| From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well. |
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| Oil companies are gearing up to frack oil deposits in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation that lies beneath some of the state's most productive farmland. |
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| But soon after the first frack trucks pulled up two years ago, the well on McGuire's property ran dry. |
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| Anyway, if nuclear can't hack it, there are always those billions of barrels of frack free oil under Gatwick. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| I know it's been difficult, particularly with Frick and Frack here leaving for college. |
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| Sparks suddenly had seen the light and Frick and Frack had their eyewitness identification. |
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| Or at least your pals Frick and Frack over at the IRS should have it. |
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