Hydraulic fracturing has been effecting our environment in ways that we never would have thought would happen. Hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking,is the leading cause in our gas prices going down so far, but it has devastated the land and people around the fracking drills. Fracking has been known for causes large amounts of people who developed cancers from some of the chemicals that are pulled out of the ground do to fracking. On some occasions the dangerous chemicals and gases will leak into the water storage system that a city has.