*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The rocky ground deep beneath Southern Illinois will soon be wrung like a sponge to yield previously unreachable oil and natural ...

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The controversial process of "fracking" will be halted in England due to the risks of triggering earthquakes when trying to tap shale gas reserves, the British government announced Saturday. The ...

After a year-long review of the data, the EPA has concluded that fracking poses a systemic danger to clean groundwater. But it's not necessarily inherent to the technology of fracking itself. Human ...

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The UK government has ordered a new report into the controversial drilling process of fracking. The government has asked the British Geological Survey to advise on the latest scientific evidence ...

The Government's plan to establish the UK shale gas industry through the controversial process of fracking is proving hugely costly and is taking longer than expected, according to the National Audit ...

Oklahoma, a place known for its devastating tornados, is now registering more earthquakes than states famous for them. The US Geological Survey has identified part of the fracking process as the ...

It may seem like an unlikely place, but the quintessentially English village of Balcombe in the southeastern county of Sussex, has become the scene of an emotional war over fracking. More than a ...

A renewable energy firm has submitted planning applications for schemes to generate "green gas" from grass - on sites where fracking is planned Ecotricity has put in the applications for green gas ...

The process of fracking involves pipes being laid, anything up to two miles, away from the drilling site. Could you stop the pipes being laid underneath your land? Dr Elen Stokes, who lectures in ...