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- noun oil industry
Hydraulic fracturing .
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Examples
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"What I want to know," said Sharon Wilson, a longtime anti-drilling activist who maintains a running blog on problems associated with shale activity, "is how the gas companies can call fraccing fluid 'salt water' when 1 percent of that fluid is enough to kill 17 cows, most of them within an hour?"
Home 2009
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I'll cover it at a later date, so feel free to vent your "fraccing" anger at that time.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
WN.com - Articles related to Water to cost more from Jan 1 2009
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This would be a blow to exploration and production companies, but possibly a considerable financial boon to service companies with the right stuff to do the rock fracturing, a field known as "fraccing" in the industry.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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Critics abound, but hydraulic 'fraccing' promises to tap vast new supplies.
WN.com - Articles related to ExxonMobil confirms sign of oil deposits in Sulu Sea 2009
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