Perhaps. But I’ll go for the other explanation. When Dingy Harry and the Chinese company were starting to get dragged in by people doing the work that the media should have been doing all along, the Company ran like a cockroach. So Harry called it off.
You are correct. This is the “feint” head fake of Reid and company, with his former chief aided heading up BLM the relationship continues on other BLM land. In Nevada... that is a hell of a lot of land as a percentage of Federal vs. private owned. Technically the Nevada land is “state” owned and BLM managed— but it amounts to a cartel of graft.
What’s more, the purported “endangered” tortoises excuse— well BLM has allowed “culling” of the highly recovered overpopulated tortoises that are no longer endangered. The entire topic is a ruse.
Reid was just quoted as a “tough guy” that people can’t “violate the law” (speaking of Mr. Bundy, the rancher) and expect to get away with it. This from the “cowboy poet” funding bill sponsor (yeah, we know Harry— “Brokeback Mtn.”
cowboys, the kind you like tooty frooty). This is a power struggle of different levels of Mormon corrupt statists and greedheads— using our Federal dollars— no surprise.