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Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer, as a result of the action of a pressurized fluid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally—certain veins or dikes are examples—and can create conduits along which gas and petroleum from source rocks may migrate to reservoir rocks. Induced Hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking, commonly known as fraccing or fracking, is a technique used to release petroleum, natural gas (including shale gas, tight gas, and coal seam gas), or other substances for extraction. This type of fracturing creates fractures from a wellbore drilled into reservoir rock formations.
The first use of Hydraulic fracturing was in 1947 but the modern fracking technique, called horizontal slickwater fracking, that made the extraction of shale gas economical was first used in 1998 in the Barnett Shale in Texas. The energy from the injection of a highly pressurized fracking fluid creates new channels in the rock, which can increase the extraction rates and ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons.
Proponents of fracking point to the economic benefits from vast amounts of formerly inaccessible hydrocarbons the process can extract. Opponents point to potential environmental impacts, including contamination of ground water, risks to air quality, the migration of gases and Hydraulic fracturing chemicals to the surface, surface contamination from spills and flowback and the health effects of these. For these reasons Hydraulic fracturing has come under scrutiny internationally, with some countries suspending or even banning it.
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Upstream Online
March 21, 2018
However, this figure is expected to be significantly lower as shale gas explorers have been met by protests in England, and a fracking ban in Scotland. Greenpeace said the government has conceded that the 155 wells figure is now considered “out of date”, but it refused to release the internal report,Ãâà...
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
March 21, 2018
“Well-known hazardous air pollutants are being found near fracking sites and may be contributing to health outcomes that are being experienced by people living near fracking sites,” said Kwiatkowski, a co-author of the study. “The endocrine disrupting chemicals that are found at these sites may beÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
March 21, 2018
Many fracking and coal mining sites were visited in Belmont, Noble, Monroe and Guernsey Counties including the Exxon-owned XTO Schnegg well site near Powhatan Point that exploded February 15th and was recently capped after leaking for 23 days. The tour was organized by Columbus CommunityÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
March 21, 2018
An attorney for the anti-fracking group East Boulder County United has sent a letter to the city of Lafayette suggesting possible legal action regarding the city's Climate Bill of Rights that was passed last year, albeit without a provision that would protect protesters from legal consequences. Last year, theÃâà...
WOSU
March 21, 2018
HB 393, which was introduced in October, would allow for the sale of fracking brine for surface applications, like deicing roadways during Ohio's slick winters. The bipartisan bill is co-sponsored by Republican state Rep. Anthony Devitis and Democrat state Rep. Michael O'Brien. O'Brien says a particularÃâà...
San Diego Entertainer Magazine
March 20, 2018
Fracking has been in the news for the past decade or so, causing controversy between those who feel it is detrimental and damaging to the environment, and those who see it as untapped potential in recovering gas and oil. So what is fracking? Fracking involves drilling deep down into the earth andÃâà...
WKSU News
March 20, 2018
Leland says he understands the economic value of fracking for natural gas in Ohio, but “we've got to have little spots of land in the state of Ohio that don't have to be subjected to fracking. We can run an economy, we can get our energy needs in the state of Ohio and still preserve the state parks and natureÃâà...
Olean Times Herald
March 17, 2018
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Common Council have officially announced their support of efforts to stop the dumping of wastewater produced by fracking into the Allegheny River through a treatment plan in Pennsylvania. In a statement at Wednesday's meeting, council member Timothy Flanigan,Ãâà...
Aspen Times
March 17, 2018
We've all seen the television ads that tell us fracking is safe. Whatever happened to truth in advertising? The chemicals used in fracking vary. A power point by the Physicians for Social Responsibility reads they include carcinogens like benzene, toluene, arsenic, neurotoxins, and endocrine disruptingÃâà...
Environmental Working Group
March 17, 2018
Fracking for oil and gas poses an impending health crisis in the U.S., two leading groups of health professionals warn in a new report. Not only do existing fracking regulations fail to protect Americans from increased risk of cancer, asthma and birth defects, but there is no evidence fracking can ever be doneÃâà...
Public News Service
March 16, 2018
The compendium of research papers and investigative reports says regulations cannot make fracking safe. (anita_starzycka/Pixabay). March 16, 2018. HARRISBURG, Pa. – The fifth Fracking Health Compendium finds that the oil and gas drilling technique poses high risks to food, water and the climate, and cannot be doneÃâà...
IFLScience
March 16, 2018
Technically known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking is designed to open up passageways to reservoirs of natural gas or oil. It's also deeply controversial, and a new comprehensive report – spotted by Rolling Stone – has brought all these hazards to human health together. Publishing their layman-readable,Ãâà...
Public News Service
March 15, 2018
BISMARCK, N.D. — Health professionals have released their fifth compilation of data and reports showing the risks of fracking. Over the past five editions, scientific and medical findings in the compendium have grown, adding weight to the argument that oil and gas drilling are harmful to communities.
The Heartland Institute
March 15, 2018
The state of California, environmental organizations, and several tribal groups filed a lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke, seeking to force the agency to enforce rules regulating fracking on federal lands imposed in 2015 by the InteriorÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 14, 2018
"Our examination…uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not threaten human health," states a blistering 266-page report released today by Concerned Health Professionals of New York and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Sonoma West
March 13, 2018
In The New Wild West, award-winning journalist Blaire Briody recounts the story of a small farm town in North Dakota that has recently been ravished by oil companies. This timely book is a definitive account of what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town withÃâà...
