Friday October 30 2015  Jack Loughran, news reporter Fracking rule amendments ‘sneaked in’ says Greenpeace As someone who used to work as a content writer for the fracking industry, I have a fair amount of knowledge on the issue and this is a very bad idea. In America, where fracking has taken off in a big way, the industry has generated some major catastrophes already, in states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas. Greedy operators who force too much water down the wells to boost extraction rates have ended up breaching the water tables and damaging them irreversibly. … Continue reading E&T news weekly #68 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week