Posted on 04/17/2014 8:44:54 AM PDT by Hostage
The firm takeaway from the above is a federal shutdown of a large oil strike and a federal military like convoy on an interstate a day later out of the region of the oil strike that was reported to have been shutdown and taken over.
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A new national monument by executive order?
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One reported fact regarding the federal convoy on I-94 is of helicopters circling overhead around the convoy. I know it sounds like black helicopters that is mockingly used by those that laugh at conspiracy nuts. But my partner reported that not only where there multiple multiple gunships on the ground but also helicopters circling overhead. My partner does not drink and drive and he doesn’t do drugs for what it’s worth.
I will refer to our resident expert, but the Bakken shale formation does not produce oil that just “gushes out of control.” You have to go get it.
I will follow up when I get home.
Access to VERY interested and involved parties there.
This will NOT be quiet for long.
That was before the internet and keeping this quiet, if there is anything to it, will be infinitely more difficult.
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I agree but this may be an exception. It may also be misreported.
But one thing is for sure, a large militarized federal convoy, not the US Army, was followed a day later on I-94 just outside the area of the reported strike.
When you gunships, you mean MRAPs? Big armored trucks from Iraq/Afgh?
If they are going to exploit something like you describe, they will do it entirely using contractors.
The chances of this being accomplished in secrecy are approximately zero, at least for more than a week or two.
If they are just going to lock it up, fine. But are they going to lock everything up everywhere? Strikes me as unlikely.
They need the tax revenues too much.
That was the impression. We will try and confirm this weekend when he gets home from driving.
If there is an ocean of oil there, more than one rig can access it. In order to restrict it they would have to create broad restrictions that’s would be noticable.
If the wells/discovery were made on private property, the Feds have no jurisdiction. The oil beneath the privately owned land is owned by the private owners of the mineral rights and their ‘Lessee’s”, the Oil companies, drilling the well under lease agreements signed between the mineral rights owners and the oil companies. This is well established in property and oil & gas law.
If the wells/discovery was on Federal lands, typically administered by the Bureau of Land Managment or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then anything is possible. Those wells would have likewise been drilled by authority granted under lease agreements signed between the BLM and the Oil Companies, but it is conceivable that the Gov’t could simply unilaterally abrogate those agreements and leave the aggreived parties, the oil companies to seek redress in the Gov’t’s Courts.
Of course, in the perfect “Statist’s” world, the “citizen” owns nothing and all resources and land are owned by the State as was the case in the USSR. In Canada, all minerals and, I think water, are owned by the Crown.
There’s little doubt in my mind that the Obamanistas have discussed amongst themselves the possibility of nationalizing the Oil Companies, much as Mexico did in the 1920’s. I’m not quite sure what’s stopped them; they may be waiting for a national emergency to do so.
It was reported or misreported that the drill site and oil find would be made part of the strategic petroleum reserve.
That could mean it will be locked up. I would speculate that the environmentalists that control Obama will want it locked up.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve does not include any production fields.
It is only salt dome storage of oil that has already been produced and processed to remove water, gas, etc.
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