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The little-known history of how “fracking” entered our vocabulary

“True story,” Matthew Lewis, a communications strategist based in San Francisco, told me recently over Twitter. “I put the ‘k’ in fracking.” Vox.  Apr 28 2016

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11521618/where-word-fracking-comes-from

Posted on April 28, 2016July 23, 2016Author BillCategories Activists

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