hydraulic fracturing
noun
: fracking
The gas-fired plants come courtesy of the revolution in hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), which has delivered a vast supply of low-cost natural gas to an electricity market that has struggled with steadily rising coal prices since 2001.
Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren
Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Newsom last summer also ordered a ban on new permits for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, beginning in 2024. Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022 In hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, fluids are injected under intense pressure into hydrocarbon-bearing rock, causing the formation to fracture. Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 Andrew Cuomo, codified by the state Legislature in 2021, banned hydraulic fracturing in New York, which has been proved to lower emissions compared with other forms of oil and gas extraction. Claudia Tenney, WSJ, 11 May 2022 Since the eighties, when production peaked, multinational fossil-fuel companies have largely left; today, smaller operators dig up what remains using more resource-intensive and polluting methods, such as acidization and hydraulic fracturing. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022 Newsom in April took action to ban new permits for hydraulic fracturing starting in 2024, and in October took the first step toward banning new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and healthcare facilities. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021 Around 2005, energy companies discovered how to drill horizontally into shale formations using hydraulic fracturing techniques. Cathy Bussewitz And Martha Irvine, Chron, 30 Nov. 2021 Pennsylvania is one of the top states in the nation for hydraulic fracturing. Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022 Sand used for hydraulic fracturing, for example, is in short supply. Robert Rapier, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 See More
Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022 In hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, fluids are injected under intense pressure into hydrocarbon-bearing rock, causing the formation to fracture. Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 Andrew Cuomo, codified by the state Legislature in 2021, banned hydraulic fracturing in New York, which has been proved to lower emissions compared with other forms of oil and gas extraction. Claudia Tenney, WSJ, 11 May 2022 Since the eighties, when production peaked, multinational fossil-fuel companies have largely left; today, smaller operators dig up what remains using more resource-intensive and polluting methods, such as acidization and hydraulic fracturing. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022 Newsom in April took action to ban new permits for hydraulic fracturing starting in 2024, and in October took the first step toward banning new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and healthcare facilities. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021 Around 2005, energy companies discovered how to drill horizontally into shale formations using hydraulic fracturing techniques. Cathy Bussewitz And Martha Irvine, Chron, 30 Nov. 2021 Pennsylvania is one of the top states in the nation for hydraulic fracturing. Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022 Sand used for hydraulic fracturing, for example, is in short supply. Robert Rapier, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1948, in the meaning defined above
- unconcernment
- unconcerns
- unconditional
- unconditionalities
- unconditionality
- unconditionally
- unconditioned
- unconditioned reflex
- unconditionednesses
- uncondoned
- unconfessed
- unconfessedes
- unconfesseds
- unconfident
- unconfidently
- unconfiding
- unconfine
- unconfined
- unconfines
- unconfining
- unconfirmed
- unconformabilities
- unconformability
- unconformable
- unconformably