Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. This article is more than 3 years old. Pumping water mixed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Massive frac-pumping equipment in a modern Marcellus gas ...

A survey finds water wells near fracking sites six times more likely to be contaminated in Northeast Methane%2C ethane and propane turned up near the natural gas drilling sites%2C in about 7%25 of ...

A new study of well water in northeastern Pennsylvania suggests that naturally occurring pathways could have allowed salts and gases from the Marcellus shale formation deep underground to migrate up ...

An Ohio State University led study has pinpointed the likely source of most natural gas contamination in drinking-water wells associated with hydraulic fracturing as the walls of the gas well and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hydraulic Fracturing, also known as frac’ing, is the process of using high pressure fluids to crack rock formations thousands of feet below the surface in ...

Sen. James Inhofe says there has never been “an instance of ground water contamination” caused by hydraulic fracturing — fracking — for oil and natural gas. Inhofe’s office told us he is referring ...

Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

Defenders of gas exploration done with hydraulic fracturing say there's never been been a case of drinking-water contamination linked to the process. After extensive research, some Duke University ...

PITTSBURGH -- At least two gas wells near a community that's complained of sudden drinking water pollution developed casing problems during the drilling process, but neither Rex Energy Corp. nor state ...

James Gillin was at his home in the hamlet of New Freeport when a neighbor came looking for him. “He came down because he knows I work for the gas company. And he found a geyser in his yard,” Gillin ...