The Latest Breaking News from Fracking

Buried deep in the Beetaloo Basin, it's estimated there is enough shale gas to power Australia for 300 years if the industry can work out how to frack it safely. Now, the industry is considering re-injecting wastewater into deep saline aquifers.

The UK government recently conceded that the reasons for its 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing “have not gone away,” and there is “no compelling evidence” to support rethinking it. Better known as fracking, this industrial process injects millions of gallons of water underground at high pressure to release fossil gas…

Colombia's anti-fracking activists are facing increased threats and violence as two investigative pilot projects to extract oil and gas from unconventional fields move forward, five campaigners said, with some forced to flee in fear for their lives.

Darwin researchers believed they would be awarded a contract to study prawn-like species in a major Northern Territory gas field earmarked for fracking. A government decision not to do so has now been referred to ICAC.