Plans for a "mini fracking" site in Burniston near Scarborough have been rejected by North Yorkshire Council following local ...

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

Opponents of the plan said they would meet this week to decide what, if any, further action they would take to prevent the ...

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says some anti-fracking protesters at a consultation session on the province's onshore gas ...

ARLINGTON, TEXAS — In early December, drilling resumed near Mother’s Heart Learning Center. Newly installed gas wells dot property at 2020 S. Watson Road, less than one mile from the day care. One day ...

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 ...

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

The Houston government’s pursuit of fracking exploration has led to a reunion of a once successful opposition movement.

A bill to ban CO2 fracking has passed in both the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate, and now awaits approval on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk. The Assembly bill, sponsored by ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...