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$What is fracking? (Oil pumps in Bakken Oil Field)$

Fracking

18 May 2021

A controversial method for extracting oil and gas by splitting up shale rocks

Fracking well

UK government rings death knell for the fracking industry

4 November 2019

The sharp reversal of support ends nearly a decade of protests, court cases and minor earthquakes without any energy being produced

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