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
  • 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
  • Early in the fracking boom, lines of water trucks idled outside the plants’ gates.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Kamala Harris wants to get rid of the electoral college and ban fracking.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Pumping a record 105 billion cubic feet per day (most of it from shale fracking), the U.S. has oodles of gas.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But Chemours, which was spun off from DuPont in 2015, has not spoken publicly about the use of these chemicals in drilling and fracking.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2021
  • But if new wells aren’t drilled, there certainly won’t be any fracking at a certain point.
    — Harold Hamm, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Private shale drilling and fracking has been a primary driver in the recent rise in U.S. oil and gas drilling.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2021
  • Opponents of House Bill 507 say the new language would force Ohio to lease state parks and public lands for oil and gas drilling called fracking.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And George Skelton looks at Newsom’s proposal to ban fracking of oil and gas wells.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • Sometimes a community doesn’t like the idea of a new fracking project just outside of town.
    — Donald Hughes, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • The Keystone State is the most important battleground state that Harris will need to win, and fracking is a key industry for the state.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Despite framing the fight for the climate as a fight for freedom at the Democratic National Convention, in the presidential debate Harris spoke out in favor of fracking, one of the ways oil and gas are extracted from the ground.
    — Mythili Sampathkumar, refinery29.com, 9 Oct. 2024

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