The hydraulic fracturing debate made its way to Lubbock last week, with City Council District 1 representative Victor Hernandez raising concerns about leasing mineral rights to companies to ultimately ...

Over the past two decades, vast deposits of oil and gas have been unlocked in the United States by a late-20th-century extraction-process innovation known as hydraulic fracturing (also known as ...

Sometime this month, Energen Corp. plans to hydraulically pressurize a natural gas well in west Alabama, a practice the company and shareholders hope will reap a wealth of profits, but one attracting ...

Letter goes out to nine biggest operators of controversial gas-recovery process. From BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network Danny Bradbury from BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian ...

Increased awareness about using a highly technical process called hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus shale has created questions about related human-health ...

Wheeler headed up a panel that spent six months examining the contentious issue. The independent panel is recommending that hydraulic fracturing not be allowed in Nova Scotia until there is more ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock ...

Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Few technical terms carry as much ambiguity or provoke as much confusion as ...

Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer, by a pressurized fluid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally—certain veins or dikes are examples—and can create conduits along ...