How to Use fracking in a Sentence

fracking

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  • There's a lot of good jobs that come to the fracking industry.
    — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The plan does not call for an outright ban on coal or fracking.
    — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Again, O’Keefe was not asking about a new fracking well in Wyoming.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The real threat to coal, though, is gas, which fracking has made cheap and abundant.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Or the oil and gas industry, which has prospered due to the fracking boom?
    — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The governor said a draft of the study on steam fracking would be complete soon.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Has a boom in polar fracking tipped the Earth off its axis?
    — Ann Hornaday, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
  • Aera received 49 of the 69 fracking permits that the state has approved this year.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In the race for the White House, politicians are hoping a vow to keep fracking will secure them votes.
    — Sean Keane, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Early in the fracking boom, lines of water trucks idled outside the plants’ gates.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Concerns about the health effects of fracking aren’t new.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
  • There were the perennial goals, like a statewide fracking ban.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The end of the investigation is that fracking has not been proven to be the cause of any of these problems.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Gilmer likened the fracking industry to the stock market.
    — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Those included projects for fracking and for drilling in the Arctic.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • The good news is that the effects don’t extend far beyond the fracking sites, Currie says.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The fracking boom was the biggest energy story around the world.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • The Post-Gazette’s Anya Litvak writes that investment in fracking and the like isn’t likely to stop any time soon.
    — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Biden has not called for an end to fracking, the process used in much of the United States to extract shale oil and natural gas.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Just a dozen new fracking permits have been issued statewide this year.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Some have gone farther, calling for an end to fracking across the nation.
    — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Drillers would be able to use the train to slash the cost of sand used in fracking, a process that fractures rock deep underground to force the release of oil and gas.
    — Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This includes on-site clean up and recycling of dirty water to use it on the next fracking job.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Both Warren and Sanders want to ban fracking, which has helped to fuel the boom in U.S. natural gas.
    — Mark K. Matthews, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Now, as oil and gas prices surge again, private shale drilling and fracking are leading a rebound in oil and gas drilling.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Permian — the largest oil-producing region in the US — sees more fracking than anywhere in the world.
    — Kevin Varley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The energy patch, led by the fracking boom in the Permian Basin, is slowing.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Unlike in New York, Pennsylvania localities do not have the legal right to effectively ban fracking through the use of their local zoning laws.
    — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Trump has chided Harris for changing her positions on issues such as fracking and immigration as she's moved off several of her liberal stances — and as she's been reluctant to say whether she's changed her views on other issues.
    — Erin Doherty, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024

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