If Obama or Hillary were Prez, this find would be placed off limits, after the government jerked around would be bidders and explorers for 3 to 5 years.
This find is worth billions of dollars obviously... I am sure that those who discovered it, held off he announcement until they had their ducks in a row. If Hillary had been elected this would have meant hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the “Clinton Foundation”.
Oh I’m sure McConnell is laying the groundwork for blocking development progress upon seeing this news.
Oil exploration teams are discovering major oil fields faster than President Obama can place areas off limits to exploration.
They probably found it a couple of years ago, and kept it secret for this very reason.