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

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

"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 ...

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

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

Plans to open a 'mini fracking' site in Burniston, North Yorkshire, were met with outrage from campaigners and residents ...

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 ...

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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 ...

As earthquakes increase in East Texas and Louisiana, scientists are investigating whether oil and gas operations in the Haynesville shale formation are to blame.