Fracking news, articles and information:
 | 11/16/2016 - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing to open up bidding for fracking operations in Ohio's only national forest.
An online auction is planned for Dec. 13 that will accept bids of as little as $2 per acre for the first 1,600 of 40,000 acres to be leased to oil and gas developers in Wayne...
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 | 11/8/2016 - There's a big fight going on in the Golden State between the natural gas industry and the public over a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which involves blasting toxic chemicals into the ground to draw up energy resources. Voters will be heading to the polls in just a few short days...
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 | 11/8/2016 - Pennsylvania is ground zero for natural gas "fracking," a controversial energy extraction method that involves blasting chemicals into the ground to break up shale rock and release gas resources. But the Pennsylvania Medical Society recently came out in opposition to the destructive practice, voting...
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| 11/2/2016 - The chemicals used in fracking are a toxic brew of carcinogens that pollute both water and air, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Yale University, and published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
Fracking, a popular name for the drilling practice known as hydraulic...
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 | 10/18/2016 - The term "climate change" is something the Obama Administration likes to repeat, but only to manipulate you into believing that the government cares about the environment. When it comes down to doing business, big oil companies run the show and use the government as a way to rapidly take advantage of...
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 | 10/16/2016 - If you think that there are rules in place limiting the amount of toxic chemicals that can be released into the nation's waters, the Center for Biological Diversity has some bad news for you: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to allow unlimited amounts of fracking wastewater to be dumped...
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 | 10/10/2016 - Over 200 public interest groups working to defend human and environmental health have signed off on a letter to the EPA, questioning the agency's recent claim that hydraulic fracturing is not having "widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States."
Bizarrely, the EPA's...
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 | 9/28/2016 - In 2014, the term "fracking" was unfamiliar to many residents of St. Tammany Parish. But, over the last two and a half years, the oil drilling project planned for the parish has gained enough notoriety that it's now a household word.
Helis Oil & Gas Co.'s fracking project has been the subject of...
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 | 9/8/2016 - The 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Oklahoma earlier this month has spurred state officials to shut down 37 fracking disposal wells over a 725-square mile area. The quake matched a 2011 record for the strongest earthquake in the state's history.
Five months before the quake, the United States...
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| 8/14/2016 - Citizens of the Centennial State will finally get the chance to have their voices heard on the issue of hydraulic fracturing, as two major voter referendums seeking restrictions on the destructive practice head to the November ballot. If passed, Initiatives 75 and 78 would halt all new oil and gas exploration...
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 | 8/13/2016 - Britain's new Prime Minister is considering a modification of its "shale wealth fund" to enable direct payment to individual households near fracking sites rather than to communities – a move that has been described as "bribery" by environmentalists who oppose fracking.
PM Theresa May announced...
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 | 8/13/2016 - The government of Colorado has so far managed to quash efforts to halt the spread of fracking in that state, but come November, residents will finally have the chance to overpower the will of politicians and Big Oil and Gas.
(Article by Lauren McCauley, republished from Commondreams.org)
Petitioners...
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 | 8/13/2016 - America's national forests and parklands are historic treasures, and something we all cherish as publicly-owned and managed green spaces to be enjoyed by all. But they're under attack by the oil and gas industries, which would like nothing more than to exploit these pristine areas for private gain –...
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 | 8/12/2016 - Dozens of endangered marine animals are at risk due to fracking and acid well stimulation off the coast of southern California, according to two environmental non-profits that are threatening suit against the federal government.
The Environmental Defense Center and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper allege...
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 | 8/4/2016 - On Tuesday, July 26, Florida's Environmental Regulation Commission voted 3-2 in favor of passing controversial new water quality standards that will raise the maximum allowable levels of more than two dozen cancer-causing chemicals to be dumped into the state's rivers and streams.
The new standards,...
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 | 8/3/2016 - It may not be what his more conservative supporters want to hear, especially now that gasoline is much more affordable again, and Texas shale oil has reportedly "fought Saudi Arabia to a standstill," but Donald Trump made a good point when he said recently that it should be up to local voters to decide...
