Fracking vs. Coal

Natural gas and Fracking is one of the most dangerous sources of energy. This method of gathering natural gas known as fracking is extremely detrimental to the environment. Fracking is the term for hydraulically fracturing the earth to extract natural gasses. The process of fracking requires massive amounts of water and chemicals. There are 400-600 tankers full of hydraulic fracking water sent to each well. Two hundred to four hundred trucks of water are left in the ground. They seep into the ground and the water is sprayed into the air to evaporate it. These wells are numerous and spread all through out the U.S. The water used by the wells is infused with a mix of harmful substances including formaldehyde, petroleum, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and others. All of the water that is left over inside of the ground is incredibly polluted with these chemicals. These chemicals destroy the surrounding areas. The chemicals wreck the water system through out the area. This ends up poisoning all of the animals and even the people in the surround land.

Coal is one of the most widely used power sources in the world, it accounts for about 41% of the worlds electricity. One of the main methods for acquiring coal is too remove the top of a mountain off and extracting the coal from the base of the mountain. This destroys the surrounding valleys by filling them in with rubble and debris from the mountain. Also when coal is burning it produces a massive cloud of deadly smoke and 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide for every mega-watt hour.

In my opinion Fracking is the worse of the two because of the damage that it does to the whole area near the wells. They are destroying the earth wherever they are located.