fracking is a way of extracting oil and gas from typically very difficult to reach areas think having to get through Shale having to get through hard rock and a lot of times it actually sends pipelines in a horizontal fashion as opposed to our typical vertical fashion it's very expensive to do this but there's huge economic benefits potentially to doing it but why does it keep coming up politically and why does it keep coming up on things like debate stages well it's simple there's a lot of good things about fracking but there's a lot of environmental concerns around fracking it's not considered green it's not considered good for the environment in fact according to some do your own research fracking is very bad for the environment so that's it in a nutshell it's a way to extract natural gas and oil it could