WRAL.com Water quality is a concern with relation to fracking because critics say methane and other chemicals used in, or released by, the process could seep into local water supplies. The federal grant would have helped establish a baseline for those chemicals ...
Denver Business Journal (blog) It's been a contentious issue along Colorado's Front Range for about two years, as drilling rigs have edged closer to suburban neighborhoods in the search for oil locked in the Niobrara formation several thousand feet underground. Some local ... and more »
Santa Cruz Sentinel ... have to reveal the chemicals they use to extract oil and gas, nor is the state given explicit notice of where and when the drilling is to take place. The rules to protect groundwater from fracking are considered more lenient in California than many ...
San Francisco Chronicle A new study in the journal Science finds that the number of temblors shaking the central and eastern United States has soared in recent years, ev...
WBRC Companies retrieve the natural gas via fracking, which is accomplished by drilling to the shale formation and blasting the shale with a mixture of water, chemicals and other materials to fracture the shale, allowing the gas to rise to the surface. The ... and more »
Santa Monica Mirror Getting that oil out would require hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, a process involving high-pressure underground injection of water and chemicals . No one has yet ... But there is no doubt oil drilling companies would need a reliable source of ... and more »
Heritage Newspapers Other bills include H.B. 4900, sponsored by Irwin, that requires drilling companies to disclose the chemicals used in the fracking process. Chemicals such as benzene, naphthalene and ethylene glycol, which have proven health risks, have been used ... and more »
Montgomery Advertiser The narratives laid out by the bits of broken crockery, petite medicine bottles, type from a printing press and other artifacts include the block's role as a small outpost on the bluff overlooking the Black Warrior River, a commercial center in the ...
Stuff.co.nz With Karen, a survival plan was devised, between doctors probing, nurses testing, orderlies whisking me off for scans, daily bouts of radiotheraphy, and a bone sample being drilled out of my pelvis. A primary tumour was found, in the stomach. A map of ... and more »
Truth-Out High-volume hydraulic horizontal fracturing, better known as fracking, requires per well three to nine million gallons of fresh water, about 10,000 tons of sil...
