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 university’s Cumberland Forest. But Tennessee residents aren’t alone in grappling......
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Tennessee Not Alone in Public Land Fracking Debate
Posted by Tennessean: Duane W. Gang on September 30th, 2013
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