WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 —The U.S. Forest Service today released a management plan that protects the vast majority of Virginia’s George Washington National Forest from oil and gas development.
While early news reports focused on the fact that the Forest Service will allow fracking in parts of the George Washington National Forest, it actually protects all of the national forest from oil and gas development with the exceptions of land currently leased (1 percent of land…
