There are fears that hydraulic fracturing used to extract shale gas could be behind water contamination in the US. These fears have been a touchstone of anti-fracking protests around the world. New ...

Fracking companies used 770 percent more water per well in 2016 than in 2011 across all the United States’ major gas- and oil-producing regions, according to a new study. The number of new fracking ...

Fracking – hailed by some as the greatest recent advance in energy production, criticised by others for the threat it poses to local life – continues to divide opinion. The term fracking refers to the ...

Pump jacks are seen in the Midway Sunset oilfield in California, April 29, 2013. The nearby vast Monterey shale formation is estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration to hold 15 billion ...

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a technique used to get oil and gas out of the ground. Water, sand and a cocktail of chemicals are pumped deep underground at high pressure to open up ...

Cuadrilla's oil drilling operation in Balcombe has become the focus for anti-fracking protests Recent studies from the US have again raised questions about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or ...

The wastewater is a mixture of the injected freshwater, fracking chemicals, and deep formation water, which is usually briny and often mildly radioactive. It can't be recycled for typical water uses, ...

Not only is fracking a massive threat to the UK's water, argues John Ward - it's a dead-end technology that will make us pay a heavy price for going precisely nowhere in energy terms. Fracking is ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Ohio news every morning. The use of underground wells to dispose of waste water produced by fracking – the process used to unlock oil ...

Drinking water could be contaminated with methane gas and chemicals due to fracking, water companies have warned. Water UK, which represents all major UK water suppliers, said the shale gas extraction ...

Recent studies from the US have again raised questions about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on water supplies. These show that chemicals, including methane and arsenic, have been ...