Indigenous populations have been dealing with environmental issues ever since they were forced to leave their homeland. This act of relocation of indigenous groups is something to be viewed as wrong and irrational. I will just briefly talk about how indigenous peoples can be affected by hydrofracking. As more and more people become aware of these ever-increasing problems, the effort is increased to solve these problems.
Often times the land that was provided for the indigenous populations seemed, on the outside, unappealing. When in retrospect, the land held valuable substances beneath the surface. Hydrofracking is one of these substances. Hydraulic fracturing is an issue that poses a threat to indigenous peoples if their land sites on rich oil deposits. Hydrofracking is process in which a mixture of water and other chemicals are shot into the group at high pressure to create fissures, cracking the shale deposits, releasing the fossil fuels “http://thelcn.com/2011/07/before-criticize-get-facts-straight-on-hydrofracking”. The process of hydrofracking is harmful to the environment. Damage to drinking water from chemicals in the solution and leaving behind a toxic sludge that is increasingly difficult to deal with are some environmental impacts from hydrofracking.
In 2005 The Energy Policy Act amended the safe Drinking Water Act was changed so that hydraulic fracturing was legal. In 2009, bills were introduced to the Senate to place the regulatory jurisdiction to the federal government to decide what the proper actions were http://www.iogcc.state.ok.us/hydraulic-fracturing.
As you can see hydrofracking can affect indigenous populations. This process of retreiveing foissil fuels from the earth damage the environment that the inigenous people live on, affecting where they can get food and clean drinking water. We as a nation need to see the effects this is causing and do something about it.
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