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 | 7/30/2016 - Rich in natural resources, Montana is becoming the new stomping ground for fracking, a practice that involves the high-pressure injection of chemical-laden water into rock formations deep underground, releasing oil and gas reserves that were previously unreachable.
Though it has essentially freed...
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 | 7/28/2016 - Most of us want to think of our homes and schools as safe places where families can pass time with minimal exposure to danger. Unfortunately, some residents and school students in Irvine, Kentucky, have suddenly found themselves in an environment more akin to Chernobyl than Appalachian Kentucky.
Denny...
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 | 7/26/2016 10:34:39 AM - Supporters of the Democratic Party have been abandoned, forgotten and left in the dust, as their purported representatives endorse policies that best serve their own interests, while completely ignoring the wants and desires of their constituents.
This was best illustrated at the Democratic National...
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 | 7/26/2016 - Because of the diverse audience we attract, there are a lot of Natural News readers who are still supporting the Democrats. If you're one of those people, it's time for you to question what you're really supporting because you may not be aware that the democratic party openly supports fracking, Monsanto,...
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 | 7/23/2016 - The most recent oil boom that boosted entire economies, sweeping through states like North Dakota, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, was made possible by hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. This drilling technique uses a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to crack rock and unearth...
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 | 7/21/2016 - A giant oilfield located in the Indian reservation territories of Northwest New Mexico caused a major environmental disaster recently, after 36 oil and gas storage tanks caught fire, setting off a chain reaction of explosions that temporarily shut down a major highway and forced at least 55 residents...
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 | 7/14/2016 - A report issued by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) last month showed that the Obama administration issued more than 1,200 licenses for offshore fracking in the years from 2010 to 2014. Those with even the slightest familiarity with the effects of fracking will surely find this outrageous,...
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 | 7/12/2016 - Since 2009, the state of Oklahoma has experienced a drastic increase in earthquakes. The state's yearly average of reported earthquakes in 2009 was a mere 20 per year. In 2015, that average spiked to a shocking two per day.
While environmentalists have had their suspicions for a while, it wasn't...
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| 7/12/2016 - Americans are currently enjoying low oil and gasoline prices, brought about largely by the maturation of a single technology: hydraulic fracturing, a process whereby oil and natural gas is forcefully extracted from rock, using pressurized liquids. And, though the process has been around since 1947,...
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 | 7/9/2016 - The Wayne National Forest (WNF) is located in the hills of southeastern Ohio. It is home to many unique and endangered species including bobcats, Indiana bats, timber rattlesnakes and cerulean warblers. It features over 300 miles of stunning trails for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding.
Soon,...
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| 7/7/2016 - Over the course of his presidency, Barrack Obama transformed from a politician who spoke of the need to wean the country from its dangerous dependence on oil to one who boasted of how much he had done to boost domestic oil drilling.
Now documents obtained via a lawsuit reveal how the administration...
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 | 6/30/2016 - You most likely won't be hearing about flammable tap water or mysterious earthquakes in non-seismic zones in Germany anytime soon. That's because the European country's coalition government recently announced support for an indefinite ban on shale gas fracturing, with the exception of isolated test...
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| 6/27/2016 - Amidst raging concerns over the environmental ramifications of the controversial oil- and natural gas-harvesting technique, lawmakers in the Bay State have proposed enacting a 10-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," opponents of which claim that it is rapidly polluting lakes, rivers...
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| 6/26/2016 - Another study has emerged showing just how enduring the negative impact caused by fracking on the environment actually is. The disturbing results show that toxic fracking chemicals remain in the environment for a very long time, compromising people's food and water for many years to come.
In the...
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 | 6/24/2016 - There's an invasion underway, a constant onslaught of chemical attacks that are more sinister and more life-threatening than faraway armies with tanks. This chemical invasion is occurring on many levels today, and it impacts the cells of many unsuspecting people. The invasion is invisible to the eyes,...
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| 6/15/2016 - The national anti-fracking movement continues to grow as voters have overwhelmingly approved a ban against fracking in Butte County, California - making it the fourth county in the state to pass such legislation.
