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Oil, gas industry opposes use of word fracking for method
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.
Its not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didnt use it in his State of the Union speech even as he praised federal subsidies for it.
The word sounds nasty to some, and environmental advocates have been able to use it to generate opposition and revulsion to what they say is a nasty process that threatens water supplies.
It obviously calls to mind other less socially polite terms, and folks have been able to take advantage of that, said Kate Sinding, a senior lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council who works on drilling issues.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/01/27/oil-gas-industry-opposes-use-of-word-fracking-for-method/
Gman
(24,780 posts)everyone working down in these oil fields here in South Texas calls it fracking.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]We oppose the oil and gas process of fracking.
Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)After all, "sugar is sugar" . . . .
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Anything that reflects on the truth bothers them. People might not want them in charge of America anymore.