Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Elizabeth Glass Geltman explains fracking. Professor Elizabeth Glass Geltman explains the process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking".

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With mounting evidence linking hundreds of small earthquakes from Oklahoma to Ohio to the energy industry's growing use of fracking technology, scientists say there is one way to ...