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Tennessee Not Alone in Public Land Fracking Debate
2013-09-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tennessean: Environmental activists chalked it up as a victory when the University of Tennessee failed this month to receive any bids for a natural gas drilling project on an 8,600-acre publicly owned research forest. The prospect of drilling for natural gas and the controversial practice to extract it known as fracking set off intense debate in the state about how best to use public land and resources, particularly in the universitys Cumberland Forest. But Tennessee residents arent alone in grappling...
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