71 percent of voters supported Measure E, which bans all oil and gas fracking operations...
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| 6/14/2016 - An explosive new federal complaint finally sheds some light on the great mystery of why exactly the EPA, which is tasked with protecting the environment, inexplicably sits back and allows the fracking industry to destroy the earth.
According to the environmental watchdog group NC WARN based out of...
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 | 6/14/2016 - A series of "unusual" landslides that have released massive amounts of toxic sludge into British Columbia's Peace River are suspected to have been caused by fracking operations in the area.
Thanks to these fracking operations,plumes of toxic waste containing heavy metals including lead, arsenic,...
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| 5/30/2016 - The controversial practice of fracking has now been proven to increase the risk of lung and heart disease in children, as reported by Truth Out. Researchers already believe that it leaves American rivers tainted with a toxic cocktail of radium and lead, but this latest study – published in the...
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| 5/19/2016 - The environmental damage and subsequent health risks caused by the fracking industry are far greater than previously thought, according to a recent Duke University study that examined fracking spills in North Dakota.
In North Dakota, around 9,700 oil and gas wells have been drilled in the past decade,...
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| 5/17/2016 - Thousands of spills of fracking wastewater in North Dakota alone, have heavily contaminated rivers and streams with heavy metals, radioactive materials and toxic, corrosive salts, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted by researchers from Duke University, and published in the journal Environmental...
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 | 5/16/2016 - Several environmental groups have joined forces to file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to try to put a stop to the practice of using wastewater from fracking on farmland.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, entails injecting large amounts of water into the earth to break...
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 | 5/12/2016 - The runoff from fracking results in wastewater that is considered too toxic for anyone to drink, so why is it being dumped on farmland instead?
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, entails injecting water, sand and various chemicals underneath the ground to stimulate the flow of gas so that it can...
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 | 5/11/2016 - Mark Ruffalo has become well-known for supporting many environmental organizations in their battle against pro-fracking policies. A popular American actor, director, producer, humanitarian and activist, Ruffalo speaks out against the harmful policies enforced by Big Agri's government ties and other...
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 | 5/10/2016 - The controversial oil and gas mining technique known as fracking, may pose a significant threat to the future of U.S. organic agriculture, according to an analysis conducted by researchers from the FracTracker Alliance, and published in March 2015.
That analysis found that 11 percent of all North...
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| 4/27/2016 - An amazing and, if legitimate, shocking, video out of Australia that is going viral purports to show someone lighting methane gas on fire in an river near a fracking operation.
The video (which you can see here) was reportedly shot in Queensland, where gas was reportedly bubbling up through the Condamine...
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| 4/26/2016 - Although the harm caused by consistent hydraulic fracturing – or fracking, as it is casually known – to the global climate is widely known, for many people, its ill effects are striking much closer to home, as their water and land become poisoned with toxic chemicals released by this destructive...
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| 4/14/2016 - Hillary Clinton's ties to the fracking industry made news again on March 31, when Clinton berated a Greenpeace activist for asking if she would pledge to "reject future fossil fuel money in your campaign."
"I do not have — I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies," Clinton...
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 | 4/7/2016 - Thanks to fracking, upwards of 7 million Americans are at risk of experiencing an earthquake in their own cities and towns.
This scary information comes from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which recently released a map detailing earthquakes that have occurred this year. Because the USGS has observed...
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 | 3/31/2016 - According to statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas now powers about 33 percent of the US electrical grid, but the technique that's used to extract oil from the ground today is much different from the drilling methods of the past. To speed up the process, a high-tech...
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| 3/5/2016 - Since the early 2000s, U.S. government bureaucrats have adopted a welcoming attitude towards hydraulic fracturing. By obtaining oil and gas locally, the country doesn't need to purchase them at an increased cost from other nations. At the same time, jobs are created for an economy that was previously...
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 | 2/25/2016 - For years, scientists and residents of areas where fracking is performed have raised concerns that the controversial mining practice could be causing cancer. Now a direct link has been demonstrated for the first time, in a collaborative study by numerous respected U.S. and Chinese institutions, and...
