Sentence examples for been fracking from inspiring English sources

The law had been sought by drillers who have been fracking in the Marcellus Shale and wanted uniformity in rules on where they could drill.

"They say they've been fracking for years and years and it hasn't caused any problems," said Ms. Murphy, an artist and designer.

Further, Trump's key energy adviser for months has been fracking multibillionaire Hamm, who has been mentioned as a potential energy secretary.

The government previously acknowledged that foreign companies had been fracking for gas in the country after the Guardian uncovered gas developments in other national parks.

But firms will be penalised if they fail to drill the promised test wells.Oil-and-gas firms have been fracking on a large scale in Canada and America for over a decade.

"Because we had the earthquake, we decided to abandon that well," says Vaughan, who is originally from Kentucky and for the past 30 years has been fracking all over the world, from the US to Thailand to Turkmenistan.

Approximately one million American wells have been fracked since the 1940s.

In fact, less than half of the Pennsylvania wells have actually been fracked.

According to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, about 200 of these have been fracked.

But the focus of the talks was fracking.

Some agents say they are bombarded with questions from would-be buyers: How likely is fracking in this area?