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$Employees of an oil and gas company work on a natural gas valve at a hydraulic fracturing site. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)$

Study: No Link Between Fracking & Contamination

A University of Texas study says there’s no direct link between groundwater contamination and a controversial process to extract oil and gas known as fracking.

2012/02/17

EPA Eyes Link Between Fracking & Pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution.

2011/12/08

A drilling rig is seen on September 29, 2010 near Ray, North Dakota. (credit: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Lewisville ISD Considering Preemptive Gas Drilling Move

While the Lewisville School Board doesn’t want gas wells near schools in the district, the board will vote on a backup plan Monday night.

2011/11/14

Salt Water Disposal Well Fire In Wise County

The North Texas weather may have been the cause of a massive fire in Wise County. At around 8:30 Tuesday morning a lightning strike is suspected of starting a fire at a salt water disposal well.

2011/11/08

A drilling rig explores for gas. (credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Barnett Shale Drilling Wanes, Booms Elsewhere

Drilling is at a seven-year low in the North Texas natural gas fields. But even as drilling pace slackens in the Barnett Shale, it’s booming in other oil and gas fields of Texas such as the Permian Basin of West Texas and the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas.

2011/10/23

Gas Drilling Company Recycling “Fracking” Water

The natural gas drilling process has been saddled with great debate — mainly concerning the environmental impact. But one “fracking” company is actually putting back what they take out.

2011/10/13

Denton Police Investigating Water Pumping At Gas Well Site

It’s a gas well site operators say they’ve never drilled and never fracked. But a Denton city inspector found it suddenly alive last week.

2011/10/07

A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site. (credit: AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)

Report: Barnett Shale Accounts For 40 Percent Of Economic Growth In Past 10 Years

Natural gas companies have only been drilling the Barnett Shale for a decade, but the amount of economic activity that generates annually has already sailed past what aircraft manufacturing and transportation bring to the region, the Fort Worth City Council was told Tuesday.

2011/09/27