A contract between the Nova Scotia government and Dalhousie University for an onshore natural gas program shows the majority ...

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 ...

Even with a fracking boom, China will not become a gas exporter. It expects to consume 550 billion cubic metres of gas a year ...

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

General Electric Company announced $10 billion of clean energy investments, and fracking is front and center. With natural gas fracking at the forefront of energy and environmental debates, here's how ...

A pair of House Democrats say the state should change the way it taxes the fracking industry, a move that would generate billions of dollars of additional revenue for the state. At the same time, the ...

Pendle councillors have re-affirmed their opposition to gas fracking, as the topic re-emerged in Lancashire and in national politics. Fracking – or hydraulic fracturing – is an underground process ...

CUTLINES - PITTSBURGH - President Barack Obama's speech this week on climate change forcefully rejected some key arguments made by opponents of natural gas fracking, upsetting some environmental ...