Hydraulic fracturing is used as a way to extract petroleum, water, or natural gases from out of the ground.  It seems harmless right?  Well the EPA greatly disagrees with it.  The EPA has been conducting experiments regarding contaminated drinking water in Pavillion, Wyoming.  The EPA has definitely found numerous pollutants such as Butoxyethanol and Benzene.  These were a few of the exact chemicals found in the contaminated drinking water.

            This is a huge problem because, although EPA officials were not yet able to prove that this was caused by fracking, they are very close to doing so.  Fracking is a very important part in our economy.  We use it to obtain petroleum and other natural gases.  If the EPA shuts that down then we will have to find other ways to safely extract these materials.  This cost enormous amounts of time and money and this planet already has enough things to worry about.

            The fracking companies are going to have to innovate ways to safely do their job.  They can’t keep contaminating civilians water that could turn into yet another major catastrophe.  There has already been notices put out in the past to not drink the drinking water because of contamination and now the EPA might have found the source.

            It seems like everyday people are finding more and more environmental damages to the earth.  Something has to be done soon before we completely screw our planet up and ruin our chances for survival.