Blakely Case

Blake Flovin, 17, was wrestling in a high school tournament in his home state of California, before he noticed strange red bumps on his face. It turned out that the red bumps were herpes, and the Archbishop Mitty High School senior told KTVU reporters that he never thought he would contract something like herpes from wrestling, but after doing some research, he is learning that it isn't all that uncommon. The teenager's face is now covered in lesions from the disease, and his parents are outraged.

Because of her immense passion for helping people, Mona Hana-Attisha writes an engaging memoir of the events that led up to the Flint Water Crisis. She uses emotion throughout the book to connect us to how important this is to her and stresses that this is still going on to this day, she knows that a lot of people aren’t educated on this topic. It is eye-opening to realize the amount of people who are unaware of the importance of this problem. Before Mona Hana-Attisha, the citizens of Flint, Michigan, thought that the water was safe to drink. Not only does she stress that this problem is going on, but highlights that there are other crises similar to this that are also going on.

The article on “NAACP Report Reveals Disparate Impact of Coal-Fired Power Plants” talks about how coal pollution from the coal-fired power plants will negatively impact the environment surrounding it, including the population in the surroundings, and the harm it will bring upon them. It suggests that Americans that reside near a coal power plant has a lower average income than most of the Americans in the nation. Furthermore, it also pointed out that 39% of Americans that live near a coal power plant are “people of color”. This article claim that coal pollution from the coal power plant is killing population that has a low income and people of certain races. According to the article, climate change is also a negative impact brought on by coal

On chapter 1 Melissa Checker’s “Polluted Promises”. She focusses on the research of Hyde Park, Georgia, and the tenacious activism of its two hundred African American people, how the community was struggling for environmental justice through mobilization and grassroots movements. The Residents are suffering with concerns in their community. She wants to know how environment movement organization has damage African and Urban activist. This community is at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries. The community was struggling to have their voice heard again and also to make their community safe. She also argues on how the Hyde Park stands for many other African American and other poor and minority communities. Hyde Park shows the post-civil

GasLand, a documentary by Josh Fox, is an extremely informative film about the negative externalities that consumers have to incur since they live in close proximity to a hydrofracking facility. Throughout the film, Fox travels around the country and meets with families that have been negatively impacted by fracking companies moving into their communities. Due to the amount of pollution that hydrofracking can cause, many of the families that Fox meets with no longer have the luxury of clean water supplied through their faucets. GasLand really opened up my eyes to the dangers of hydrofracking, and the negative externalities that consumers have to bear.

energy sector has been fracking; this drilling technique has allowed the United States to become the world’s largest oil and gas producers. However, environmentalist, environmental advocates, and citizen groups maintain that fracking poisons drinking water, causes cancer, and causes irreparable environmental damage. Environmental advocates use the word fracking like an expletive to generate opposition and revulsion “to what they say is a nasty process.” Even the cult sci-fi television series “Battlestar Galactica” used the industry word as a filler for a much harsher “F-word,” even though it had “nothing to do with oil and gas.”

Thesis: Today I will discuss a very important issue that is happening in our own backyard. Hydraulic Fracturing, also known as “Fracking”, is contaminating our drinking water, all in the name of “Energy Reform”.

I also find it morally incorrect for the state government, despite listening to the complaints of the people, to ignore the people’s cry for safe drinking water while investing interest in how hydraulic fracturing will produce capitalism for the economy. The local residents of Wyoming whose rights to safe drinking water are deprived center in on the analytical framework of Carolyn Merchant’s argument in her article, “Interpreting Environmental History.” According to Merchant, some key themes in environmental history is the use of power and justice, as well as our consciousness. For instance, in the case of the local residents in Wyoming, residents face injustice as they are being deprived of their right to safe drinking water. Not only that, but the costs to hydraulic fracturing are health hazards and water that is unfit for consumption for residents; whereas, natural gas companies and state government benefit from hydraulic fracturing because of the increased natural gas production, source of capitalism being made from these drilling activities, and thousands of jobs produced for people. And natural gas companies are conscious of how they are negligent in responding to the complaints of residents in Wyoming; even now, Encana Corporation and other natural gas companies

