No fracking way!

In 2011, Gov.Rick Perry signed a bill that required drillers to show what chemicals and the amounts they use while fracking making Texas the first state to do so. The real question is why were the drillers hiding this information in the first place?

Even though fracking is considered a cheaper and cleaner source of electricity than coal it could cause big potential dangers environmentally. Texas should ban fracking because it can cause more problems that may have an outcome that is hard to fix.  In the news article, “Natural gas “fracking”boom in South Texas,” Actor Mark Ruffalo asked "Where did we get to a point, when we are even considering, there's even a debate, not to wait, and test, and make sure that what we are doing is safe?"  After reading this question and looking at the cons I don’t see why fracking is used. If not done properly fracking can contaminate our water and by contaminating I mean you could literally set your faucet water on fire. Fracking also uses large amounts of water, it has been linked to earthquakes and it leaks more emissions than coal.

So is it really worth it? I believe not with water being very important to us covering about 70 percent of the earth and composing most of our body how could we even think to endanger it. What we really need to do is try and stop ourselves from relying so much on nonrenewable resources. We are harming our home and instead of trying to find newer and safer ways to run ourselves we continue to find ways to suck all the life out of it.