Rachel Ehrenberg states that “ Fracking… Poisons air and drinking water and make people sick.” The government should not allow a practice in which makes the soil near the sites of fracking to become poisonous and unable to sustain life because of the gas that seeps out as a byproduct of fracking as Rachel Ehrenberg states a “leakage of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that can blow up homes.” not only are corporations that allow the process of hydraulic fracking destroying the habitat to continue, but these corporations put citizens’ home at risk by letting methane leak out. …show more content…
Scientist studies have shown that near active fracking sites the “water wells contain seventeen times more methane than water wells in inactive areas.” This corporations are poisoning the water and the people who are suffering are the one’s left with the poisonous tap water after this corporations are done extracting the gases.
People will debate that fracking is needed as it creates jobs, which then people profit from it. The reason that fracking should not be allowed is because it contaminates ground and surface water with methane, water is important to every human. Allowing corporations to contaminate the water near homes and leaving just the byproducts of their fracking as a sign they were there, should not be a practice that the government