Posted on 08/20/2017 9:53:51 AM PDT by rktman
Millions of acres worth of requests for oil speculation on federal lands were submitted in Nevada just years before former President Barack Obama designated two national monuments in the state, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) found Friday.
Expression of Interest (EOI) documents are submitted to state Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agencies for any parcel of federal land that prospectors think may produce oil. The BLM is then required by law to study the area and decide whether it should be leased to an oil company for development.
The Nevada EOIs are mostly worthless and a waste of taxpayer money, however, according to CBD Nevada state director, Patrick Donnelly.
CBD is using the information as evidence President Donald Trump’s review of national monument designations, and its potential to roll back some of those, is “a complete sham,” Donnelly told TheDCNF.
Just drill horizontal from another state.
By the time the lazy worthless bastards at the BLM get to their study, we will all be living on Mars.
Don’t you mean ruining Mars? ;-)
Know what they say...earth first, we will get to the others later.
The eastern region of Nevada has extensive shale formations that are complex, undeveloped, and not fully explored. The year of peak interest in leases there (2014) roughly coincides with the height of the speculative boom in US shale oil exploration.
Follow the money.
What is that loser doing these days, what is his name? Oh, yeah, Harry Reid.
Well, ‘Ol Harry is not on a treadmill I’m sure.
Try overturning the national parks designaton given for $500,000 contribution to the Bill & Hillary slush fund for the cleanest coal in the world
Try overturning the national parks designaton given for $500,000 contribution to the Bill & Hillary slush fund for the cleanest coal in the world
I have no doubt that if there’s a scam, Harry Reid is running it.
This is how Rockefeller became rich. He went into West Virginia and offered HUGE money for the mineral right say if the struck oil the landowner would become rich. He offered little for the coal in the contract and of course it was the coal he was after.
What about water? In the desert, water is a good as gold.
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