frack

American  

[frak] / ˈfræk /

verb

1. to engage in hydraulic fracturing of (underground rock, or an area containing it) in order to extract natural gas or oil.

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Example Sentences

Houston-based Fervo uses technology pioneered by oil-and-gas drillers to frack rocks, create geothermal reservoirs and crank out electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal

He encouraged the “WordPress community to vote with your wallet,” and not give it to a company that’s “going to frack every bit of value out of it until it withers?”

From Slate

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission granted the mineral rights to several oil and gas companies, allowing them to frack for oil and gas under land owned by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Department of Transportation, including state parks and designated wildlife areas.

From Seattle Times

A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the water supply.

From Seattle Times

Some threw money in front of the commissioners and shouted them out of the state meeting, while others sang protest songs in and chanted “Don’t frack our futures,” and “Shame.”

From Seattle Times