Meaning of fracking | Babel Free

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Hydraulic fracturing.

uncountable, usually

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“Still, environmentalists look⟳ to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry⟳ about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get⟳ the gas—and water contamination.”

“There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release⟳ trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like⟳ Romania and Poland.”

“Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze⟳ the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own⟳ sand quarry to thrive.”

“The fracking boom has been fuelled mostly by overheated investment capital, not by cash flow⟳.”

“The criticisms were made in the wake⟳ of the government’s decision on Friday to impose⟳ a moratorium on fracking in the UK. A review⟳ published by the Oil and Gas Authority concluded it was impossible to predict⟳ the likelihood or scale of earthquakes triggered by fracking.”

“It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call⟳ it “human fracking”. Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force⟳ a little monetisable black gold to the surface, human frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergent into our faces (in the form⟳ of endless streams of addictive slop and maximally disruptive user-generated content), to force⟳ a slurry of human attention to the surface, where they can collect⟳ it, and take⟳ it to market.”

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