No energy industry backing for use of word ‘fracking’

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock.

 
By JONATHAN FAHEY | Published: January 27, 2012   

NEW YORK — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.

The word is “fracking” — as in hydraulic fracturing — a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock.

photo - Hydraulic fracking fluid is reclaimed at a natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. AP Photo
Hydraulic fracking fluid is reclaimed at a natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. AP Photo

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It’s not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didn’t use it in his State of the Union speech — even as he praised federal subsidies for it.

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