Sentence examples for frack- from inspiring English sources

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But soon after the first frack trucks pulled up two years ago, the well on McGuire's property ran dry.

The site owned by Sanderson's uncle and aunt is near Roseacre, and as you wind down the pot-holed lanes towards it, past the huge communication masts of the Royal Navy's Inskip site, placards of opposition appear: "Don't frack with Fylde", "Health not wealth" and "What price fracking?

A single frack at Cuadrilla's Preese Hall site on the Fylde in 2011 produced good flow results, says Vaughan, but it also produced two small earthquakes, a government investigation and a false start for the company.

"There was an application to frack in the village where my mother lives," you tell me, as if it's a personal affront to your mother.

"If you're going to develop the oil, you've got to have the water," said Larry Baxter, a contractor from the nearby town of Mertzon, who installed two frack tanks on his land earlier this year, hoping to make a business out of his well selling water to oil industry.

Some want to stay and finish singing along to anti-fracking campaigner Pamela Mudge-Wood's version of I Vow to Thee My Country ("I vow to thee, my countryside / My aquifers and lakes / To withstand against the frack machines / Earth's life-blood is at stake" goes the stirring chorus Pam presents to us in handouts).

Americans, by contrast, tend to be delighted if a firm wants to frack under their land.And for landowners, the fracking itself is not the only money-spinner.

From little frack pads in the middle of vast wheat fields, they can drill four miles down, more than a mile to the side, and, thanks to satellite technology, hit a target three feet across.

He said it was wrong to frack in some areas but it was ok in others, it was ok in the North East of England because he said, and I quote: 'it was full of desolate and uninhabited areas.' In one casual aside dismissing one whole region of the country.

The second objection, voiced more often by locals carrying "Frack off" signs, is to the lorries and disruption that come along with mining: pure NIMBYism.The environmental objections are weak.

Alternatively, it can be reinjected into the ground during the next frack.

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