The Ugliest Word in the English Language: Fracking | Sojourners

The Ugliest Word in the English Language: Fracking

By Bill McKibben
Jun 20, 2011
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I think I know the ugliest word in the English language -- a neologism, actually, coined to describe the technique for pumping liquid at high pressure into rock to open up cracks so that natural ga

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