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| 2/20/2016 - Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, played a major part in the recovery of the American economy after the 2008 crash. In just a few years, fracking made it possible for the price of oil to go down from $100 per barrel to $63 by the end of 2014. Since then, the number has continued to drop, to limits...
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 | 1/30/2016 - Most people take measures to ensure that the items they use in their homes on a daily basis are not on par with things that are considered unsafe for their bodies or the environment.
However, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered that the toxic substances in fracking...
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 | 9/22/2015 - California's farmers have been lured by an affordable water recycling program in which the water used for their crops costs about $33 per square foot. Compare this to the $1,500 per square foot cost of freshwater, and it's easy to see why farmers, whose crops have been hard hit by the state's severe...
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 | 8/31/2015 5:09:30 PM - It's no secret that fracking has the potential to cause horrendous human health problems, mainly due to the fact that it contributes to air and water contamination. The issue is simply one of common sense: Drilling deep into the earth and pumping endless amounts of chemically treated water at various...
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 | 8/20/2015 - As if fracking, or unconventional gas drilling (UGD), is not already steeped in environmental and economic controversy, another problem has developed that points to its detrimental consequences. Sadly, it directly impacts people who are helpless and voiceless in the matter; innocent babies born in fracking...
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 | 8/14/2015 - The health risks associated with unconventional oil and gas drilling (UGOD), i.e. hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," have been of concern to many since the practice became widespread, but until now there has been a shortage of conclusive evidence that such risks actually exist.
A recent study, however,...
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 | 8/1/2015 - A series of shocking new reports reveal that 45,000 acres of California crops are being irrigated with recycled fracking water, with some samples showing levels of petrochemicals higher than those found at oil spill sites.
Even more shocking, the practice of using recycled oil water on crops (which...
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| 6/9/2015 - All that underground blasting by corporations to release natural gas and oil from deep within the earth, a relatively new energy-harvesting technique known as "hydraulic fracturing," is of no concern to the nation's drinking water. This is the politically charged opinion of the Environmental Protection...
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 | 5/22/2015 - It's part of a in nationwide trend among state governments: Quashing local ordinances that tend to curb business interests over concerns about environmental issues.
A recent measure is Texas is a case in point: Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed House Bill 40 into law, which now bans cities from regulating...
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 | 11/18/2014 - It seems as though, with each day that passes, yet another health and environmental hazard is identified as being linked to hydraulic fracking, the process of injecting more than 200 chemicals at high pressure into the ground, shattering rock and releasing one America's most valued resources, natural...
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| 11/15/2014 - The planet's growing dependency on fossil fuels is inadvertently altering our environments in ways scientists are just beginning to understand. Practices like hydraulic fracking not only have adverse environmental effects but have also spurred an economic transformation in the U.S. as the nation distances...
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| 10/29/2014 - By now, Americans are aware that breast cancer exists, thanks to the pink color-branding marketed by the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The foundation has literally "pink washed" the entire month of October, routinely partnering with outside organizations to sell products and raise money for their pink...
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 | 10/8/2014 - The results of a new study regarding the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracking in the Marcellus and Barnett Shales are both interesting and surprising. Completed by researchers from five different universities, the study sought to discover the source of natural gas contamination in drinking-water...
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| 8/23/2014 - Earlier this month, scientists presented groundbreaking research at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) 248th National Meeting and Exposition regarding the potential dangers of hydraulic fracking.
The meeting featured nearly 12,000 presentations on a range of scientific topics. A team of researchers...
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| 7/18/2014 - The petroleum and natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing is becoming more common in the United States, especially in the East. This method injects water, sand, and chemicals deep into rock formations, creating fractures that allow petroleum and natural gas to migrate toward the...
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 | 6/25/2014 - Disrupting shale deep within the earth with millions of gallons of water brought into fracking sites mixed with toxic chemicals that remain secret is like playing survival roulette with local inhabitants and Mother Earth.
The one federal law that could have inhibited this vile practice, the Federal...
