The Stormont Executive has approved legislation that will permanently end petroleum exploration and licensing, including ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the Earth to release more ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

United States fracking companies are increasingly sending their idle equipment overseas, finding new markets abroad as growth slows in the shale fields of Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere.

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas ...

Ohioans who love their state parks and public lands need to tell the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) to stop fracking them.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...