In December 2011, the federal Environmental Protection Agency concluded that fracking operations could be responsible for groundwater pollution.“Today’s methods make gas drilling a filthy business. You know it’s bad when nearby residents can light the water coming out of their tap on fire,” says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation. What’s causing the fire is the methane from the drilling operations. A ProPublica investigation in 2009 revealed methane contamination was widespread in drinking water in areas around fracking operations in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania. The presence of methane in drinking water in Dimock, Pa., had become the focal point for Josh Fox’s investigative documentary, Gasland, which received an Academy Award nomination in 2011 for Outstanding Documentary; Fox also received an Emmy for non-fiction directing. Fox’s interest in fracking intensified when a natural gas company offered $100,000 for mineral rights on property his family owned in Milanville, in the extreme northeast part of Pennsylvania, about 60 miles east of Dimock.

Energy sources in today’s world are becoming scarcer by the day, as energy is one of our most needed and essential commodities. Who supplies the energy and how much energy they are supplying typically determines the amount of influence one country might have over another regarding our global economy. This is where hydraulic fracturing becomes a controversial and important topic to those of us in the United States. Lately, environmental campaigners have voiced concerns over the large amounts of water that is needed to carry out the fracking process and the possibility of tremors it could cause. For example, in 2011, the Black pool area in England experienced two relatively small quakes. One reading 1.5 and the other reading 2.2 on the magnitude scale. Collin Richardson, vice president of operations for Mineral Resources Inc., feels that the issue is perplexed when he states, "People go to a light switch and expect energy to be there, but they don't think about where it comes from. I don't think most people understand that without hydraulic fracturing, we wouldn't have natural gas to provide electricity to our homes or gas in our cars” (Rydbom). It seems as though there is a misconception about fracking that arises from the environmentalist groups as to what fracking really is. These misconceptions cause an emotional upset with citizens due to the twisting of facts and fake news.

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has become a large part of the economy in northeastern Pennsylvania, and has impacted the area’s economy, environment, and mindset. Fracking is the process of extracting natural gas from the earth, and the industry it has brought to areas like northeastern Pennsylvania shows effects consistent with the ideas of neoliberalism and hegemony.

Shale gas has become embroiled in controversy over alleged impacts on public health and the environment. Some segments of the public have become deeply suspicious of the veracity and motives of gas companies. These

BMW one of leading car manufacturing company at United States introduced a new market strategy in order to increase the sales of customized vehicles. But introducing of new marketing “Dream it. Build it. Drive it.” Lead to decline in BMW’s SUV sales at America so that it required a immediate response. BMW’s X3 model launched a new online service allowing the customers to view their car being manufactured by means of

Siting and operation of coal fired power plants in the U.S. today is a clear example of public and corporate policies disproportionately impacting communities of color and communities with low economic or political leverage. As discussed below, all the usual suspects associated with hazardous industrial operations make appearances. Direct toxicity, unexplained health issues, economic penalties, and failing schools (further concentration of low-income and less mobile) ravage the communities unfortunate enough to host these operations.1 Without fully debating here the broader policy questions of whether we should or should not be producing energy in this manner, on this scale, given its well established associated environmental and social costs, one thing is still abundantly clear: When it comes to siting power plants, responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths and 120,000 cases of aggravated asthma per year 2 , siting is disproportionately located in communities of color and low-income communities.3 Furthermore, that race is found to have a more significant correlation with siting of hazardous installations, such as coal fired power plants, than socioeconomic factors alone4 , seems to further build a watertight case that “the path of least resistance became an expressway leading to the one remaining toxic frontier—people of color communities.”5

The infinite beauty of our world is one that demands a delicate balance of respect. For centuries, all life has coexisted with these just principles. Each time man’s reach exceeds his grasp, nature’s fury unleashes itself relentlessly and without pause. These grave disasters reshape the face of our planet, leaving behind scarred remnants of its former self for future generations to inherit. How much ill-fated treatment must our world endure? How long before a reckoning, too great a price, is paid for the mistakes of the past? Hydraulic fracking paves the way for such a future. A future built upon the needless sacrifice of life in the name of profit is no future for me. Life is precious and it comes without a price. With each passing day, fracking is allowed to go unchecked, unchallenged, and unanswered. Its actions induce unwavering harm to all things living under our blue skies. This must end, lest our world fall to ruin and despair.