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| 6/12/2014 - You could call fracking the earth's combo "vaccine" chock full of 40,000 gallons of toxic chemicals that induce a violent reaction, but instead of a human being going into anaphylactic shock from an unnatural and forced immune response, the earth goes into its own "seizure" -- and it's not pretty.
Hydraulic...
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| 6/9/2014 - Knowledge is power but unfortunately, too many politicians, scientists and other renowned individuals too often see it as a hindrance rather than a benefit.
As the oil production technique known as hydraulic fracturing increases around the country, concerns about what impact "fracking," as it is...
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 | 4/10/2014 - The Bureau of Land Management says its 200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies...
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 | 2/26/2014 - A picturesque Colorado landscape, flowing with brushstrokes of the mighty Rocky Mountains, is being clouded over by smog. Free flowing rivers and healthy groundwater are slowly being contaminated by the emissions of fracking operations. Climate and agriculture, adversely affected by heat-trapping methane...
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| 2/26/2014 - A picturesque Colorado landscape, flowing with brushstrokes of the mighty Rocky Mountains, is being clouded over by smog. Free flowing rivers and healthy groundwater are slowly being contaminated by the emissions of fracking operations. Climate and agriculture, adversely affected by heat-trapping methane...
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| 2/26/2014 - A picturesque Colorado landscape, flowing with brushstrokes of the mighty Rocky Mountains, is being clouded over by smog. Free flowing rivers and healthy groundwater are slowly being contaminated by the emissions of fracking operations. Climate and agriculture, adversely affected by heat-trapping methane...
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 | 2/4/2014 - Hundreds of North Texas residents are demanding answers after a series of minor earthquakes rocked their area over the past several months. CBS Dallas / Fort Worth reports that dozens of folks from the small town of Azle, near Fort Worth, recently gathered down in Austin at the state capitol to push...
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 | 11/8/2013 - Yet another study has linked fracking and similar oil and gas mining practices to earthquakes, this time in Texas.
The new study was conducted by researchers from China University of Geosciences and the University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
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 | 11/7/2013 - Recently, a small town Pennsylvania doctor was denied the right of access to information about specific chemical types and quantities used in fracking to better handle poisoned patients or warn them of the toxic potentials from fracking well sites near them.
Although the gas and oil fracking industry...
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 | 8/20/2013 - Anger is erupting in once sleepy villages, and ordinary people are coming together from all over the UK with the dawning realisation that their green and pleasant land is under threat of long lasting contamination by the government's proposed shale gas 'revolution'.
A Green MP was one of dozens of...
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 | 5/18/2013 - Fracking has turned into an explosive topic at a Colorado school where several staff members may be forced to resign over an informational student presentation. Two young members of the environmental group Earth Guardians educated students at Evergreen Middle School about the dangers of fracking with...
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 | 4/29/2013 - Farmland is tainted. Drinking water turns flammable. And humans along with animals are sick. The cause? Fracking. It's terrorizing the environment, destroying the health of those who live close to the sites and contaminating the food supply. With more than 600,000 fracking wells and waste injection...
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 | 12/23/2011 - For the first time, a federal report has verified that chemicals used in natural gas hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," can, and do, cause groundwater contamination. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued a 121-page draft report on the issue that contain evidence linking...
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| 12/14/2011 - The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.
Something in the water
Pavillion, Wyoming...
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| 9/25/2011 - The natural gas industry and its advocates claim that hydraulic fracturing, the modern technique for extracting natural gas, also known as "fracking," is beneficial to the interests of American energy independence.
However, a simple report recently issued by KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Ark., suggests...
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 | 8/30/2011 - Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent.
But a US Energy Department (ED) advisory panel,...
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| 7/5/2011 - The number of social, political and economic problems we're facing today are nothing short of daunting. With the momentum of privatization of otherwise public works, and even subordinating elected officials to the whim of corporate profiteers as in Benton Harbor, MI, gives some indication of how powerful...
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 | 5/11/2011 - Oil and gas companies are engaged in fracking, a gas drilling process hailed as an economy booster, job creator and greener energy source. However, fracking has propelled hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous, carcinogenic and radioactive chemicals into gas wells in 13 states, according to the...
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