The drilling and transportation of oil is a risky business. During drilling, there is the potential for oil leaks. This can cause land pollution around oil derricks and oil slicks from rigs out at sea. Transporting oil brings with it even more risks. Modern supertankers are capable of transpo...
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to create a pad to support the drilling equipment or other necessary industrial process materials. In general, well pads increase the potential for sediment erosion on and off location because of the destruction of vegetation. These newly constructed well pads also often require construction of ...
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Horizontal drilling, for example, increases efficiency by covering a larger area, allowing more gas to be harvested from fewer wells. This reduces the overall environmental footprint of drilling operations. However, the environmental risks associated with these advanced techniques, such as water contamin...
Fracking (the term coming from a shortening of ‘hydraulic fracturing’) is one of the more recent methods of natural gas and oil extraction. It involves drilling down deep into the Earth’s crust where there are deposits of shale gas and oil that the more usual methods of extraction have ...
Whether this is direct use such as drilling for oil, or indirect use such as over grazing our land to feed the animals that will in turn feed humans, the point is the Earth is feeling the effects of it. Some argue that we will never run out of resources, at least not in our life...
Jackie Savitz, senior scientist with Oceana, an environmental group that opposes offshore drilling, said the use of dispersants may be warranted, but that chemicals only shift the environmental impact, rather than eliminate it. "[Dispersants] make the oil more soluble in water, so it won't jus...