Researchers studying hydraulic fracturing have answered a longstanding question over how the practice can sometimes cause moderate earthquakes and may be able to use their model to forecast when ...

B.C.'s Oil and Gas Commission has suspended fracking operations in an area southeast of Fort St. John until at least 2019 while regulators investigate a series of earthquakes measuring between 3.4 and ...

With thousands of wells and counting, the Northeast region of British Columbia is one of Canada’s most important hubs of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking – the process of blasting pressurized liquid ...

Chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process — commonly called fracking — were of particular concern to Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan in his last report as auditor of Canadian ...

Scientists from the federal government, regulatory agencies and Canadian universities have unearthed a deeper understanding of the link between fracking and earthquakes in a major ...

New research suggests that hydraulic fracking of oil and gas wells is behind earthquakes caused by humans in Western Canada. A study, published Tuesday by a group of top Canadian researchers, says ...

EDMONTON – New research suggests that hydraulic fracking of oil and gas wells is behind human-caused earthquakes in western Canada. The study, published Tuesday by a group of top Canadian researchers, ...

Understanding shale oil and the controversial practice of 'fracking' Published March 13, 2015 The Globe and Mail's Sherrill Sutherland explains what is shale oil, how it is drilled and why it's ...