[RinaseaofDs]

We still have a department of energy, and a ton of redundant oversight on this issue. Frankly, it’s a market issue more than an issue requiring regulation and oversight.

I hope the next move is the reclassification of 1000’s of square miles of ‘wilderness’ to be open to drilling and development. (Mining of rare earths, for example).

[justrepublican]

Whack a mole.The fed can't stop oil development in ND because most of the land is private. Now F&W pushes the effort and wants to use offshore oil and gas revenue to fund this new program which will exclude land for resource development.

http://www.fws.gov/audubon/grasslands/dgca_lpp_fact_sheet_web.pdf