Fracking Is Essential For The Growth And Development Of...

Hello, I am entirely sure that you do not know who I am, where I live, or whom I aspire to be but I do know that we have more in common than you may think. I come from Northeast Pennsylvania, a terribly underrated and beautiful place that has changed and grown as I have changed and grown up throughout my eighteen years of habitation just like you. I have seen the wonders of four seasons change from dazzling summers, to crisp autumns, to harsh winters, and to fresh springs just like you. I have seen the water trucks come up and down my road, then stopping to fill their tanks at a water station from the Susquehanna River, just minutes from my house just like you. I have fallen in love with where I have come from, but some believe that our†¦show more content†¦But with every situation there are always negative side effects. Fracking, I’m sure as you already know, begins with contact from a gas drilling company that wishes to buy the mineral rights to your land. This has been a very complicated process for many people before, during, and after the rights have been signed. The property owner must take into account that the rights are only for Marcellus Shale, the duration of the lease, and that the company should be held for any damages done amongst many other variables of the process. Once that has been completed, the drilling process may begin. Unfortunately, the drill cannot simply be poked in the ground with natural gas spewing out of the hole that has been created, fracking is much more complex than that as I am sure that you know already. Decades of research, triumphs and failures have gone into the creation, management and use of drilling rigs that, as a result, has left us with the standard fracking procedure we know today. The first step of the fracking process is to find land that will be suitable for fracturing. It must be an area that contains natural gas and is easily accessible to the gas company. Geologists survey the land long before hand and have exact calculations and measurements upon where natural gas is located. After buying the mineral rights from the land-owners a drilling rig is built in a few days along with the well pad. Then, layers of steel pipes are lowered about 1,000