Fracking vs. Coal

In the United States was are the largest consumer of energy in the world. We use many different energy types such as foreign and domestic oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Only two of these energy sources are contently polluting the land and that is coal and natural gas.

 The process of pumping natural gas from the earth is they have to do this thing called fracking.  What they do is pump these chemicals into the ground and that breaks the veins of natural gas in the earth now they can pump that gas out.

In the process of fraking when they put chemicals into the earth they hit under ground water used for wells in the area. Thousands of people in the area affected because there water source is know poisoned and unusable. Multiple people can even light there water in fire because it has so much natural gas in it. Even some people's wells blow up because there is a spark in the electrical well system.

The way that people mine for coal is they must blow sides of mountains down and even a whole mountain. In the process of doing that they can cause broken up rocks go into rivers and stop the whole river and flood the area. After the miners blow down the mountains they must clean the coal stones to be able to burn it. After they clean it the water is not usable anymore and they must build these huge containment areas. Sometimes they break and all of the black water rushes into near by rivers and will poison them for years to come.


As you can see in this picture was are just throwing away out water so we can power the plant. This water does evaporate and it will come back down as acid rain. This kind of rain is what majorly destroys old stone houses and monuments, metal objects like cars, and roads.

So which power source do you like? I don't like either and if we keep on using these we will never have any fresh water left in the world. So you decide natural gas or coal. Both pollute our water supplies and we will never get those back.