bad, for although it’s a science
fiction story that contains factual elements, it has a frightening ending of
which none of us would like.
Fracking is the opposite to the
cleaner environment and by the High Court ruling in favour to allow Cuadrilla to
proceed with Hydraulic Fracturing, it’s sending a clear message to the world,
that the UK doesn’t care about air pollution or the environment!
Author: Charmain Ingleton
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