The fracturing of rocks to mine more fossil fuels was born with the oil business, writes the Canadian journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, in Slick Water. During the world's first oil boom in Pennsylvania in ...

Provincial Energy Minister Andrew Younger said the volume of concern from the public was enough to warrant an indefinite ban on the technology and to introduce legislation this October prohibiting ...

The simplified operating system and robust technology of DriFlow X create a unique opportunity for partnership with the pumping company, allowing frac to take the wheel in applying dry FR on the fly.

Six years ago, Bryan Latkanich agreed to let an energy company tap natural gas beneath his property using fracking. Soon after, the well water at his property in rural Deemston, Pa., started tasting ...

More than a dozen years after the controversial documentary Gasland made Dimock, Pennsylvania, the poster child for the dangers of fracking, the successor to the company responsible for poisoning ...

Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers. Increasingly complex oil wells are sweeping across Texas, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it cannot decisively say if fracking poses a threat to drinking water after saying in a previous draft that it did not pose any harm, according to ...

DALLAS — Texas is in the midst of a water crisis, and the state is looking everywhere for new sources of clean water. And when we say everywhere, we mean everywhere. The state is inching closer to ...

Texas is facing a major water shortage. The state’s population is projected to grow 73% by 2070, while its water supply is expected to shrink by 18%. Already, aging infrastructure is leaking over ...