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

In any battle over fracking, transnational corporations would be well-positioned to overpower local resistance.

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

"What happens is over that long period of time the stresses can increase in and around that well bore, and if the rate of injection is too fast or if there is a geological feature ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has shut down a fracking well in Noble County due to recent earthquake activity, and is investigating the well and the seismic activity near it.

Two campaign groups have urged councillors to block fracking plans later this week for the village of Burniston in North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Developers have requested more land for oil and gas fracking in the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio after the Ohio Oil ...

Councillors have opposed controversial plans to drill and frack for gas in the village of Burniston, near Scarborough.

Ecuador is pushing to increase its production of crude oil but faces a backlash from environmentalists and Indigenous groups.

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 ...