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Fracking Poised to Resume in UK, 6 Years After Tremors Halted the Practice

Six years after Britain's first fracking operation was stymied by earth tremors, its shale gas industry is poised to try again with a technology that could transform the UK gas market and drastically ...

Texas Earthquakes Tied Extraction in Fracking: Study

A recent wave of small earthquakes in and around the Eagle Ford formation in Texas was probably the result of extracting oil and in some cases water used for hydraulic fracturing, according to a ...

Study Raises New Concern About Earthquakes’ Links To Fracking Fluids

Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes ...