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Ms. Mildred wrote an article discussing the law that was passed in a few cities in Texas banning bags.  Ms. Mildred disagrees with the banning of bags and believes that bags are not a major issue to the environment, and that these plastic bags are an issue and confusion to people from different state or district. I don’t agree with Ms. Mildred, I believe banning plastic bags is a great way to start to keep our land greener. At first I didn’t agree with this banning bag but when I started to work at HEB ,a well-known Texas grocery store, I started to realize the amount of plastic of bags we give out. I mean its tremendously high, plastic bags are given away like it’s noting. Once the banning bags law took in place march of 2012, it took a while for people to get use to, but I feel like it makes a big difference. Yes plastic bags are still given out but for money and not a lot of money but affordable and then that money goes out back to the city, so it’s not a waste or anything.  Another thing is if people from different states or districts come to retail stores in cities that ban bags in Texas they just have to follow the law and do what everybody else that forget their bags and just purchase one. I feel like this law is a new beginning to a better environment for our land of Texas.

Risk it for natural gas?

The drought is bad enough, why make it worse with fracking? Hydraulic fracturing is a process where drilling large amount of water in high pressure into the ground to releases natural gas from shale rocks. Yes, the fracking technology has helped us receive tremendous amount of natural gas then before and helped our Texas economy greatly,and yes all these are great things but there s things about this process that make all this not important. Fracking maybe helping our economy but its affecting our environment and risking our health which can lead to destroying our economy.

First to be able to start the process you use several amount of gallons of water. Then you take all that water and mix it with several different toxic chemicals to create the fracking fluid. Once fluid is done is goes through the gas wells all the way to the bottom of the ground where it reaches the rock shale and starts cracking them to form natural gas, while in that process some of these chemical reach ground water. That ground water is our city drinking water, where we drink out of containing those toxic chemicals. Does this whole process just to make natural gas sound right to you? Yes, we probably make several barrels of gas a day but we also put several people in danger. Also all of that water we use to make our fluid, we need for yourself, maybe an issue to our drought in Texas is probably from all of the usage of water. But it doesn't get any better not only does it use up all our water and put our health in danger but there is research being done to see if fracturing causes earthquake, because there has been earthquakes occurring in unusual places where fracking is done. Do you also want to risk you and others lives just to get natural gas. This is an issue we need to think over to see if we should really have fracking in Texas.