Fracking provides many jobs to unemployed people, according to John Harpole in “Poverty and fracking.”, “... an energy savings of more than $110 billion to the U.S economy, all thanks to fracking shale formations full of natural gas.”(poverty and fracking) However, those shale formations full of natural gas being frackedcauses so many problems, such as ‘earthquakes’ from those shale formations being blasted with chemicals, water, and sand (EIA). Also other unconventional sources of natural gas include natural gas produced from coal beds and from tight sandstone layers or chalk formations which ruins those things, from the blasting, shattering the shale into thin pieces and extract gas. Which causes a ton of damage to the earth and will cost
