“Fracking or Fracing?”

Hydraulic frac­tur­ing has become a hotbed of con­tro­versy, but so has its nick­name — frack­ing. But the ori­gin of the “frack­ing” moniker is far more innocu­ous than its cur­rent use in cer­tain cir­cles, as a kind of exple­tive. Bat­tlestar Galac­tica used “frack­ing” as a sur­ro­gate for the more pop­u­lar F-word.

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