The word
‘fracking’ which is also known as hydraulic fracturing is a well intrusion
performed on an oil or gas well, in order to increase the production by
improving the flow of hydrocarbons from the drainage area into the well bore.
As an allegedly bio-hazardous industry fracking has already attracted
controversy, as the early researches have marked that this practice has
increase the risk of infant birth defects living near the fracking sites.
Over past few decades in the U.S., the use of fracking a method to
extract gas through which chemicals, water and sand are pumped into the
ground to discharge trapped fuel deposits has been increased significantly and
about 5 years ago the country had produce oil for around 5 million per day and
today it produces 7.4 million due to fracking.
According to the research conducted in
the month of January 2014 by Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public
Health had discovered that number of congenital heart defects in the infants
born to mothers living close to gas wells in Colorado.
Furthermore, two more studies that have
not been looked closely shows that in the Pennsylvania, United States new born
babies born close to fracking sites were more prone to have low birth weight,
which is a sign of developmental problems. Moreover local authorities in Utah
which is one of the states of United States are examining a rise in stillbirths
after tests, where they found hazardous levels of air pollution from the oil
and gas industry.
However, with the rising fracking wells
that were also examined by few researchers were resulted in the incidence of
neurological defects despite the fact that it was only at high levels of
exposure, also premature birth, low birth weight and oral clefts were
scrutinize by the researchers for a correlation.
One of the studies that was conducted in
Colorado where fracking in five cities of Colorado were banned or drilling
within municipal boundaries were also sought long-term moratorium after wells
popped up near schools and backyards and industry were also pushed back.
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