Nationally, many individuals are not too pleased with how well things are with several of these aforementioned groups which are collaborating in the Fracking industry. There is a failure to ensure environmental safety as ways around the system are being established. Companies Using gas to frack-drill has exemptions from adhering to the rules of the Underground Injection Control Program (UIC) of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (SDWA). Money seems to be what leads in talks, so citizen welfare takes a rear seat. (Clean Water Action, 2013) Hypothetical Fracking Incident When trying to increase the flow of oil for manufacturing purposes, a company erroneously contaminates the local water supply. The company doing the fracking, immediately realizing their mistake calls the local water company and the water supply is shut off to the community. There is an immediate concern about the highly toxic effects of the contaminate drinking water because it may contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and cause cancer in humans (U.S. Geological Survey, 2005). Before the water could be shut off, a small portion of the community had ingested the water. Grievances were made of the water supply having a foul taste and an unpleasant odor to it, and there was additional complaint of people having trouble breathing the air when outside. Within the span of 12 hours, roughly nine adults and six children were sent to the hospital with severe stomach ailments, nausea and complaints of joint pain. Lab results showed uncharacteristically high amounts of radium in the patients who had consumed the water and were complaining of bone pain, since it is used as calcium by the body and is then placed in bones (Grossman, 2012).
Nationally, many individuals are not too pleased with how well things are with several of these aforementioned groups which are collaborating in the Fracking industry. There is a failure to ensure environmental safety as ways around the system are being established. Companies Using gas to frack-drill has exemptions from adhering to the rules of the Underground Injection Control Program (UIC) of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (SDWA). Money seems to be what leads in talks, so citizen welfare takes a rear seat. (Clean Water Action, 2013) Hypothetical Fracking Incident When trying to increase the flow of oil for manufacturing purposes, a company erroneously contaminates the local water supply. The company doing the fracking, immediately realizing their mistake calls the local water company and the water supply is shut off to the community. There is an immediate concern about the highly toxic effects of the contaminate drinking water because it may contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and cause cancer in humans (U.S. Geological Survey, 2005). Before the water could be shut off, a small portion of the community had ingested the water. Grievances were made of the water supply having a foul taste and an unpleasant odor to it, and there was additional complaint of people having trouble breathing the air when outside. Within the span of 12 hours, roughly nine adults and six children were sent to the hospital with severe stomach ailments, nausea and complaints of joint pain. Lab results showed uncharacteristically high amounts of radium in the patients who had consumed the water and were complaining of bone pain, since it is used as calcium by the body and is then placed in bones (Grossman, 2012).