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

A possible correlation between fracking and radon has been studied several times, but whether there's a link remains an ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...