Positive Aspects

• Natural gas is domestic energy for the United States.

• It makes the US more independent from the middle east and from Russia.

• Fracking revived many states that had been hit hard after the decline of the steel industry. 

• Most notably in North Dakota, there has been a resurgence of energy production and economic activity because of fracking.

• Natural gas drilling or fracking led to the United States becoming the second largest producer of natural gas by 2011 (only beat by Russia).

• In 2011, the United States produced 8,500,983 million cubic feet of natural gas from gas wells. The average price is $4.24 per thousand cubic feet, which means that $36 billion came from natural gas in the US in 2011.

• Fracking opens up many job opportunities.