Council officials have been accused of giving misleading advice on controversial plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston, near Scarborough.

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

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas activity in northeast B.C. Dr. Ulrike Meyer, a Dawson Creek, B.C. family ...

The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

In recent pages of the Canton Repository, a supposed scientist representing Save Ohio Parks drummed up scare tactics around fracking. Fracking is a big deal here because we have the natural resources ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

PERTH, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A controversial fracking plan in Western Australia’s remote and ecologically delicate Kimberley region was approved by the state’s environmental protection authority on ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

Oil and gas drilling is now allowed on more Ohio wildlife areas. The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic fracturing. Also ...

Environmental advocates claim that Sen. Brian Chavez pushed legislation that would benefit him and his family, and failed to disclose financial ties to at least five oil and gas companies.