Definition of "fracking"

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.

2010 July 25, Andrew Chung, “Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 26 July 2010

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.

2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times‎

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

2018 August 30, Bethany McLean, “How America's ‘most reckless’ billionaire created the fracking boom”, in The Guardian‎

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.

2019 November 3, Robin McKie, “Shale gas fracking wasted ‘millions of taxpayers’ cash’, say scientists”, in The Guardian‎

He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter.

1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, page 79

As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?

2006 January, “Best Pentium Chipset”, in Maximum PC‎, page 27

It was a fracking nightmare.

2007, Jose Armando Perez, Betrayed? An Unscheduled Rendezvous, page 68