Fracking: some call it one of the greatest innovations of the last fifty years. Others insist it’s an environmental disaster. Who is right? Linnea Lueken, research fellow at the Heartland Institute, ...
U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...
300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.
Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the production potential of oil and gas wells by making it possible to access ...