A controversial form of natural gas extraction is on the rise in the US.
Hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking – is the process of pumping water and chemicals underground to fracture rocks and release natural gas.
In the United States, there is ...
The debate over natural gas development and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- the process of injecting huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals ...
Protesters have brought work to a halt at a gas exploration site as they stepped up demonstrations against the controversial methods used to extract ...
HOUSTON—One of the nation's largest operators of natural-gas pipelines is buying a rival for $21.1 billion in cash and stock, making a big bet that ...
A company using hydraulic fracturing to release gas from shale rock confirms that the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in ...
When two small earthquakes struck near Blackpool, England in April and May, suspicious eyes turned toward the hydraulic fracturing operation in the ...
Protesters scale a drilling rig at a hydraulic fracturing site in northern England after a report links the controversial gas drilling process to two ...
In April and May this year, two small earthquakes struck the UK near the town of Blackpool. Suspicion immediately fell on hydraulic fracturing, known ...
A day after the EPA told residents of Pavillion, Wyoming that they shouldn't drink their water due to chemical contamination, likely from fracking, ...
Fracking is a contentious business. The process of injecting chemicals at high-pressure into the earth to pull out gas and oil has prompted as many ...
The problems begin with the historical production data, which is limited. The Barnett Shale in Texas is the only shale formation, or "play," with a ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Last summer a Halliburton executive did the unthinkable: He took a big ol' swig of hydrologic fracturing fluid.
No, he didn't ...
This week, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about the controversy surrounding the fuel-extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the ...
Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near ...
Many proponents of fracking claim there is 100 years worth of natural gas beneath the United States ready to be extracted. This seems to be a bit of ...
Environmentalists and other well-adjusted citizens of Earth, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that, thanks to illuminating ...
Frack away, there's no reason not to. Two of the main objections to "fracking" for shale gas have been blown out of proportion, according to British ...
In the heated debate over fracking in New York, it is often forgotten that conventional natural gas drilling has been taking place in the state for ...
The project used 259 million gallons of water and 50,000 tons of sand to frack 16 gas wells side by side. It was "nearly four times larger than any ...
The maker of the Oscar-nominated documentaryGasland was arrested and handcuffed at Congress when he tried to film a hearing about the controversial ...
Earlier this week an exploration company said there could be enough gas to guarantee natural gas supply for Northern Ireland over 50 years.
However, ...
