WILLIAMSPORT — The state Department of Environmental Protection has assessed a $60,000 civil penalty on the Lycoming County firm for the discharge of 16,000 gallons of oil and natural gas liquid waste ...

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals and sand. During the process, a solution of pressurized water, chemicals and ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

In the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the City Council of Arlington on Tuesday approved plans by French energy giant TotalEnergies to drill 10 new gas wells near a daycare center, ...

Staff photo / Ed Runyan This photo was taken in early September of the new EAP Ohio horizontal oil and gas well at the corner of state Route 45 and Leffingwell Road in Ellsworth Township, west of ...

Councillors have opposed controversial plans to drill and frack for gas in the village of Burniston, near Scarborough.

People are also reading… The process, also known as fracking, blasts millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals, some of them carcinogens, deep into the earth to free gas from dense ...

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