Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here. Nikiforuk's ...

Environmentalists and academics alike welcomed the latest report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which confirms a link between hydraulic fracturing for natural gas —or fracking— to ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to ...

Albertans have major worries about the amount of water used by the oil industry in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas and also want more protection for lakes threatened by blue ...

New Brunswick's energy minister says he's not bothered by a Nova Scotia plan to ban the importation of hydraulic fracking waste water, and is suggesting new treatment plants could be opened in New ...

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While scientists and area residents have been sounding the alarm about the health impacts of shale gas drilling for years, recent studies, a legal decision and public health advocates are bringing ...

A pair of environmental groups allege the B.C. government is skirting its own laws by allowing energy firms to spend years using large quantities of fresh water for natural-gas extraction without ...

Despite worries over increased use of hydraulic fracturing for gas extraction in B.C., there is little evidence that fracking poses a significant environmental threat, free-market think-tank the ...

Calgary resident Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here ...

Off and on for over ten years, thousands of comments have been submitted to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to oppose the leasing of the Wayne National Forest for unconventional oil and gas ...