The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth dates back to the 1940s, but only in the past few years has "fracking" become an energy buzzword, alluding primarily to the ...

For over 40 years the nation’s oil and gas industry has been releasing natural gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Recently, however, this process has been ...

"Hydraulic fracturing is a well-stimulation technique used commonly in low-permeability rocks like tight sandstone, shale, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California’s oil and gas regulator submitted its final regulations banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to the state’s Office of Administrative Law on Monday. This is the ...

While environmentalists worry about polluting the water table and heightening seismic activity through hydraulic fracturing, fracking seems to become more environmentally sensitive each year.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a toxic technique that blasts huge amounts of water mixed with hazardous chemicals into the earth, fracturing underground rock to release oil and gas.

The measure would immediately block a Texas company that wants to use the method as an alternative to hydraulic fracturing with a water-based solution. The bill passed in the state Assembly on ...

A Calgary-based representative of the unconventional gas industry has said he doesn’t know what the economic implications of banning hydraulic fracking would be. “I don’t think anyone really ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kelly Clark HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's government has put forward a bill that would lift blanket bans on uranium exploration and hydraulic fracking of fossil fuels — a move the ...

"Hydraulic fracturing is a well-stimulation technique used commonly in low-permeability rocks like tight sandstone, shale, ...