Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of injecting water, sand, and/or chemicals into a well to break up underground bedrock to free up oil or gas reserves.
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The potential use of fracking continues to divide West Australians, particularly in the Kimberley
As WA's EPA assesses a proposal to drill and frack in the Kimberley's Canning Basin, groups call for WA Labor to enforce a ...
Editor's note: This is part 2 in a two-part series on managing Bakken byproducts. Part 1 can be found here. Water is a vital part of the complex lifeline that makes drilling in the Bakken oil play so ...
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Controversies over the fracking process may be inevitable, a former administrator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged recently, but Wisconsin can protect ...
Environmentalists, natural gas drillers' group divided on transparency on fracking fluid disclosures
An area environmental organization sees Pennsylvania’s new requirement that natural gas drillers reveal the chemicals in fracking fluids earlier in the drilling process as “long overdue.” A trade ...
Clinicians urged to be aware of fracking-related health problems Chemical contamination, community disruption and negative psychological effects among health problems associated with hydraulic ...
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Amid the growing water shortage in West Texas, the Texas Legislature has given oil and gas companies the opportunity to reuse wastewater created during the oil fracking ...
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