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Lets Brighten Up the USA

May 28, 2014
By HoseSkater PLATINUM, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
HoseSkater PLATINUM, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
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"You are not popular by the number of friends you have but, by the number of true friends you have." --Me


Are you team “Frack?” The process of fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. Fracking productions cause many more job opportunities in Pennsylvania.
Fracking operations create ½ a million jobs in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania fracking jobs pay $62,000. Jobs are created throughout the drilling operations and in the trucking aspect. The natural gas, and fracking water all need to be transported in trucks. The only way to get rid of the water is by transporting the fracking water to a water treatment plant. More than 70% of fracking jobs are filled by Pennsylvanians.
At the fracking operations they provide the safest possible workplace for the employees. The workers are mostly made up of local workers.



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on May. 30 2014 at 5:05 pm
Bob_The_Un1c0rn BRONZE, St. Thomas, Pennsylvania
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Or are you team "GREEN?"  What happens to the animals in the area where they're drilling? UMMM easy question, the animals either DIE or have to leave their habitat and build a new one somewhere else.  Also, the water they use is FRESH water, our drinking water, or water that comes from streams, and we already are losing enough fresh water as it is.  The high-pressure  water mixture that gets released into the rock is filled with Fresh Water, Sand, and CHEMICALS.  Not all of that mixture is taken out of the rocks and into the trucks, so the remaining water seep back through the earth and gets into lakes and streams that hold millions of microscopic organisms and they also hold lots of fish, so that healthy stream or lake gets filled with this nasty fracking fluid, so now the stream or lake is contaminated and the contaminates of the water kill ALL the ORGANISMS in the lake or stream.  Sometimes the frcking fluid also gets into our wells, so now you can't cook with the water, or wash the dishes with it, or drink it, or even bathe/ shower in it.  Sometimes the chemicals coming from the water can ignite ( catch on fire) by any open flame and than the water may catch on fire, too.  These are just SOME CONS of fracking/ drilling for natural gas. There are a lot more, so stay with TEAM GREEN!!! NOT TEAM FRACK!!!  Just remember... "GO GREEN!!!! STAY CLEAN!!!!"