The Tennessean The Cumberland Forest, a field-research area established in 1947 in Morgan and Scott counties, could become the site of a drilling partnership between the University of Tennessee and a oil and gas company. ... This highly productive yet highly ...
Opelousas Daily World Because of the volatile nature of many of the products they make, explosions, chemical releases and other accidents are real threats. Emergency officials say they're well- drilled to respond but residents do worry about what can happen next door. (Page ... and more »
Stock Journal "So they say leaking methane has been seeping out of the seams all along and it has nothing to do with drilling holes." Gas wells ... "We can't draw any conclusions on that, but we know people are ill, and we know there is gas leaking chemicals from ... and more »
Forbes Manufacturers need five years to ramp up domestic plants being built to take advantage of America's glut of cheap shale gas, according to a Dow Chemical executive, and the country should be careful not to undercut them by depleting that supply with ...
Modesto Bee Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes of water , fine sand and chemicals into the ground to crack open valuable shale formations. But now, as energy companies vie to ... and more »
Telegraph.co.uk One evening, watching a lecture on YouTube about new cancer therapies, I spotted a poster in the background of the video with a link that had led me, via a chain of other websites, to a footnote in an academic paper, which mentioned the undeveloped ...
Troy Media ... it's enough to make a big impact on the overall manufacturing picture. Food processing also slipped in April, but that was more than offset with gains in chemical manufacturing and lumber production. Energy ... Part of the reason for this may have ...
Forbes The losers, it adds, would be the chemical makers like Dow Chemical while the winners would be the domestic natural gas producers such as Chesapeake Energy and ExxonMobil. Economically speaking, the United States, for now, has a huge lead over the ... and more »
The Seattle Times Massive reserves of so-called Utica shale — a source of not just natural gas but also liquid petroleum products that can be feedstuffs for specialized fuels and chemical manufacturing — have been discovered in this very area (including a swath of ... and more »
The Guardian Green groups opposed to fracking because of the chemicals used and because they believe more gas use means more carbon emissions have already condemned Ce...
