Evansville Courier & Press On the other hand, there is something known as “high pressure, high volume, hydraulic fracturing”, and it's a process that's used during the completion of a well that has already been drilled . I got a kick out of a news story I read last week about an ...
Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a chemical warfare drill in Jerusalem May 29, 2013. Photo: Amos Ben Gershon / GPO. On an ordinary workday last week, strident sirens pierced our routine and for a ... Were the family of nations as high-minded as it ...
USA TODAY SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois came a giant step closer to approving the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling on Friday, as...
Longmont Daily Times-Call An "emergency community meeting to defend Boulder County from hydraulic fracturing," organized by several groups and individuals opposed to the process of injecting sand, water and chemicals to free up underground oil and gas deposits, is set for 2 to ... and more »
Bakersfield Californian Since the early 1980s, the regional water board has waived a requirement that oil companies file for a waste discharge permit before disposing of drilling fluid into unlined ponds. The idea was that drilling fluid, a term that encompasses any chemical ...
Allentown Morning Call Folk singer Dave Fry and a Parkland High School music group called Boss Tweed were among other artists who turned out to express their fears about fracking — a drilling practice that extracts natural gas from Marcellus Shale deposits found thousands ...
New York Times (blog) Driven by advances in drilling technology and high oil prices, oil companies are increasingly moving into traditionally agricultural areas like S...
Enterprise-Record Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, said his AB999 would save the state money in the long run by reducing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, which he called "a tragic reality of life in prison." A pilot program ... Kevin de Leon ... and more »
Lansing State Journal That is exactly why Michigan's rules must be updated to keep pace with a new wave of drilling technology, and with the staggering increase in toxic chemicals being used in these new wells through the process known as horizontal underground hydraulic ... and more »
Businessweek In the summer of 2008, two natural gas import terminals opened along the U.S. Gulf Coast: one in Freeport, Tex., and the other about 140 miles northeast n...