fueling

verb

1. (US)(Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel

noun

1. The act or process by which something is fueled.

   “Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.”