fracking
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Powerful, faraway quakes can trigger tremors around US oil and gas fields, study suggests
New research indicates oil and gas drilling operations may make fault zones sensitive to shock waves from distant big quakes.
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Industry giant GE aims to improve fracking
Company has invested more than US$15 billion in the past few years
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Quebec’s minority goverment tables shale-gas moratorium bill
The moratorium would last for five years or until new regulations on shale gas exploration are in place.
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Talisman exits Poland’s flagging shale gas hunt
Canadian energy firm is the second such company to abandon the hunt for shale gas in Poland
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Clark to take campaign to heart of BC’s oil and gas region
Bets her government’s future on shale gas
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US gas companies, environmentalists set voluntary standards for Northeast fracking
Newly formed Center for Sustainable Shale Development to perform environmental reviews of fracking operations for willing companies
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New fracking-friendly law to spark Poland shale rush
Poland has been the most aggressive in Europe in pursuing shale gas
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Dow Chemical restarts Louisiana ethylene plant
The St. Charles plant, which was idled in January 2009, is expected to deliver a $150 million increase in EBITDA in 2013.
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UK gov’t gives approval to resume fracking on home soil
Shale gas exploration had been suspended in Britain last year after series of small tremors
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Ottawa sued over Quebec fracking ban
Lone Pine Resources Inc., which is incorporated in Delaware but headquartered in Calgary, has filed notice that it intends to sue
