Alex Reasbeck's PowerPoint presentation on fracking in site planning.

1. YOU HAVE TO BE FRACKING KIDDING
ME?....
Alex Reasbeck

2. WHAT IS FRACKING?
 Hydraulic
fracturing or
its commonly
referred to
fracking,
involves the
use of water
pressure to
create
fractures in
rock that allow
the oil and
natural gas it
contains to
escape out.

3. FRACKING’S TURBULENT HISTORY
 1940’s as a result
of the growing
demand for oil for
the automobile
 There are now
over 500,000
fracking wells
within the United
States alone.

4. BENEFITS
 60% of all natural gases were harvested from
fracking wells
 Profits in the several billion dollar range
 Employees 2.5 million people

5. COSTS
 600 different types of chemicals making fracking
water extremely dangerous.

6. FRACKING'S
GROWING AFFECTS

7. FUTURE
 In the next 20 years
there is another 500,000
proposed fracking wells

8. EPA AND GOVERNMENT ACTION
 Began enforcing and regulating the planning of
fracking well sites

9. SITE PLANNING
 Planners have the daunting task of planning these
well sites that can affect environments miles away

11. ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
 Will continue to grow in the fracking world, as the
risks of fracking continue to be found