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Fracking: A Growing Political Argument Analysis

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Over the last decade or so improvements in oil welling have led to a growth in different types of oil mining that have re-sparked the environmental debate over oil. These range from oil sands in Canada, Fracking in the United States, and Deep Ocean drilling off the coast of Brazil. This of course has caused a rush to extract these new resources especially with the growing political argument of energy independence and political tensions in the Middle East. This issue is especially important for Pennsylvanians as Fracking is a viable option in the State that has two sides both with logical positions and laws that differ from other states that have similar initiatives.

To begin Fracking is a process that mixes chemicals with water and sand injects

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