When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio ...

Fracking operations along the Front Range of Colorado. Fracking operations are at the center of the shale revolution which has transformed the US energy picture in the past 20 years. Fracking has also ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

Jill Hunkler is a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident who says her home was affected by fracking well unitization. automation When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...