100,000 Acres of Public Land in Colorado at Risk From Fracking, Groups File Administrative Protest

EcoWatch
Apr 11, 2017, 3:38 pm107 pts
Conservation groups have filed Tuesday an administrative protest challenging a federal decision to offer for leasing in June more than 100,000 acres of federal public land in northern Colorado for oil and gas industry fracking . The leasing decision, being pushed by the Trump administration's Bureau of Land…

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