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Background

A BIG FRACKING DEAL

CU Boulder iGEM consulted INVST, a local organization that strives to educate the public on a number of environmental causes, one of which is fracking. They advocate that each person educate themselves on the local risks and benefits of fracking, and directed us to look toward two organizations: the Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) Organization which advocates the use of hydraulic fracturing, and with the University of Colorado Fracking Divestment, a group against the use of oil and natural gas. There are many different viewpoints, each seemingly able to support facts to support their arguments. CU Boulder iGEM strives to produce a product that can bring resolution to both sides by creating a sensor that can help defend the claims of oil companies while allowing environmentalist groups to conduct their own contamination tests to prove how they’ve been affected by fracking.



Fracking Over The Years

More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development. More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development.More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development. More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development. More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development.More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development. More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development. More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development.More detailed history of fracking including development of techniques, and quotes from advocacy groups regarding their formation and development.


We even asked other iGEM teams around the world to see what their opinion was, and to gauge fracking’s perspective on a global level.





CU Boulder iGEM encourages everybody to develop their own opinion on fracking. Facts from Facts from Live Science and a selection of highly rated fracking films with a variety of stances have been included below as a starting point to spread awareness about hydraulic fracturing practices.



FRACKING FACTS



86%

of interviewees were against fracking



750

Chemicals registered as fracking fluid components at FracFocus



29%

of those are suspected carcinogens



30-50%

Average recovery of injected fluids



$11,600

cost of an average contamination test



$34 Billion

annual revenue of fracking industries





FILMS ABOUT FRACKING

Fracknation (2013)

“Journalist Phelim McAleer faces threats, cops, and bogus lawsuits questioning green extremists for the truth about fracking. McAleer uncovers fracking facts suppressed by environmental activists, and he talks with rural Americans whose livelihoods are at risk if fracking is banned”

Gasland (2010)

“It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower

Triple Divide (2013)

“Triple Divide is built on evidence from cradle-to-grave investigations that attempt to answer the question, “How are state regulations and industry handling impacts from fracking?” Throughout the film’s 10 chapters, which cover waste, class II injection wells, drinking water contamination, split-estates, the “pre-drill test scandal”, and the “pressure bulb” are on the ground accounts of hair-raising journalism.”