Source Write Up #2

Citation:
Nearing, Brian. "Water Concerns a Focus of Report." Times Union. N.p., 4 Oct. 2013. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.

Summary:
     A national environmental group, Environment America, released a report on Thursday, October 3rd showing statistics and negative affects of hydrofracking. This was big news as New York State is still deciding on the issue of whether they should allow hydrofracking in the state or not. The mian concerns in the article were with environmental damage done and contamination of water. Some of the statistics are,

• In 2012, 280 billion gallons of contaminated water returned from hydrofracking and had to be treated and disposed of in a safe way.  This cost an extremely unnecessary amount of money.
• About 2 billion gallons of chemicals required for fracking have been pumped into the ground, and a lot of them are toxic.
• 450,000 tons of air pollution are released per year through the wells used for hydrofracking.

     In my opinion, these numbers speak for themselves and the reward from hydrofracking is not worth the risk of destroying the environment where it occurs.

Link: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Water-concerns-a-focus-of-report-4867618.php