Greeley Tribune
March 13, 2018
Greeley Indivisible on Wednesday will host a roundtable discussion on the health effects of fracking. The meeting is 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at Joe Molina Studio and Gallery, 930 8th Ave., according to a news release. The discussion will center on the planned oil and gas development near Bella RomeroÃâà...
The Coloradoan
March 13, 2018
Fracking isn't contained on the small plots of land we see from the highway. Windy days carry its chemicals right into our neighborhoods. You may hear that 99.5 percent of fracking waste is benign, however, some highly toxic chemicals used in mining can contaminate an Olympic-sized swimming pool withÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
March 11, 2018
... politics behind this industry? Why are the wells nearer to a school with a higher percentage of students living in poverty? I'm taken aback that fracking wells dotting our district's borders is the new normal. In east Boulder County, we need the city's help in protecting our children, our schools, our livelihoods.
Westword
March 10, 2018
A 23-year-old anti-fracking activist and student at Colorado State University was arrested today on two charges of tampering with oil and gas equipment and second-degree criminal trespassing after protesting at a drilling site near Bella Romero Academy, a middle school in Greeley. Cullen Lobe was stillÃâà...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
March 8, 2018
DENVER — Lawmakers' disagreement over oil and gas development returned to the Colorado Legislature on Wednesday as committees in both chambers killed two bills aimed at fracking and public safety. In the GOP-controlled Senate, the Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy Committee killed a billÃâà...
CleanTechnica
March 8, 2018
Fracking will make the United States the largest supplier of oil and gas in the world by 2023, Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency said at the CERAWeek energy conference hosted by IHS Markit in Houston last week. “What is happening in the US between now and 2025 [is] a hugeÃâà...
The Guardian
March 8, 2018
The application by Ineos to explore for shale gas in South Yorkshire has been rejected by local councillors, bringing the number of planning decisions that have gone against fracking companies this year to seven. Rotherham metropolitan borough turned the application by the UK-based petrochemicals firmÃâà...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
While Third Energy has said fracking will still happen “on completion of the approval process”, it has been confirmed it will not go ahead until the autumn. The company said on Wednesday it had decided to release further equipment from the site while the financial resilience review was taking place. It said itÃâà...
Chron.com
March 6, 2018
Halliburton Co., the world's largest fracking company, has grown its fleet of pressure pumping equipment by 700,000 horsepower over the past year, a giant growth spurt that comes as U.S. drillers pump more crude from shale plays. That surge brings the Houston oil field service company's high-pressureÃâà...
TIME
March 6, 2018
U.S. oil and natural gas is on the verge of transforming the world's energy markets for a second time, further undercutting Saudi Arabia and Russia. The widespread adoption of fracking in the U.S. opened billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to production and transformed theÃâà...
BBC News
March 2, 2018
Anti-fracking campaigners have decided to dismantle a protest camp in North Yorkshire. The camp at Kirby Misperton was established in 2016 after Third Energy was granted planning permission to frack for shale gas at the site. The company is still waiting final consent from the government and has movedÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 2, 2018
No Fracking. No Tar Sands." The 21-page report drew from documents submitted in the fall by Twitter and Facebook, which owns Instagram, for congressional investigations into the social media influence campaign during the 2016 presidential election. Those probes focused on the efforts by the InternetÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 2, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency said the two actions would reduce "significant and immediate compliance concerns" for the energy industry. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File). The Environmental Protection Agency announced two piecemeal actions on Thursday to reduce costs and regulatoryÃâà...
Hartford Courant
March 2, 2018
To what extent does it implicate the enterprise of fracking (high-volume hydraulic fracturing for shale gas) in 2018? The photo immediately postdates the great acceleration in shale gas fracking between 2004 and 2011 stimulated by advances in drilling technology. Things have slowed down since.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
March 2, 2018
In “The Fracking Debate,” he wades through numerous studies on controversial oil- and gas-related issues to offer nuanced answers to the questions people at dinner parties often ask him about fracking. One of those questions is whether shale development is good or bad for the climate. The answer, heÃâà...
KGOU
March 1, 2018
Data suggest fracking-linked shaking can be reduced if companies act quickly and pause their operation before small quakes set off bigger ones. The new rules expand guidelines released in December 2016, when state regulators first moved to address earthquakes set off by fracking in addition to onesÃâà...
Food and Water Watch
March 1, 2018
After an organized movement of anti-fracking advocates united to oppose the first fracking proposal in Illinois last year, the fracking company abandoned its venture proving, once again, that people power wins campaigns. However, in order to fully protect Illinois communities from the ambitions of theÃâà...
Science Daily
February 28, 2018
"Our research shows that this risk is greatly reduced if injection points in fracking boreholes are situated at least 895m away from geological faults." The latest findings go further than a 2017 ReFINE study which recommended a maximum distance of 433m between horizontal boreholes and geological faultsÃâà...
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
February 28, 2018
A set of bills introduced this month in the Illinois legislature would update the state's fracking law to increase protections for land owners and require more information from oil and gas companies applying for fracking permits. Organizers from several environmental groups held a press conference TuesdayÃâà...
The Guardian
February 27, 2018
The modern version of fracking came of age in the late 1990s, unlocking oil and gas reserves across more than 20 US states. As a result, US oil production has increased faster than at anytime in the country's history, dwarfing the giddy days of the country's black gold rush in the 19th century. About half ofÃâà...
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