Financial Times The combination of horizontal drilling – sending wells thousands of feet sideways from the rig – and hydraulic fracturing – pumping water, sand and chemicals into wells at high pressure to crack the rock and let the oil and gas flow out – has made it ...
Huffington Post The anti-fracking movement has inspired a legion of people like Rapp and Scroggins— idiosyncratic true believers, many of them middle-aged women, who hav...
The Guardian Britain's offshore rigs and platforms have leaked oil or other chemicals into the North Sea on 55 occasions over the past month alone, challenging claims by the industry that it has a strong safety and environmental record. Among the fields to have ... and more »
Daily Tribune News After a successful training exercise involving CSX, BCFD and other Bartow County first responder agencies, the railroad company extended an invitation to two BCFD HAZMAT team members for a weeklong training at the Security & Emergency Response Training ...
Grand Junction Sentinel Some other forms of proppants, such as ceramic particles, sometimes are used in fracking, but Encana isn't using any proppant substitutes for sand. Nor is it adding any new chemicals or increasing the use of any existing additives to make up for the sand.
The Ledger Both companies began talking about a joint venture last year to expand production and distribution of natural, biodegradable chemicals for use in fracking and other oil drilling procedures, Snively said. Fracking is a drilling technique involving the ...
Israel Hayom The Kremlin has also cast aspersions over the West's claims that Assad's forces have used chemical weapons against the rebels, of which there is mounting proof (just as Russia cannot see any evidence of weaponization in Iran's nuclear program, despite ... and more »
Press TV Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement on June 15 that US F-16 aircraft and Patriot missile batteries would stay in Jordan after the end of the jo...
Williamsport Sun-Gazette One of the personal accounts that Fox relayed is that of Randy Moyer of Portage, a truck driver who says that the gas drilling chemicals have ruined his life. "He's a truck ... Root said that Fox and other anti-gas drilling activists aren't the real ...
Huffington Post The group taught consumers about chemicals and toxins that have become commonplace for non-organic foods. Although ... been using his fame to call attention to this ...
