Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. To many, it’s still a surprise just how big a modern frac ...

The community group Save the Aurora Reservoir is getting ready to make its final case to oppose the Sunlight Long Well. But ...

HOUSTON, April 9 - U.S. oil major Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian basin, ...

Vicki Austin says her West Deer neighborhood can get pretty loud. Austin’s home is about 850 feet from EQT’s Leto fracking ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

A public meeting will be held this week to get public input about a controversial fracking well that oil and gas company Civitas wants to build near the Aurora Reservoir, and neighbors are once again ...

The years-long battle over a second injection well in Plum will continue. That’s because oil company Penneco Environmental Solutions filed an appeal in Allegheny County Court on Friday to the Plum ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 9,000 new acres of state-owned land have been made available for fracking, as a result of a decision by the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission. The designated land ...

A flare from a fracking well burns off excess gas near a home. There are 225 active wells located on 30 well pads in Allegheny County, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...