Lone Pine estimates that its permit for gas exploration under Quebec's St. Lawrence River covered an area containing as much as 3.3 billion cubic feet of undiscovered shale—a highly lucrative prospect ...

JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. Opponents of the controversial drilling technique hydraulic fracturing are celebrating several key victories ...

While man-made earthquakes in the central United States have been linked to disposal of drilling wastewater, a new paper links a growing pattern of quakes in western Canada to the specific practice of ...

Since 2008, the United States has become the world’s leading producer of oil and gas, largely due to advances in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The process, which involves using high-pressure ...