Hydro-fracking is a process where exploration companies inject a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground, creating cracks in shale rock formations. That process allow ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting oil and gas by cracking underground rocks – is about to stage a comeback.

The process of hydraulic fracturing used to extract shale gas is a contentious issue across the world. The proposal to frack Fermanagh has met with considerable opposition in the local area and across ...

Shale gas has begun flowing for the first time from a controversial fracking site in Lancashire. On Friday, energy firm Cuadrilla said it had begun to see natural gas flow to the surface at its site ...

Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of British lawmakers has called for a moratorium on shale gas fracking, saying developing the unconventional gas resources was incompatible with targets to fight climate ...

The UK’s only two shale wells are to be abandoned, ending more than a decade of controversy over fracking in this country. Energy company Cuadrilla said the UK Government’s Oil and Gas Authority(OGA) ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cuadrilla Resources, a UK shale gas company, will improve monitoring of earth tremors at its drilling sites, over a year after the government ordered it to stop hydraulic fracturing ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...