Tag: hydraulic fracking

Among greenhouse gasses, methane is now the second most important one causing climate change. Its expansion in the last few ...

Things are shaking up for the fracking industry.

Hydraulic is certainly a polarizing issue. It's got some economic benefits, and causes a lot of environmental damage. Is it ...

Some argue a firmer ban is in order.

A new study confirmed that oil and gas exploitation in the US can generate a surprising number of earthquakes.

These oil and gas wells spill pretty often to the surface, a new study found.

Wastewater spills from hydraulic fracking in North Dakota caused widespread water and soil contamination, a new Duke University study finds. Nancy ...

A survey of a major oil and natural gas-producing region in Western Canada founds evidence that hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" ...

A new unfortunate world record has been triggered by fracking

The sheer use of water, which can have a huge environmental impact.

Hydraulic fracking is responsible for a swarm of earthquakes, one of which was felt by Ohio residents in March 2014, ...

Not all boreholes are the same - scientists using mobile equipment measured how many gaseous compounds are emitted by the extraction ...

A new proposed amendment in the UK would make a mockery of existing European shale gas regulation. If the new regulation ...

Pump jacks dot oil fields between the California towns of Taft and Maricopa. The very deep petroleum would be hard ...

Among the main arguments of hydraulic fracking proponents is the claim that fracking does nothing to threaten drinking water supply, ...

This year, Oklahoma already had over 230 earthquakes with a magnitude of over 3. In 2008, the average number was ...

In a new study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, researchers showed that the human-induced magnitude 5.0 earthquake ...

The United States is spewing 50 percent more methane than the official federal government estimates, a new study concludes. The ...

A study published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy correlated 93 small earthquakes in Texas (near ...

France's ban on hydraulic fracking was completed, with the court upholding a 2011 law which prohibited the practice and cancelled ...

A new report released by the Energy Information Administration showed that the US will end 2013 as the largest producer ...

A new study of 100 private water wells in and near the Barnett Shale showed elevated links of contaminants such ...

A trio of papers recently published in Science link hydraulic fracking and geothermal energy production to numerous earthquakes in the ...

Here we go: once again, Colorado's fracking boom raised fears that something dangerous will be leaked in the water, and ...

Oil, oil, shale gas, oil, fracking, oil - this is pretty much all you hear all day, especially if you ...

This year, we witnessed the United States' carbon emissions drop to a record level, one that hasn't been seen in ...

There has been a lot of fuss lately about shale gas, which has become increasingly important in the past decade, ...