Fracking Pros And Cons

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” involves injecting massive amounts of water, chemicals, sand and other material under high pressure into shale formations to break the rock and release the gas trapped inside (McGlynn, D., 2011).
The first version of fracking was patented in the USA in 1949 (American Oil & Gas Historical Society, 2015). Since the it has come into greater use over the last decade in combination with other advances in drilling technology such as horizontal drilling, which has made many reserves of oil and natural gas economically viable that were previously considered prohibitively difficult to exploit.
Fracking can provide economic benefits by creating jobs and supplying a great deal of domestic energy, but the topic has recently become controversial because the benefits of fracking do not always outweigh the possible negative effects that fracking produces.
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Fracking has boosted local economies--generating payments to property owners, providing tax revenues to the government, gains independence from importing oil, and creating

The United States spends billions of dollars on importing oil. This is represented as almost two-thirds of the country’s entire annual trade deficit. Now that there is more access to gas deposits, there is no need to rely on other countries around the world for fossil fuels. America can instead rely on their own resources to provide energy for the residents. America is already the world's largest producer of natural gas thanks to shell drilling and the country's sits on 2 of the world's largest gas fields gas production has soared 20 percent in five years in the United States now should have enough gas to last generations soon the nation will begin exporting gas and unimaginable possibility just a few years ago when energy supplies look set to run out in the construction of gas importing facilities was considered a matter of national urgency (Zuckerman, G.,