Hydro-fracking is a process where exploration companies inject a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground, creating cracks in shale rock formations. That process allow ...

Environmentalists worry that Toronto's drinking water could be threatened by the nearby treatment of toxic wastewater in New York State. Residents on both sides of the border worry about the potential ...

Transnational corporations are heavily pressuring Mexico to open up its energy sector as part of the official review this year of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada ...

Pemex estimates that Mexico holds far larger reserves in non-conventional formations than in conventional ones. The government is now weighing whether those resources can be developed without ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according ...

Over the two decades since fracking started near their lands, farmers in the Mexican state of Veracruz have watched their orange and lime trees wilt away. However, it also had around 8,500 ...

WILLIAMSPORT — The state Department of Environmental Protection has assessed a $60,000 civil penalty on the Lycoming County firm for the discharge of 16,000 gallons of oil and natural gas liquid waste ...