The aquifer supplying Springfield’s water is shielded from any possible effects of fracking in northeast Ohio’s Utica shale, according to a local expert. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Theenvironmental effects of shale gas are varied—wide ranges of ...

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas activity in northeast B.C. Dr. Ulrike Meyer, a Dawson Creek, B.C. family ...

An active drill site on state forest land in Tioga County, Oct. 2019. The Seneca Resources well will tap the Utica Shale formation. With all the talk of fracking in Pennsylvania during this ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

But it is a controversial topic both in Australia and around the world. Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is a method of ...