A new study concludes communities near sites of hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” generally benefit from oil and gas production through the procedure. Examining nine of the largest ...

Is natural gas development really safe, well-regulated and generating significant benefits … ? Residents of New Freeport, Greene County, might not agree with letter-writer Dave Callahan, president of ...

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

The subject of fracking has become of great interest and concern to New York residents, especially in light of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s and New York State Department of Environmental Conservations’s ban on ...

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases well deliverability and ultimate recovery by creating high-conductivity flow paths from the reservoir to the wellbore. It sits in the upstream value chain ...

To The Reader’s Forum: Rolland Kidder has written several articles to the op-ed pages in favor of what is commonly called “fracking,” or horizontal drilling for natural gas by fracturing rock and ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to prohibit hydraulic fracturing followed a realignment in the state’s natural-gas distribution system that made the ban unlikely to drive up heating prices for ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...