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Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest
2014-11-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its woods off-limits to drilling. The decision was highly anticipated because about half of the George Washington National Forest sits atop the Marcellus shale formation, a vast underground deposit of natural gas that runs from upstate New York to West Virginia and yields more than $10 billion in gas a year....
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