The thing about Fracking that has been discovered through its application elsewhere but seldom written about is that it's a damned expensive process on a lot of fronts. You need a lot of seriously heavy industry as well as the know how to go with it. Then you have to take all this to your fracking site and set it up. Then your fracking site gets drained of its resources fairly quickly and you need to set down and move to the next site. Since these sites are normally very rural, the roads aren't up to much. So by the time you take into consideration the difficulty of extracting gas, the damage to the roads and the local environment and all other costs they reckoned they effectively broke even at some of the sites in America... but it reduced their reliance on imported gas so I guess that makes it worthwhile, right?
