Vermont (credit: Wikipedia)
Here's something we didn't know, or if we did, we had long forgotten: The state of Vermont actually has a hefty layer of Utica Shale rock underneath it. Although there's likely no (or very little) oil in that part of the Utica, according to State Geologist Laurence Becker, "natural gas likely exists in large quantities" in the Utica layer of Vermont. And yet there's no way to access it because the state banned fracking back in 2012 (see Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Fracking).
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