Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the ...

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:01:05 GMT — Environmentalists, activists and a crowd of people with questions filled Syracuse's Palace Theater before "Gasland" started. Hydrofracking, which injects high pressure ...

Hydrofracking, which has stirred much controversy in the Southern Tier of New York State, is on Western New York’s radar screen, and planners are taking note, preparing to adopt regulations that would ...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:42:30 GMT — A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency says groundwater monitoring wells in Pavillion, Wyoming show high levels of cancer causing compounds and chemicals ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been the subject of numerous pieces investigative journalism, a popular and Oscar-nominate documentary, a slew of YouTube videos of flaming faucets, and even a ...

The conference, Hydrofracking: Exploring the Legal Issues in the Context of Politics, Science and the Economy, was held March 28-29, 2011, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law and The ...

The state is admittedly in desperate financial shape. Nevertheless, I challenge the recent, it-won't-happen-here declaration out of Albany, regarding natural gas hydrofracking: "We are going to do ...

Representatives of faculty and student groups at SUNY Cortland will offer a teach-in on the subject of a newer form of natural gas drilling that is likely coming to Upstate New York, on Wednesday, Nov ...

George Whipple, a Nobel Peace Prize physician, stated in 1908 that if we "by increasing our capital in the form of mills and factories [and mines], decrease it in the form of natural water resources, ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a completion technique that pumps high-pressure fluid and proppant into a low-permeability reservoir to create and prop open fractures, increasing flow paths so oil can move to ...

I really did not want to write another article concerning hydrofracking, but after seeing the latest Viewpoint column by Patricia O’Reilly Rush (Oct. 25) suggesting we should fear developing natural ...

Hydraulic fracturing — fracking — is a dangerous, wrongheaded and unacceptable practice. It perpetuates our dependence on finite fossil fuels, threatens our environment and provides a temporary ...