The provincial government kicked off the consultations more than a year after lifting a ban on fracking that was in place for ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a report that also ...

In any battle over fracking, transnational corporations would be well-positioned to overpower local resistance.

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 ...

PITTSBURGH - More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are scheduled to take place around the world on Saturday, building on public concerns but also using an ...