Denver top city for Googling "fracking," reports High Country News

Denver is the top city for Googling "fracking," reports the High Country News.

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Meanwhile public hunger for information has grown astronomically since the start of the shale gas and oil booms: Use of the search term "fracking" has surged on Google since about 2011; Denver, just southeast of the Niobrara shale play causing all of Colorado’s recent fuss over moratoria and new regulations, is the worldwide epicenter of frack searches.

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