Hydraulic fracturing has reshaped global energy markets by unlocking vast shale gas reserves, delivering economic gains while raising environmental and public health concerns. This balanced analysis ...

Hydro-fracking is a process where exploration companies inject a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground, creating cracks in shale rock formations. That process allow ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas—from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE—as domestic shale basins mature and well productivity declines. Companies including Continental Resources ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A Duke University study jumps into the middle of the debate ...

Environmentalists worry that Toronto's drinking water could be threatened by the nearby treatment of toxic wastewater in New York State. Residents on both sides of the border worry about the potential ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Despite the intense scrutiny and focus on environmental issues relating to hydraulic fracturing in shale gas plays across the United States, the onslaught of anticipated litigation alleging impacts to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...