fracking

[ frak-ing ]

noun

1. hydraulic fracturing.

Other Words From

• frack verb (used with or without object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of fracking¹

Shortening and alteration

Example Sentences

Her work there included extensive coverage of the Aurora movie theater massacre and its aftermath, the early days of marijuana legalization and the rise of fracking.

From ProPublica

Natural gas prices decreased over that time, too, though by a lesser amount—32 percent—but that’s due to the recent fracking boom and not a longer term trend like that seen in renewables, the article states.

From Popular-Science

Other possible moves include tightening rules on the conventional pollutants that come from coal burning, such as mercury, and imposing strict new limits on methane emissions from fracking and on tailpipe emissions from cars.

From Washington Post

When employment spikes, as it did in the fracking boom, births tend to rise also.

From Freakonomics

To make matters worse, the energy industry had been pursuing a two-decades-long expansion in fracking.

From Fortune

Fracking, in this regard, is no different from gypsum mining, or some kinds of industrial agriculture.

From The Daily Beast

But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.

From The Daily Beast

The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.

From The Daily Beast

But those incidents are due to mistakes and leaks, not proper fracking procedures.

From The Daily Beast

That can happen, according to the report, when (flammable) methane leaks out of fracking wells and into drinking water.

From The Daily Beast