How safe is our drinking water? With different
industries dumping chemicals into the environment, the quality of both ground
water and drinking water may be compromised. Such as the California
fracking companies originally had statements that said they are legally allowed
to keep the information of which chemicals they are using with the water which caused
the surrounding communities to be outraged. Under pressure from environmental
groups and legislators in recent months, as of Tuesday the administration has
issued proposed guidelines to supervise fracking by oil companies. The
guidelines call for description of well locations and the chemicals used in the
fracking process, which involves injecting water into the ground under high
pressure to shatter shale rock in order to release oil so it can be pumped to
the surface. With hopes that this guideline would be a step forward for both
the fracking company and the environmentally concerned community as well if
wasn’t, they were immediately criticized by environmentalists as too
lenient. Hopefully through meetings and conferences before the fracking starts
the fracking companies, the administration and the community can agree on a
reasonable rule so that the oil can be realised for sale as soon as possible.
They can’t please everyone so I wonder who they will choose this time.
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